Define your objectives: Clearly understand what you want to achieve with your integration. Identify the key functionalities, the problems it will solve, and how it will add value to your users.
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Understand your target audience: Know who your users are, what their needs are, and how they will interact with your integration. This understanding will guide the features and user experience of your app.
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Research Albato’s capabilities: Familiarize yourself with what Albato offers, its limitations, and how it handles integrations. Knowing its capabilities will help you design an app that works well within its ecosystem.
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API Documentation: Ensure you have detailed documentation for your SaaS's API. This will be crucial for setting up the integration.

Access App Integrator: Log in to your Albato account and navigate to the App Integrator section. This is where you'll start the process of adding a new application.

Provide App Details: Enter the necessary details for the application you want to add. This typically includes the app's name.
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Add authorization. Authentication is required for a user to connect their account in your application to Albato. Refer to your app's API documentation to select the correct schema and authentication fields for the input form your users will see when connecting their app account to Albato.

You can learn more about it in our documentation: Authorization v2. and on the 3th lessons of the "Integrations Advanced" course at Albato Academy“

Set Up Triggers and Actions: Define the triggers (events in your app that initiate an automation) and actions (tasks performed in response to a trigger) for your application. Decide what operations in your app should trigger automations and what actions Albato should take in response.
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You can learn more about it in our documentation: Triggers and Actions and on the 6th and 8th video lessons of the "Integrations Advanced" course at Albato Academy.
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Test the Integration: Once you've configured the triggers and actions, test the integration to ensure that it works as expected. Check that Albato can successfully initiate actions in response to the defined triggers in your app.
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Make It Private or Apply to Publish: After testing and confirming that everything works correctly, your new application integration will be available for private use within your Albato account. If you want to make this integration available to all Albato users, you can apply to publish your app in the Albato library, subject to Albato's review and approval process. You can learn more about it in our documentationPublication rules