Introduction
What is VoterVoice?
VoterVoice is an advocacy software that helps organizations make their voice heard in the political arena. It gives you tools to manage campaigns, awareness, grassroots engagement and legislative analysis from the local to national level.
To set up this integration, you must have an account with VoterVoice that allows API access.
Click here to learn more and/or contact sales@votervoice.net with any questions.
What is the VoterVoice integration in MC Trade?
As your AMS, MC Trade is "home base" for all of your members, prospective members and their related people and companies.
This integration allows you to pull federal and state government district and official data into your MC Trade profiles to be used for better member intelligence, targeting, and analytics.
The data can be viewed on each profile, periodically updated for new profiles, and after election cycles.
What data is passed from VoterVoice to MC Trade?
For all profiles that have a valid address entered and are selected to sync, all available federal and state government district and official data will be saved in the Voter Voice tab in the MC Trade profile. What data is returned is determined by the type of account/data you have access to in Voter Voice, and can include the following:
- President, Vice President, and other Federal Executive offices
- US Senate District/Senators
- US House District/Representative
- State Senate District/Senator
- State House District/Representative
- Party Affiliation where applicable
Configuring the Integration
To configure this data sync into your MC Trade profiles:
- Click on the Admin menu and then Global Settings.
- Click on the Integrations tab and then VoterVoice.
- Enter the Association ID and API Key provided by your VoterVoice account.
- Proceed with running a full sync.
Syncing Data
There are two syncing options:
- Update Government Data: This pulls all of the latest elected official data.
- Sync Profile Data: This adds the details to the profile based on the profile's address.
You cannot sync profile data until you have updated government data.
A confirmation email will be sent to the email address entered in the Global Settings (Online Bill Pay Notification email in Global Settings each time the sync is complete.
If you need to edit the notification email address, click on the Admin menu, Global Settings, and then the Email Address for Notifications tab. Look for Online Bill Pay Notification.
Update Government Data
To run a full sync of all address/district/official data on your MC Trade profiles:
- Click on the Admin menu and then Global Settings.
- Click on the Integrations tab and then VoterVoice.
- Click Update Government Data.
This will generate all current data based on latest elections. This data will not be updated automatically with the nightly sync and should only be done periodically.
To ensure profile address updates or new profiles are updated with the generated data each night, place a check next to Update VoterVoice profile data each night for all profiles.
Sync Profile Data
You cannot sync profile data until you have updated government data.
To sync all profiles with the government data that has been generated:
- Click on the Admin menu and then Global Settings.
- Click on the Integrations tab and then VoterVoice.
- Click Sync Profile Data.
Only districts to which that address belongs will be added to the profile.
Once data is synced, you can see it on the "VoterVoice" panel within a profile, and/or search by VoterVoice district/official data in the Profile Selector.