{"_id":"571f8856435301190079f75a","api":{"auth":"required","params":[],"results":{"codes":[]},"settings":"","url":""},"body":"[block:api-header]\n{\n  \"type\": \"basic\",\n  \"title\": \"What do you want to do?\"\n}\n[/block]\nThe FundraisingBox provides different APIs for different purposes:\n\n##Synchronize external services\nHave a look at our [Webhooks](doc:what-is-a-webhook) to process data automatically to your ERP, CRM or special webservice.\n\n##Propagate values into the FundraisingBox iFrame form\nThe simple [Form-Prepopulation-API](doc:form-prepopulation-api) is the right choice for you.\n\n##Complex prepopulation, e.g. for shopping cart or multi step forms\nUse our serverside [Session-API](doc:session-api-introduction) to store and validate data and submit this session to the iFrame form. \n\n##Create highly individual donation forms with automatic validation and payment\nOur [Form-API](doc:form-api) provides you a mighty Javascript jQuery-Plugin for single and multi step forms. Just write your own HTML code!\n\n##Process payments with your server\nThe [Payment-API](doc:payment-api) can process values directly or you submit a session.\n\n##Build custom crowdfunding themes\nThe [FundraisingPage-JSON-API](doc:fundraising-page-json-api) provides you a JSON that you can use to build highly individual fundraising pages.\n\n##Access FundraisingBox objects\nOur [REST-API](doc:rest-api) provides you several objects as XML.\n[block:callout]\n{\n  \"type\": \"info\",\n  \"body\": \"All APIs have a daily access limit (calls per second and calls per day). \\nPlease check how many calls you have available in your FundraisingBox plan.\\n\\nWebhooks do not have any restrictions.\",\n  \"title\": \"API access limits\"\n}\n[/block]\n\n[block:api-header]\n{\n  \"type\": \"basic\",\n  \"title\": \"SSL Validation\"\n}\n[/block]\nFor defeating the \"man in the middle\" you need to verify the certificate being presented to you.\nYou can do this by comparing it against Mozilla’s CA certificate bundle.\n\nBy default a curl installation (e.g. PHP curl) already uses an existing cacert.pem file.\nIf you get an error similar to „Peer’s Certificate issuer is not recognized.“ please update your cacert.pem from [https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html).\n[block:callout]\n{\n  \"type\": \"warning\",\n  \"title\": \"HTTPS\",\n  \"body\": \"Always use [https://api.fundraisingbox.com](https://api.fundraisingbox.com)! If you perform a request on http you will get a redirect answer in return.\"\n}\n[/block]\n\n[block:api-header]\n{\n  \"type\": \"basic\",\n  \"title\": \"Conventions in the documentation\"\n}\n[/block]\nIn the documentation that follows, the following notation is used:\n\n    {text}: Indicates text that should be replaced by your own data.\n    \n    ...: Indicates content from the response has been elided for brevity in documentation.","githubsync":"","order":0,"type":"basic","updates":[],"category":"571f884be54f2d0e003ebb0a","excerpt":"Short overview","link_external":false,"version":"571f5e8cd8667f0e00a3c49b","createdAt":"2016-04-26T15:25:10.700Z","isReference":false,"sync_unique":"","user":"571f5e46d8e3cf1900762b33","__v":9,"hidden":false,"link_url":"","parentDoc":null,"project":"571f5e8cd8667f0e00a3c498","slug":"how-to-start","title":"How to start","next":{"description":"","pages":[]},"childrenPages":[]}