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How to Automatically Add Facebook Leads as Insightly CRM Contacts

In this post, we will see how you can integrate Facebook Lead Ads with Insightly CRM and automatically add Facebook Leads as contacts on Insightly CRM.
This automation requires a one-time setup, for which we will use Pabbly Connect.
We will link Facebook Lead Ads with Pabbly Connect to capture the lead data, then link Pabbly Connect with Insightly CRM and send lead data to be added as contacts in Insightly CRM.

Steps to Automatically Add Facebook Leads as Insightly CRM Contacts

1. Sign In / Sign Up to Pabbly Connect and Create a Workflow
2. Establish a connection between Facebook Lead Ads and Pabbly Connect
3. Setup Insightly as the Action App

Step 1:- Sign In / Sign Up to Pabbly Connect and Create a Workflow

A. Sign In / Sign Up

To begin this process, visit Pabbly Connect and create your account by clicking on the ‘Sign Up Free’ button. You can also click on Sign In if you already have an account.

Click on the Pabbly Connect ‘Access Now’ button

B. Create Workflow

To create a new workflow, click the ‘Create Workflow’ button.

Name your workflow, and click on ‘Create’

Step 2:- Establish a connection between Facebook Lead Ads and Pabbly Connect

We will now look at the steps through which we will establish a link between Facebook Lead Ads and Pabbly Connect. This will help us to fetch the lead details from Facebook Form responses.

A. Trigger App

Trigger allows us to choose the application that will receive the data for Pabbly Connect. In our case, it would be Facebook Lead Ads.

Expand the trigger step, choose ‘Facebook Lead Ads’ as the Trigger App, and select ‘New Lead (Instant)’ as your Trigger Event. Click on ‘Connect’. Doing this will result in Facebook Lead Ads sending data directly to Pabbly Connect whenever a new lead is generated.

Select ‘Add New Connection’, and click on ‘Connect With Facebook Lead Ads’. Also, grant the authorization.

B. Establish Connection

Select the Facebook page on which you are running the lead ads, and choose the LeadGen Form you want to link with Pabbly Connect. Click on ‘Save And Send Test Request’.

As soon as you click on ‘Save And Send Test Request’, Pabbly Connect will start looking to fetch data from Facebook Lead Ads indicated by the rotating ‘Waiting for Webhook Response Button’.

C. Test the Connection

To fetch the lead details, we will use the ‘Facebook Lead Ads testing tool’, which will help us create a dummy lead. Upon submission of this dummy lead, Pabbly Connect will capture the data from Facebook Lead Ads to test our established connection.

Click on ‘Facebook Lead Ads testing tool’

You will be redirected to the Lead Ads Testing Tool, where you need to create a dummy lead.
Select the Page and Form you want to link, and click on ‘Preview form’

Fill out this dummy form, click on ‘Next’, and ‘Submit’ this form.

Switch back to Pabbly Connect, expand Response Received, and our dummy details must be visible, thus confirming our established connection.

Step 3:- Setup Insightly as the Action App

A. Action App

Action allows us to choose the application that will get executed by the workflow trigger.
Since we want to add contacts in Insightly using the data received from Facebook Leads, Insightly will be our Action App.

Choose ‘Insightly’ as the Action App, select ‘Add a Contact’ as the Action Event, and click on ‘Connect’

B. Connect with Insightly Account

To connect with your Insightly account, select ‘Add New Connection’.

You will be asked to enter API Key and Password. To find your API Key, click ‘here’

You will be redirected to your Insightly account, scroll down and copy the ‘API Key’

Paste the ‘API Key’ in its given field, skip the Password and click on ‘Save’

C. Map the Fields

Since we have already captured the lead from Facebook Lead Ads, all we need is to map those details from above. Mapping ensures our data remains dynamic and changes as per the received responses.

Map the First name from the step above.

Similarly, map the other fields to create a contact. Leave the unnecessary ones empty.

Click on ‘Save & Send Test Request’

After clicking on Save & Send Test Request, a contact will get added to your Insightly account.

Our automation is complete. We have successfully integrated Facebook Lead Ads with Insightly CRM.
Whenever a new lead responds to your Facebook Ads form, they will automatically be added as a contact to your Insightly account.

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