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To use or connect to the CRM-Map API you will first need to create a API Key to attach to all your API requests.

API Keys have the same access as an Administrator level user. Be careful who you give them to. They can be revoked at any time.
To use the CRM-Map’s API, some general API knowledge and skills is assumed.
The API uses simple HTTP POST/GET/DELETE calls, passing the data in a JSON Format

Creating New API Keys

To create a new API Key, you will need to

Go to maps.crm-map.com
Sign in to your company using an account that has administrator access
Select the Setup Menu
Select the Import/Export Menu Item
Select Create New API Key

A new API Key will be created and added to the list of your API Keys.

Using API Keys

To use the key it can be

Added to the HTTP request URL

http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/products?apikey=yourapikeyhere
Added to the HTTP Header

Content-Type: application/json;
apikey: yourapikeyhere
Added to the JSON Data in the request body

POST http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/status
{
“apikey”:“yourapikeyhere”,
“text”:“New Status Text”,
“color”:“#FF0000”
}

API URLs and functions

The table below show the current (v1) functions included in the CRM-Map API

Products

http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/products(verb)

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Examples

List all products, Example URL: http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/products/?apikey=yourapikeyhere

Product Code is currently repeated twice in the data format, this is likely to change in newer versions

{
 "draw": 1,
 "recordsTotal": 3,
 "recordsFiltered": 3,
 "data": [
            [ "Product Code", "Category", "Product Code", "Name", "" ],
            [ "nexus7", "Google Devices", "nexus7", "Nexus 7", "" ],
            [ "s6", "Samsung Devices", "s6", "Samsung Galaxy S6", ""]
         ],
 "info": []
}

Get, Create,Update a single product, Example URL: http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/products/s6?apikey=yourapikeyhere

{
 "code": "s6",
 "category": "Samsung Devices",
 "name": "Samsung Galaxy S6",
 "description": "A phone from samsung, made in is galaxy",
 "value": 299.99,
 "CustomFields": {
       "released": "2015"
 }
}

Contacts

http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/contacts(verb)

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Example

List all Contacts, Example GET URL: http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/contacts?apikey=yourapikeyhere

Contact Code is currently repeated twice in the data format, this is likely to change in newer versions

{
 "draw": 1,
 "recordsTotal": 172,
 "recordsFiltered": 172,
 "data": [
           ["Contact Code","Contact Code", "Contact Name", "Suburb","" ],
           ["10","10", "Willunga General Store", "Willunga", ""]
         ],
 "info": []
}

Get a single contact, Example GET URL: http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/contacts/1?apikey=yourapikeyhere

{
 "contactcode": "1",
 "name": "Accede",
 "address": "23 North Tec Hacknet South Australia",
 "locationid": 643,
 "CustomFields": {
      "telephone": "1234 3455",
      "last-contacted": "",
      "next-visit": "",
      "comments": ""
 }
}

Update or Create a single contact, Example POST URL: http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/contacts/1?apikey=yourapikeyhere

Only an address or locationid field needs to be used. If the address field is used, a new location will be created.
The new location id will be returned in the POST result.

Custom Fields can be omitted if they not used.

All fields are optional except for Contact Code and Name.

{
 "contactcode": "1",
 "name": "Accede",
 "address": "23 North Tec Hacknet South Australi Australia",
 "locationid": 643,
 "CustomFields": {
      "telephone": "555 5 5123",
      "last-contacted": "",
      "next-visit": "",
      "comments": ""
 }
}

Transactions

http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/transactions(verb)

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Create a single transaction, Example POST URL: http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/transactions?apikey=yourapikeyhere

Only an Address, LocationId, or ContactId is required. CRM-Map will get the address of which every field is provided.
To remove a product from a transaction, with out deleting and recreating the transaction, set the products qty to 0 (Zero)

{
 "Statusid": "1",
 "Products": {
       "1234": "1",
       "ProductCode": "qty"
             },
 "address": "23 North Tec\nHacknet\nSouth Australia 5000\nAustralia",
 "locationid": 643,
 "contactid": 444,
 "CustomFields": {}
}

Status

http://maps.crm-map.com/api.php/status/(verb)

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