How do I connect my Sprout and Employee Advocacy accounts?

You can connect your Sprout and Employee Advocacy accounts to unlock additional functionality. When you connect your accounts, you can:

• See the Employee Advocacy report in Sprout
• Send content from the Sprout calendar and Find Content views to your Advocacy sources
• Create Advocacy stories at the same time as Sprout posts

Note: All groups within your account will have access to this functionality.

How-to

To connect your accounts, you’ll need to get your Advocacy API key and store it in Sprout.

To get your Advocacy API key:

1. Log in to your Advocacy account.
2. Navigate to Company Settings.
3. Click Story Creation.
   
   
4. If you’ve generated an API key before, click Show. If not, click Generate Key.
   
   
5. Click Copy.
   

Next, you’ll need to store the API key in Sprout. To store the key:

1. Log in to Sprout.
2. Navigate to Settings > Integrations.
3. Click Connect on Employee Advocacy.
   
   
4. Paste your API key.
5. Click Submit.

Once you’ve stored your API key, Employee Advocacy will appear as connected under Settings > Integrations.

Note: If you previously had your Sprout and Advocacy accounts connected, Employee Advocacy will already show as connected.

Disconnecting your account

To disconnect your account:

1. Log in to Sprout.
2. Navigate to Settings > Integrations.
3. Click Connect on Employee Advocacy.
4. Click Disconnect.
   
   

Updating your API key

If you update your API key in Advocacy, you may need to reconnect your Sprout and Advocacy accounts. Disconnect your account and follow the steps above to reconnect.