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Valerie_Armstro
Valerie_Armstro
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June 24, 2014
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API Calls and Forms 2.0

  • June 24, 2014
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Hello,
 
I am weighing the option of replacing forms on our website with Marketo forms 2.0. Currently, we have our website forms pushing the captured data into Marketo via the SOAP API.  I’m wondering if we were to switch to the embedded Marketo 2.0 forms, would we still need to use the API calls to get the data into Marketo like we do now?
 
Thanks in advance for your help!
 
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We switched from using our own forms, to using Forms 2.0 recently. Largely to better capture the data into Marketo (versus pushing it in as you've been doing as well). We did also have a requirement to send some form data into our systems for other purposes. For that we set up a webhook that is called, takes the necessary data, and delivers it into our own system for processing. The whole thing works a lot better and we get much better reporting with fewer holes in the data. Highly recommend going to Forms 2.0. 

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Valerie_Armstro
Valerie_ArmstroAuthor
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June 25, 2014
Thank you for confirming, Jep.
Jep_Castelein2
Jep_Castelein2
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June 24, 2014
Forms 2.0 will not count against the daily request limit. The limit is only for the SOAP and REST APIs. 
    Valerie_Armstro
    Valerie_ArmstroAuthor
    New Participant
    June 24, 2014
    From my knowledge, we are not sending the data from our website forms to any servers, as we use Marketo forms for the same purpose as our website forms without any additional code or work-arounds. For further clarification, utilizing forms 2.0 on external web pages will not require any API calls that will go against our API Daily Request Limit so long as there is not any additional custom code required for another business purpose?
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    Anonymous
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    June 24, 2014
    We switched from using our own forms, to using Forms 2.0 recently. Largely to better capture the data into Marketo (versus pushing it in as you've been doing as well). We did also have a requirement to send some form data into our systems for other purposes. For that we set up a webhook that is called, takes the necessary data, and delivers it into our own system for processing. The whole thing works a lot better and we get much better reporting with fewer holes in the data. Highly recommend going to Forms 2.0. 
      Kenny_Elkington
      Kenny_Elkington
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      June 24, 2014
      Hey Val,

      It's really dependent on the requirements you have.  Forms 2.0 forms will only post directly to a marketo instance, so if you have a requirement for data to go to one of your own servers in addition to send to Marketo, this may not be the best course of action.  You can create custom code for your pages to make ajax requests during submission via the Forms 2.0 API(http://developers.marketo.com/documentation/websites/forms-2-0/), but that will require custom implementation in addition to the embed code itself.
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