Less Annoying CRM

Less Annoying CRM is a simple contact- and pipeline-management CRM built for small businesses, covering contacts, leads, tasks, and pipeline items. The Nexla connector uses the Less Annoying CRM v2 API to ingest CRM records such as contacts, tasks, notes, events, and pipeline items, and to create or update contacts and tasks.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Less Annoying CRM API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Less Annoying CRM connector is purpose-built for Less Annoying CRM, 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 Less Annoying CRM or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Less Annoying CRM 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 a Less Annoying CRM credential, you need an API key generated from your Less Annoying CRM account. The v2 API authenticates each request with an API key sent in the Authorization header, and all requests are made to the https://api.lessannoyingcrm.com/v2 endpoint.

To generate an API key, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your Less Annoying CRM account.

2. Open your account Settings by clicking your profile name in the top-right corner, then select the API section (or navigate directly to https://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/settings/api).

3. Click Create New API Key.

4. Set the permissions for the key so that it can read, create, edit, or delete the CRM data required for your use case.

5. Click Copy to copy the generated key, and store it securely.

API keys are encrypted in storage and cannot be retrieved after they are created. Copy the key when it is first generated, and if it is lost or compromised, create a new key from the API settings.

For details about authentication and available functions, see the Less Annoying CRM API documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Authenticate to Less Annoying CRM.

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key	Yes	Yes	API key used to authenticate requests to the Less Annoying CRM API.

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.

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 Less Annoying CRM API key in the API Key field. This key is sent in the Authorization header to authenticate requests to the Less Annoying CRM v2 API and must be kept confidential.

   If your API key is compromised, create a new key in the API section of your Less Annoying CRM account settings and update the credential in Nexla. For more information, see the Less Annoying CRM API documentation.

4. 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 Less Annoying CRM connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Less Annoying CRM instance, and click Next; or, create a new Less Annoying CRM 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 Less Annoying CRM 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.

[Rest API] List Users

Retrieve users.

• This endpoint template returns the users in your Less Annoying CRM account. Use it to ingest the list of user records for reporting or to resolve user references on other objects.

[Rest API] List Contacts

Retrieve contacts.

• This endpoint template returns contact and company records from your Less Annoying CRM account. Results are paginated, and Nexla automatically fetches subsequent pages until no further records are returned.

[Rest API] List Teams

Retrieve teams.

• This endpoint template returns the teams configured in your Less Annoying CRM account.

[Rest API] List Contact Events

Retrieve contact events.

• This endpoint template returns the calendar events attached to a specific contact. Provide the Contact Id of the contact whose events should be retrieved.

[Rest API] List Tasks

Retrieve tasks.

• This endpoint template returns tasks within a date range. Provide the Start Date and End Date that bound the tasks to be retrieved. Results are paginated, and Nexla automatically fetches subsequent pages until no further records are returned.

[Rest API] List Pipeline Items

Retrieve pipeline items.

• This endpoint template returns the items in a specific pipeline. Provide the Pipeline Id of the pipeline whose items should be retrieved. Results are paginated, and Nexla automatically fetches subsequent pages until no further records are returned.

[Rest API] List Notes

Retrieve notes.

• This endpoint template returns note records from your Less Annoying CRM account. Results are paginated, and Nexla automatically fetches subsequent pages until no further records are returned.

[Rest API] List Events

Retrieve events.

• This endpoint template returns calendar event records from your Less Annoying CRM account. Results are paginated, and Nexla automatically fetches subsequent pages until no further records are returned.

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

Less Annoying CRM data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Less Annoying CRM v2 API function, including functions 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.

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 Less Annoying CRM 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 Less Annoying CRM destination, and select the Send to Destination option from the menu. Select the Less Annoying CRM connector from the list of available destination connectors, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Less Annoying CRM account, and click Next; or, create a new Less Annoying CRM 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 Less Annoying CRM 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.

[Rest API] Create Contact

Creates a new contact or company record in Less Annoying CRM via the JSON-RPC CreateContact function.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to create a new contact or company. The record must contain the contact fields expected by the Less Annoying CRM CreateContact function.

[Rest API] Update Contact

Updates an existing contact or company record in Less Annoying CRM via the JSON-RPC EditContact function.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to update an existing contact or company. The record must include the identifier of the contact to update along with the fields to change.

[Rest API] Create Task

Creates a new task in Less Annoying CRM via the JSON-RPC CreateTask function.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to create a new task. The record must contain the task fields expected by the Less Annoying CRM CreateTask function.

Manual configuration

Less Annoying CRM destinations can also be manually configured to send data to any valid Less Annoying CRM v2 API function. 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.

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 Less Annoying CRM endpoint, open the destination resource menu, and select Activate.

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