Integrations
Twilio Integration: Enabling Mass Text Messages
In order to send text messages in Empower, you will need to connect your Empower organization to a correctly configured Twilio account. In your Twilio account, you will need to create a messaging service, purchase a phone number, and register for A2P ...
VAN Integration: What Gets Pulled and Pushed
VAN is a well known tool used by many relational organizing programs. This article will describe the information that is pushed and pulled between VAN and Empower. It’s important to note that within VAN there are two databases: MyVoters and ...
Matching Contacts to VAN
VAN is a helpful tool that many different community organizing programs utilize. This article will describe how to match contacts between VAN and Empower. Matching between Empower and VAN happens both automatically and manually. Regardless if you are ...
Prioritize Using Saved Lists in VAN
You can use Empower to target Relational Calls to Action to lists of people that you have created in VAN. There are a number of different ways that you can group people in VAN (e.g. geographic location or absentee vote request status). Empower allows ...
Adding Activist Codes in VAN that Integrate with Empower
Much how Empower uses tags to group and organize people, VAN uses activist codes to categorize their contact records. If you create and use activist codes in VAN, there is a way to integrate them with Empower. What is an Activist Code Activist codes ...
Enabling VAN Integration: How to Request an API Key
In setting up a connection to VAN, you will need to use an API key. This article will walk you through accessing and requesting an API key so that you can connect your Empower account with VAN. Requesting Your API Key In VAN, go to Integrations on ...