# How do I send Evaboot leads to Instantly?

**Create an API key in Instantly, paste it into Evaboot, then pick the campaign that receives your leads.** Each integration sends leads to one Instantly campaign.

## Before you start

- A paid Instantly plan. The Instantly API is not available on the free plan.
- An Instantly API key. In Instantly, go to **Settings**, **Integrations**, **API keys** and create a key with these scopes: `workspaces:read`, `campaigns:read`, `lead_lists:read`, `leads:create` and `leads:read`.
- A campaign in Instantly to add the leads to.

## Connect Instantly

1. **Open [Integrations](https://dash.evaboot.com/dash/integrations/)** and click **New integration**. If you have no integration yet, the tool cards show on the page directly.
   ![The Integrations page of the Evaboot dashboard with a card for each tool](https://help.evaboot.com/images/flows/manual-integrations/00-integrations.png)
2. **Click the Instantly card.**
   ![The Connect Instantly page in the Evaboot dashboard](https://help.evaboot.com/images/flows/manual-integrations/instantly-connect.png)
3. **Paste your key** in the **API key** field and click **Connect Instantly**. Evaboot checks the key with Instantly, then opens the **Instantly settings** page.

## Choose the settings

4. **Name the integration** and pick the **Campaign**.
5. **Pick what to send** under **Send data from**: Sales Navigator exports, URL enrichment, Email finder or Email verifier.
6. **Set the filters.**
   - **Email filter**: starts on **Safe emails only**, so leads with a riskier email are left out.
   - **Qualification filter**: All prospects, or Qualified only.
7. **Pick the trigger.**
   - **Automatic: send when a job completes**: each finished, unlocked export is sent. Under **Send leads from**, choose all exports, all recurring exports, specific recurring exports, or specific folders.
   - **Manual: only send when you trigger it**: nothing is sent until you push an export yourself.
8. **Choose Skip leads already in another campaign.** On by default: leads already in another campaign of this workspace are skipped.
9. **Click Save.** The integration appears on the Integrations page.

To send leads to another campaign, create a second Instantly integration. Click the Instantly card again and pick the other campaign.

## What Evaboot sends to Instantly

- One lead per person, with email, first name, last name, company name, job title and company website.
- Custom variables: `linkedin_url`, `evaboot_linkedin_id` and `company_linkedin_url`. For URL enrichment exports, your own upload columns are added too.
- Instantly needs an email. A lead with no email is skipped.
- Account exports are not sent: Instantly takes people only.
- Instantly never updates a lead it already has, so there is no overwrite option.

How duplicates are avoided:

- A lead already pushed to this campaign is skipped.
- Leads Instantly reports as already in the campaign, in another campaign, or in its blocklist are counted as skipped. Invalid emails are counted as failed.

## Send an export by hand

On the export list, click **+** in the **Push** column of a finished export (**Push this export**) and pick your Instantly integration. The export must be unlocked first. Click the Instantly logo in the same cell to see the push log: created, skipped and failed counts.

To send every run of a recurring export, pick the integration under **Send new leads to** when you set the schedule up.

## If it didn't work

- **"That API key was refused. Check it and try again."**: copy the key again and paste it without spaces. Check it has all five scopes.
- **"Instantly accepted the key, but this account's plan or permissions do not allow API access."**: the API needs a paid Instantly plan.
- **"The Instantly campaign no longer exists."**: open the integration with **Edit**, pick another **Campaign**, then **Save**.
- **Reconnect shows in the Status column**: Instantly no longer accepts the key. Click **Reconnect** and paste a valid key.
- **Many leads skipped**: check **Email filter** and **Skip leads already in another campaign** on the integration. Leads without an email are always skipped.

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