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Step 1 – CCB

  1. Login to your CCB account. NOTE: You will need to login as an administrator (or as someone with admin privileges) to create a new API user.
  2. Click on ‘Settings’ (Gear Icon). Click on ‘API’.
  3. You will see the API summary screen. Click on ‘Add a new API User’ (located to the right of the summary screen).
  4. You will see the New API user form. Complete the form with the required information. NOTE: CCB passwords can only be characters and numbers (no special characters) with at least one number.
  5. Make a note of your API username and password. You will need it later.
  6. Click ‘Save’ (located at the bottom, right-hand corner of the form).
  7. You will again see the API summary screen. Click on the ‘Users’ tab.
  8. Select your user from the list of users. Click on the ‘Services’ tab.
  9. You will see a list of services. You need to select the services which will allow CCB and CCBchimp to communicate correctly. Select each of these 10 services:

    Execute_search,
    group_profiles,
    group_profile_from_id,
    group_participants,
    search_list,
    create_individual,
    individual_search,
    remove_individual_from_group,
    add_individual_to_group

  10. Click ‘Save’ (located at the bottom, right-hand corner of the services list).
  11. You will see the API summary screen. Look at the line ‘Your API URL’. Make a note of your account name. This is the word between the double slash and the ‘.ccbchurch’. For example, in the URL “https://multisite.ccbchurch.com/api.php”, the account name is “multisite”.