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Collect contacts from your website

Send enquiries from your website straight into Miaalo, with no manual typing.

If your website has an enquiry or contact form, it can send every submission straight into Miaalo. You set it up once, and after that new contacts appear without anyone typing them in.

You will need help from whoever manages your website (a developer or agency). This page explains your part. Their part is in the API quick start, so you can send them that link.

What you need

  • API Keys in your menu. If it's missing, your account doesn't have API access yet. Email info@fairshare.tech to ask for it.
  • A source for the form's contacts, for example "Website enquiry".

Set it up

  1. Create a source for your website form. Miaalo automatically makes a source API key for it.
  2. Click API Keys in the menu. The Source API Key tab lists your keys. Find the row whose Title matches your source's name.
  3. Copy the value in the Key column.
  4. Send your developer the key and a link to the API quick start. It includes a ready-made form they can paste into your site.
API Keys page, Source API Key tab, with the key column marked
The API Keys page. Copy the key from the Key column. Keys are hidden in this picture.

Check that it works

  1. Fill in your website's form yourself, using your own name and mobile number.
  2. In Miaalo, open Contacts. You should be at the top of the list within a few seconds.
  3. Open Sources. The source's size has gone up by one.

Not there? See "Website form contacts aren't arriving" in Troubleshooting.

Is it safe to put the key on my website? Yes. A source API key can only add contacts to its sources. It can't read, change or delete anything. Never share your user API key, though. See API keys, explained.