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ActiveCampaign is an email marketing and automation platform. The ActiveCampaign connector lets your Lovable app manage contacts, mailing lists, campaigns, and audience segments. It’s designed for apps that work with an ActiveCampaign account you already use. ActiveCampaign is available as an app + chat connector: one shared connection that works in the project chat while you build and in your published apps. With ActiveCampaign, your app can:
  • Search for contacts and create or update their details
  • Create mailing lists and subscribe or unsubscribe contacts
  • Create and edit campaign drafts, schedule campaigns, and read performance totals
  • Create and update audience segments and find matching contacts
Creating a contact does not subscribe it to a mailing list. To send marketing email to new signups, subscribe them to a list after they consent.
For signup confirmations, password resets, receipts, and internal notifications, use the built-in Lovable Emails. Use ActiveCampaign when your app needs the contacts, lists, campaigns, or segments in your ActiveCampaign account.

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Common use cases and example apps

These examples show what you can build with ActiveCampaign, each with a prompt to start from.

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How to connect ActiveCampaign

Who can create ActiveCampaign connections depends on your plan and workspace settings. App + chat connectors are available by default. On Business and Enterprise plans, Who can create connections and clients starts at Admins. Some Enterprise workspaces start at No one, which disables the connector. An admin or owner changes it in Connectors → Admin settings → App + chat connectors. You can create multiple ActiveCampaign connections for different accounts, such as a test account and your production account. When the connection is created, you can link it to the projects where you want to use it. Anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in the project chat to link their project to it.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting ActiveCampaign, make sure you have:
  • An ActiveCampaign account with access to Settings → Developer
  • Your ActiveCampaign API URL on api-us1.com and the API key from the same account
  • Permission to create connections in your Lovable workspace (see Who can create connections and clients)
ActiveCampaign bills your account directly. Your ActiveCampaign plan determines contact limits, email sending limits, and segmentation features.

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Step 1: Get your ActiveCampaign API URL and key

Your API URL identifies the account to connect. Your API key gives Lovable access through your ActiveCampaign user account.
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Open your ActiveCampaign account

Sign in to the ActiveCampaign account you want to connect.
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Open Developer settings

Go to Settings → Developer.
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Copy the API URL and key

Copy the API URL and Key shown on the page. Use the full API URL provided by ActiveCampaign, rather than your account’s sign-in address.Each ActiveCampaign user has their own key. If you delete that user or reset their key, update the credentials in Lovable.
Your API key functions like a password. Keep it secure and enter it only in the connection form, not in the project chat.
See ActiveCampaign’s guide to finding your API URL and key for more information.

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Step 2: Connect ActiveCampaign to Lovable

Use the API URL and key from the same ActiveCampaign account in the connection form.
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Open ActiveCampaign in Connectors

Open Connectors and select ActiveCampaign. For the other places to open the catalog from, see Where to find connectors.
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Add a connection

Click Connect on the connector page. The form is split into collapsible sections, Details, Configure connection, and Sharing.
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Name the connection

Under Details, Lovable fills in a name for the connection, which you can change. The name is only used inside Lovable to identify the connection.
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Configure the connection

Under Configure connection, enter both required fields:
  1. API URL: paste your account’s API URL, such as https://youraccount.api-us1.com.
  2. API key: paste the key from Settings → Developer.
The form accepts the API URL with or without the /api/3 suffix.
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Choose who can use this connection

Under Sharing, the connection is private to you by default and shows a Private label. To share it, click Share with others. Then add workspace members by email, or click Invite entire workspace to make the connection available to everyone in your Lovable workspace.See Who can use connections and clients for more information.
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Connect

Click Connect at the bottom of the form. Lovable verifies the credentials against the ActiveCampaign API before saving the connection.If the credentials are rejected, Lovable does not create the connection. Configure connection reopens with the error. Check that the API URL and key belong to the same account.
When connected, anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in the project chat to link their project to ActiveCampaign (based on configured connection-level access). Your Lovable apps can then work with your contacts, lists, campaigns, and segments.

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Limitations

The ActiveCampaign connector cannot:
  • Connect to API URLs outside api-us1.com.
  • Change the account API URL on an existing connection. Create a new connection to use a different account.
  • Support per-end-user ActiveCampaign login. Each connection represents a single ActiveCampaign account shared across all projects linked to it.

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Manage your ActiveCampaign connection

Connections are managed from Connectors: select ActiveCampaign, then open the connection.
  • Unlink projects to remove ActiveCampaign access from specific projects while keeping the connection available for others. See Unlink projects from a connection for the steps.
  • Delete the connection to remove it from the workspace entirely. Deleting is permanent. It removes the credentials from all linked projects, and app features that use ActiveCampaign stop working until a new connection is added. See Delete a connection for the steps and who can delete.