Guide: Using CallRail with Databox

1. How to Connect CallRail to Databox

Go to Data Manager > + New Connection > Search for "CallRail" > click Connect.

To connect CallRail to Databox, you will need to enter your API Key. You can find this in your CallRail Account by going to User Profile > View Profile > API Keys. If there is not API Key available, click Create New API Key.

Typically, Agencies use 1 central CallRail Account for all of their Clients. This means that the same CallRail Account is connected in multiple Databox Accounts (Agency Account + Client Accounts). Often, this results in Agencies hitting CallRail's 1000/ day (100/ hour) API request limit.

In order to increase your CallRail API limit, you must contact CallRail's Support Team. Rate limits can be increased per account on a case-by-case basis. In most cases there is no charge to increase limits, but CallRail will ask a few questions about the use case before proceeding. Those questions are outlined below.

1. What does your integration accomplish?
Databox is a centralized reporting tool that allows users to access all of their analytics in one place.

2. What causes your application to request data from our API? How often does this occur?
For paid Databox plans, data is requested hourly. For free Databox plans, data is requested daily.

3. Are you storing data fetched from the API?
Yes, but Databox continues to make API calls for historical data to account for any changes in the data.

2. How to build a CallRail Databoard

Click Templates in the top menu

In the search bar, type "CallRail" or filter by "CallRail" in the righthand menu.

Hover over your desired Template and click Use Template

If you have multiple CallRail Accounts connected, select the one you want to use to populate the Databoard in the drop down menu

Once the Template is pulled into your account, you have the ability to customize the Databoard using the Databox Designer.

Popular templates

CallRail Overview
CallRail Source & Keyword Performance

This dashboard shows the responsiveness of your sales team to incoming calls. It also shows where new calls originate.

This dashboard measures source & keyword performance by comparing calls by first time callers, total calls and the average duration of all calls.

CallRail Overview	CallRail Source & Keyword Performance

This dashboard shows the responsiveness of your sales team to incoming calls. It also shows where new calls originate.	This dashboard measures source & keyword performance by comparing calls by first time callers, total calls and the average duration of all calls.

Creating a Custom Databoard

If you decide not to use a pre-built Template, you have the ability to use the the Designer to create a Databoard from scratch.

3. Most Popular CallRail metrics

Total Calls	Form Submissions	Total Calls by Source

Total Number of Calls tracked during the specified Date Range.	Total Number of Form Submissions tracked during the specified Date Range.	Total Number of Calls tracked, split up by Company, during the specified Date Range.
First Time Callers by Company	Missed Calls by Company	Total Calls by Company

Total Number of First Time Callers tracked for one particular Company during the specified Date Range.	Total Number of Missed Calls tracked for one particular Company during the specified Date Range.	Total Number of Calls tracked, split up by Company, during the specified Date Range.

You can view a full list of all available CallRail Metrics here.

CallRail Query Builder

In order to make the CallRail connector as robust as possible, we have created a Query Builder. This allows you to build Custom Metrics to fit your reporting needs. even more metrics than we offer by default. To learn more about the CallRail Query Builder, read this article.

4. Additional Info

1. Basic Metrics: Databox makes 1 API call to CallRail's API for every Basic Metric that is used on a Databoard. If all Basic CallRail Metrics are used on Databoards in a paid Account, there will be ~24 API calls to CallRail's API every hour.

Example: If 4 Basic CallRail Metrics are used on a Databoard, then Databox will make 4 API calls to CallRail's API/ hour for these Basic Metrics.

2. Custom Metrics: Databox makes 1 API call for each Date Range selected, plus 1 API call for each Comparison Period (i.e., Previous Period or Same Period Last Year).

Example: If 4 Custom CallRail Metric was built with 6 Date Ranges and Compare to: Previous Period selected in each, Databox will make (6 Date Ranges + 6 Previous Periods) * 4 Custom Metrics = 48 API calls to CallRail's API/ hour for these Custom Metrics.

3. Scheduled Syncs: Once a day and once a month there are regularly scheduled syncs to update all CallRail Metrics, whether they're used on Databoards or not. The daily data sync makes 28 API calls to CallRail's API, while the monthly data sync makes 14 API calls to CallRail's API. These API calls are added to the hourly fetching cycle.