ActiveCampaign

ActiveCampaign is a leading customer experience automation platform, offering email marketing, marketing automation, and CRM tools to help businesses engage and grow their audience.

Power end-to-end data operations for your ActiveCampaign API with Nexla. Our bi-directional ActiveCampaign connector is purpose-built for ActiveCampaign, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to ActiveCampaign or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your ActiveCampaign workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating an ActiveCampaign credential in Nexla, you need to obtain your API URL and API key from your ActiveCampaign account. These credentials authenticate Nexla with the ActiveCampaign API and should be kept secure.

1. Sign in to your ActiveCampaign account.

2. Navigate to My Settings by clicking your account icon in the upper right corner and selecting Settings from the dropdown menu.

3. Click on the Developer tab to access the developer settings page.

4. On the Developer page, locate the API Access section. This section displays your API credentials.

5. Copy your API URL. This is a unique URL specific to your ActiveCampaign account that serves as the base URL for all API requests. The API URL typically follows the format https://[your-account].api-us1.com or similar, depending on your account's data center.

6. Copy your API Key. This key authenticates API requests and provides access to your ActiveCampaign account data. The API key is a long alphanumeric string.

   Your API URL and API Key are unique to your ActiveCampaign account and should be kept secure. Do not share these credentials publicly or commit them to version control systems. If you suspect your API key has been compromised, regenerate it immediately in your ActiveCampaign account settings.

For additional information about ActiveCampaign API authentication and credential management, see the ActiveCampaign API documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API URL	Yes	No	Your API URL can be found in your account on the My Settings page under the "Developer" tab.
API Key	Yes	Yes	Your API Key can be found in your account on the My Settings page under the "Developer" tab.

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – ActiveCampaign

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your ActiveCampaign API URL in the API URL field. This should be the complete base URL for your ActiveCampaign account's API, typically in the format https://[your-account].api-us1.com or similar. You can find this URL in your ActiveCampaign account under My Settings → Developer → API Access.

4. Enter your ActiveCampaign API key in the API Key field. This key authenticates Nexla with the ActiveCampaign API and should match the API key obtained from your ActiveCampaign account settings. The API key is sent in the Api-Token header for all API requests.

   The API key provides full access to your ActiveCampaign account data through the API. Keep your API key secure and do not share it publicly or commit it to version control systems. ActiveCampaign uses the API key in the Api-Token header for authentication, which allows Nexla to make authenticated requests to your account.

5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the ActiveCampaign connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the ActiveCampaign instance, and click Next; or, create a new ActiveCampaign credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common ActiveCampaign endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

List Resources

This endpoint retrieves a paginated list of resources from your ActiveCampaign account. Use this endpoint when you need to fetch multiple records of a specific resource type, such as contacts, deals, campaigns, or accounts.

• Select the resource type you want to retrieve from the Resource Type dropdown menu. Available options include Accounts, Campaigns, Contacts, Deals, Groups, and Users.
• The endpoint uses offset-based pagination, automatically fetching additional pages as needed. By default, the endpoint retrieves up to 100 records per page, starting from offset 0.
• The endpoint will return all records of the selected resource type, organized into pages for efficient data retrieval.

This endpoint supports pagination through offset and limit parameters. Nexla automatically handles pagination to retrieve all available records. For detailed information about ActiveCampaign API pagination and available resource types, see the ActiveCampaign API documentation.

Get Resource By ID

This endpoint retrieves detailed information about a specific resource by its unique identifier. Use this endpoint when you need to fetch complete details for a single account, campaign, contact, deal, group, or user.

• Select the resource type you want to retrieve from the Resource Type dropdown menu. Available options include Account, Campaign, Contact, Deal, Group, and User.
• Enter the unique identifier (ID) of the resource you want to retrieve in the Resource ID field. Resource IDs are numeric values that uniquely identify each resource in your ActiveCampaign account.
• The endpoint will return the complete details for the specified resource, including all associated fields and metadata.

Resource IDs can be obtained by first using the "List Resources" endpoint to retrieve available resources and their corresponding IDs. For detailed information about retrieving specific resources, see the ActiveCampaign API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

ActiveCampaign data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid ActiveCampaign API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

ActiveCampaign API endpoints follow the pattern {API_URL}/api/3/{resource_type}, where {API_URL} is your account-specific API URL and {resource_type} is the type of resource you want to access. For a complete list of available ActiveCampaign API endpoints, see the ActiveCampaign API documentation.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new ActiveCampaign data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.

Use as a destination

Click the + icon on the Nexset that will be sent to the ActiveCampaign destination, and select the Send to Destination option from the menu. Select the ActiveCampaign connector from the list of available destination connectors, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the ActiveCampaign organization, and click Next; or, create a new ActiveCampaign credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure destinations to send data to common ActiveCampaign endpoints. Select the endpoint to which data will be sent from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Then, click on the template in the list below to expand it, and follow the instructions to configure additional endpoint settings.

Create Resource

This endpoint creates a new resource in your ActiveCampaign account. Use this endpoint when you need to create new accounts, contacts, deals, groups, or users from your Nexset data.

• Select the resource type you want to create from the Resource Type dropdown menu. Available options include Account, Contact, Deal, Group, and User.
• The endpoint will send the Nexset data as JSON in the request body to create the new resource. Ensure your Nexset contains all required fields for the selected resource type.
• Each record in the Nexset will be sent as a separate API request to create a new resource in ActiveCampaign.

The request body must contain valid JSON with all required fields for the selected resource type. For detailed information about required fields and data formats for each resource type, see the ActiveCampaign API documentation.

Update Resource

This endpoint updates an existing resource in your ActiveCampaign account. Use this endpoint when you need to modify existing accounts, contacts, deals, groups, or users based on your Nexset data.

• Select the resource type you want to update from the Resource Type dropdown menu. Available options include Account, Contact, Deal, Group, and User.
• Enter the unique identifier (ID) of the resource you want to update in the Resource ID field. Resource IDs are numeric values that uniquely identify each resource in your ActiveCampaign account.
• The endpoint will send the Nexset data as JSON in the request body to update the specified resource. Only fields included in the Nexset will be updated; other fields will remain unchanged.
• Each record in the Nexset will be sent as a separate API request to update the corresponding resource in ActiveCampaign.

Resource IDs can be obtained by first using the "List Resources" data source endpoint to retrieve available resources and their corresponding IDs. The request body must contain valid JSON with the fields you want to update. For detailed information about updating resources, see the ActiveCampaign API documentation.

Manual configuration

ActiveCampaign destinations can also be manually configured to send data to any valid ActiveCampaign API endpoint. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, data format, endpoint URL, request headers, attribute exclusions, record batching, and response webhooks.

ActiveCampaign API endpoints typically expect JSON format for request bodies. Endpoints follow the pattern {API_URL}/api/3/{resource_type} for create operations and {API_URL}/api/3/{resource_type}/{resource_id} for update operations, where {API_URL} is your account-specific API URL. For update/upsert operations, include the ID of the object to be updated at the end of the URL.

Save & activate

Once all endpoint settings have been configured, click the Done button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the destination. To send the data to the configured ActiveCampaign endpoint, open the destination resource menu, and select Activate.

The Nexset data will not be sent to the ActiveCampaign endpoint until the destination is activated. Destinations can be activated immediately or at a later time, providing full control over data movement.