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Ortto Webhooks

#Overview

You can use webhooks in Ortto to automatically send data back to your WP Fusion powered WordPress site.

Using webhooks, you can import new users on your WordPress site based on changes in Ortto, or update existing users’ meta data and tags.

Having trouble receiving webhooks? Check out our troubleshooting guide.

#Setup

In Ortto, head to More » Data Sources and click New Data Source.

Enter the URL to your site, with the access_key and wpf_action parameters (see below).

You can un-check the setting for Send activity payload. Otherwise leave the settings as their defaults.

Finally, head to Campaigns and create a new campaign. Select a trigger, and from the list of actions choose your webhook.

In this example we’re triggering the campaign when the WordPress User tag is applied to a subscriber. The tag triggers a webhook to import a new WordPress user and generate a password for them.

#Webhook URL parameters

You can format your webhook URL in a few different ways to customize the behavior. For each you will need to supply your access key, which can be obtained from the bottom of the main settings panel in your WP Fusion settings.

#To update a user’s tags

To update an existing WordPress user’s tags from the contact record, the URL for the webhook should look like the following:

https://mydomain.com/?wpf_action=update_tags&access_key=YOURACCESSKEY

#To update a user’s tags and meta data

To update a user’s tags and pull any new meta data from Ortto for that contact, the URL for the webhook should look like the following:

https://mydomain.com/?wpf_action=update&access_key=YOURACCESSKEY

#Create a new user

To create a new user, use the following URL:

https://mydomain.com/?wpf_action=add&access_key=YOURACCESSKEY

You can also specify additional parameters in user creation. For example, to send the user a welcome email containing a link to log in on your site, use the following:

https://mydomain.com/?wpf_action=add&access_key=YOURACCESSKEY&send_notification=true

You can also specify a specific user role to be assigned to the new user. For example, to set the new user to the “customer” role, use the following:

https://mydomain.com/?wpf_action=add&access_key=YOURACCESSKEY&role=customer

Note that you have to have registered a “customer” role on your site for this to work. By default users will be assigned the role of “subscriber”.

The add method will update a user if an existing user already exists. It will not create a duplicate user.

Note: By default, user accounts will be created with their email address as the username and a randomly generated password. However, if you have created a custom username field and password field in Ortto , and enabled these fields in WP Fusion for sync with user_login and user_pass on your website, the new users will be given the usernames and passwords stored in their Ortto contact record.

#User passwords

New user accounts will be created with an automatically generated password. If you’d like to use this password in your email marketing, you can send the password back to Ortto after it has been generated.

In the Webhooks section of the General settings tab, check the box for Return Password, and select a field in Ortto where the password should be stored.

After a new user is created, their automatically generated password will now be saved back to their contact record, and you can use a merge field to include it in an email. The username will be the contact’s email address.

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