Getting more data from your attendees has never been more important. With our built-in Marketo integration, you can register attendees from a Marketo form and have the data automatically appear in Accelevents.
Note: This integration is only available for Scale, Professional, Enterprise, and White Label accounts.
There are three key parts to setting up the Marketo integration:
Configuring the Integration in Accelevents
This step will allow you to connect your Marketo account to Accelevents.
Log in with either your organization or white label account. (can be accessed from the bottom left corner of any event page connected to an Organizer Profile)
Go to the Integrations tab and click Connect under the Marketo logo to begin.
Click New authentication from the pop-up window.
A window within the pop-up will appear. You will need to enter the following details from your Marketo account:
API endpoint domain
Client ID
Client Secret
To get the API endpoint domain, log in to your Marketo account, then go to Admin > Web Services. Inside the REST API box, copy the Endpoint, make sure you DO NOT include the tail end
/restpart.
To get the Client ID and Client Secret, go to Admin > Launch Point in your Marketo account, then select the service you intend to use and select View Details. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret from the pop-up.
Enter all the keys from the previous pop-up then click Create. Make sure there are no extra spaces, it will still accept it with extra space, but your integration will not work.
Click Next
Set up your field mapping. Once complete, click Next.
It is important to note that the current version of the integration only allows for the following fields to be mapped from your event registration form:
Email
First Name
Last Name
Cell Phone
Prefix
Billing Address
Shipping Address
Gender
Birthday
Age
Organization
Job title
Image
Disclaimer
Note: If you're adding the Disclaimer responses to the mapping, the Marketo Property should be Description.
After you click Next, you will see a Marketo to Accelevents Public URL. Copy that URL and paste it somewhere because you will use that later for setting up a webhook. Click Finish.
After mapping your fields, the button under Marketo will turn green - click on Enable to finalize the integration.
You can always click the green button again to disable this integration. When you do, the button will turn red.
If you want to redo the whole process and map additional fields, click on the edit icon.
To link a different Marketo account or reset everything, click on the trash icon to confirm deleting the configuration.
Setting up a Webhook in Marketo
Login to your Marketo account, go to Admin > Field Management, then click New Custom Field.
Create 2 new custom fields for API Key and Ticket Type Id
Custom Field 1 - API Key:
Object: Person
Type: String
Name: API Key
API Name: this will automatically populate once you add a name
Custom Field 2 - Ticket Type Id:
Object: Person
Type: Integer
Name: Ticket Type Id
API Name: this will automatically populate once you add a name
Go to Admin > Webhooks, then click New Webhook
Create a Webhook and ensure it contains the following values:
URL: Paste the Marketo Webhook URL you copied in the previous step.
Request type: POST
Template:
lead_id={{lead.Id}}&api_key={{lead.api_key}}&ticket_type_id={{lead.ticketTypeId}}Request Token Encoding: Form/Url
Response type: JSON
Click Create.
Create a New Program if you don't have one yet. The easiest way to do this is to register for your event. It will automatically create a new program in Marketo once a ticket is bought. You will find the new program under Marketing Activities > Program_Events. The new program will have the same event name. This will also test if the steps you did above were correct.
If you don't want to register, you can follow these steps below:
Go to Marketing Activities
Click the Program_Events folder
Click New
Click New Program
Enter the New Program details, then click Create.
Campaign Folder: Program Events
Name: enter the name of your event
Program Type: Event
Channel: Live Event
AAA: Test
Test tag: aa
Next, you will need to create a form for your program.
Go to your program
Click New > New Local Asset
Select Form from the pop-up
Enter a name (e.g. Event Form)
Click Create
Once you click Create, it will open a new tab where you can edit your form. You have to design a form with these mandatory fields:
First Name
Last Name
Email Address
Ticket Type Id
API Key
If you want to add other fields then you can. Do not save it yet, you will need to get your API Key and Ticket Type Id then paste in it there.
Copy the API Key and Ticket Type Id from your Accelevents Admin Console
Go to Settings > Integrations
Enable Tray Integration
Select the Ticket Type. This may take some time to load. If it does not load, move to another tab then go back to the Integrations tab.
Copy both keys generated on the right side
API Key is the one on top
Ticket Type Id is the one below
Go back to your Marketo form editor page to paste in the Ticket Type Id and API Key
Click the Ticket Type Id field
Change the Field Type to Hidden
Click Edit on Autofill
Paste the Ticket Type ID in Default Value
Click Save
Do the same for API Key
Click Finish, Approve and Close when you're done.
Go back to your Marketo account and create a new list
Go to Marketing Activities
Look for the program you created
Click New > New Local Asset
Click List
Enter a name (e.g. Event List)
Click Create
Create a smart campaign for your program
Click New > New Local Asset
Click Smart Campaign
Enter a name (e.g. Event SMart Campaign)
Click Create
After creating the Smart Campaign, go to your Smart Campaign tab on the left side navigation
Smart List
Click Smart List
Drag Fills Out Form from the right side to the center
Select the form which you have created in the previous steps.
Flow
Click Flow
Drag Add to List and Call Webhook to the center
Select the List and the Webhook you previously created.
Schedule
Click Schedule
Click Edit under Smart Campaign Settings
Select every time in the pop-up
Click Save
Click Activate
With that, you've completed setting up the import of registrations to Accelevents!
Testing the Importing of Registrations from Marketo to Accelevents
Embed the Marketo form to your website
Go to Marketing Activities
Look for your event under Program_Events
Click the arrow on your event then select Event Form
Click Form Actions
Click Embed Code
Copy the code from the pop-up
Paste the code to your website
Access your website, fill out the form and submit.
Check the Attendees > Orders tab in your Accelevents Admin Console. The new submission should appear there.
Check Event List > People in your program in Marketo. The new submission should appear there.
