Integrations

Forest is able to leverage data from third party services by reconciliating it with your application’s data, providing it directly to your admin. All your admin actions can be performed at the same place, bringing additional intelligence to your admin and ensuring consistency.

Stripe

Configuring the Stripe integration for Forest allows you to have your customer’s payments, invoices, cards and subscriptions (1) alongside the corresponding customer from your application. A Refund Smart Action (2,3) is also implemented out-of-the-box.

middlewares/forestadmin.js
...
​
module.exports = function (app) {
  app.use(Liana.init({
    modelsDir: path.join(__dirname, '../models'),
    configDir: path.join(__dirname, '../forest'),
    envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
    authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
    sequelize: models.Sequelize,
    integrations: {
      stripe: {
        apiKey: process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY,
        mapping: 'customers.stripe_id',
        stripe: require('stripe')
      }
    }
  }));
​
  console.log(chalk.cyan('Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects'));
};

middlewares/forestadmin.js
...
​
module.exports = function (app) {
  app.use(Liana.init({
    modelsDir: path.join(__dirname, '../models'),
    configDir: path.join(__dirname, '../forest'),
    envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
    authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
    mongoose,
    integrations: {
      stripe: {
        apiKey: process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY,
        mapping: 'customers.stripe_id',
        stripe: require('stripe')
      }
    }
  }));
​
  console.log(chalk.cyan('Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects'));
};

Available options

Here are the complete list of available options to customize your Stripe integration.

Mixpanel

The Mixpanel integration allows you to fetch Mixpanel’s events and display them at a record level into Forest.

middlewares/forestadmin.js
...
​
module.exports = function (app) {
  app.use(Liana.init({
    modelsDir: path.join(__dirname, '../models'),
    configDir: path.join(__dirname, '../forest'),
    envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
    authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
    sequelize: models.Sequelize,
    integrations: {
      mixpanel: {
        apiKey: process.env.MIXPANEL_API_KEY,
        apiSecret: process.env.MIXPANEL_SECRET_KEY,
        mapping: ['customers.email'],
        customProperties: ['Campaign Source', 'plan', 'tutorial complete'],
        mixpanel: require('mixpanel-data-export')
      },
    },
  }));
​
  console.log(chalk.cyan('Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects'));
};

middlewares/forestadmin.js
...
​
module.exports = function (app) {
  app.use(Liana.init({
    modelsDir: path.join(__dirname, '../models'),
    configDir: path.join(__dirname, '../forest'),
    envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
    authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
    mongoose,
    integrations: {
      mixpanel: {
        apiKey: process.env.MIXPANEL_API_KEY,
        apiSecret: process.env.MIXPANEL_SECRET_KEY,
        mapping: ['customers.email'],
        customProperties: ['Campaign Source', 'plan', 'tutorial complete'],
        mixpanel: require('mixpanel-data-export')
      },
    },
  }));
​
  console.log(chalk.cyan('Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects'));
};

You will then be able to see the Mixpanel events on a record, a Customer in our example.

Intercom

Configuring the Intercom integration allows you to display your user’s session data (location, browser type, …) and conversations.

First, add the intercom client as a dependency to your project (intercom client version needs to be 2.11):

npm install intercom-client@2.11

Then, you need to add the intercom integration in the middlewares/forestadmin.js file.

middlewares/forestadmin.js
...
const intercomClient = require('intercom-client');
​
module.exports = async function (app) {
  app.use(await Liana.init({
    modelsDir: path.join(__dirname, '../models'),
    configDir: path.join(__dirname, '../forest'),
    envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
    authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
    sequelize,
    integrations: {
      intercom: {
        accessToken: process.env.INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN,
        intercom: intercomClient,
        mapping: ['users.email'],
      },
    },
  }));
​
  console.log(chalk.cyan('Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects'));
};

middlewares/forestadmin.js
...
const intercomClient = require('intercom-client');
​
module.exports = async function (app) {
  app.use(await Liana.init({
    modelsDir: path.join(__dirname, '../models'),
    configDir: path.join(__dirname, '../forest'),
    envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
    authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
    mongoose,
    integrations: {
      intercom: {
        accessToken: process.env.INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN,
        intercom: intercomClient,
        mapping: ['users.email'],
      },
    },
  }));
​
  console.log(chalk.cyan('Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects'));
};

• intercom is used to pass the intercom client version. To do so, you have to require the previously installed client, as in the example.

• accessToken should be defined in your environment variable and is provided by intercom.

• mapping refers to the collection and field name you want to map to intercom data. It can either be a field that contain emails that refer to intercom users or a field that contain ids mapping the external_id in Intercom API.

Others

As mentioned above, we natively support 3 integrations:

• Intercom

• Mixpanel

• Stripe

However, basically any integration can be build using our smart features: Smart Actions, Smart Collections, Smart Relationships and Smart Charts.