Nextdoor Conversion API Quick Start Guide

Nextdoor Conversions API Quick Start Guide

Destination Info

Connection Modes:

Client-side
Server-side

Web

Mobile

Server

Getting Started

This guide enables you to fully enable the Nextdoor Conversions API destination for your site. For more complex events see our additional documentation. Additionally this guide assumes you have the Freshpaint snippet installed on your site; if you do not please follow this guide.

High-level steps:

  1. Find/create your Nextdoor API Token and Pixel ID

  2. Enable the Freshpaint Nextdoor destination

    • If in HIPAA mode enable the required fields

  3. Confirm and validate events

Find your Nextdoor API Token and Pixel ID

API Token

  1. Log in to your Nextdoor Ads Manager

  2. Select Business settings from the dropdown in the top right.

  3. Navigate to Ads API. You will not be able to see this menu item if you have not been granted API access from Nextdoor.

  4. Locate or generate your API Token for the Conversions API.

Pixel ID

  1. Navigate to Assets > Pixels in the top menu.

  2. Create a Pixel and the "Data Source ID". This is your Pixel ID.

Enable the Freshpaint Nextdoor Conversions API destination

  1. Search for the Nextdoor Conversions API destination.

  2. Select Configure to paste your API Token and Pixel ID from the above steps.

  3. Customers that use HIPAA mode should then configure the required, recommended, and recommended view-through properties. You can find all properties that the Freshpaint Nextdoor integration supports here: Nextdoor Conversion API Reference

  4. Enable Nextdoor.

Once you've followed the steps above you can start sending events to Nextdoor Conversions API.

Confirm and validate events

Confirm and Validate Conversions in Freshpaint

  1. Navigate to your site and visit a page that should trigger your event

  2. Trigger your event (Our demonstration event is a Sign Up).

  3. Navigate to the Event Verification tool.

  4. Select Nextdoor Conversion API and verify your event went through.

    • This can take up to 90 seconds.

  5. Verify the event is marked as OK or resolve missing property issues.

Confirm and Validate Conversions in Nextdoor

To check whether Nextdoor is receiving events.

  1. Log in to your Nextdoor Ads Manager

  2. From the top menu select Assets > Creatives

  3. If you visit your running ads and click one, you should see Clicks and Impressions as non-zero.

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