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Create a Custom Service for Use with ReST API

Last update: July 21, 2025
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  • Administration

If you want to integrate with Marketo via the ReST API, you’ll want to create a custom service. Here’s how.

PREREQUISITES
  • Create an API Only User Role
  • Create an API Only User
NOTE
Admin Permissions Required
TIP
Check out our developers documentation for details on the REST API. We also have the SOAP API if that’s what you need.

Create Custom Service

  1. Go to the Admin area.

  2. Click LaunchPoint.

  3. Select New and then New Service.

  4. Enter a Display Name for the service. Select the API Only User previously created.

    NOTE
    Notice that we already have native integration for popular webinar services.

  5. Click Create.

    Oh yeah! The service is now created, let’s go ahead and get all the credentials to provide for access.

Credentials for API Access

  1. Go to the Admin area.

  2. Click LaunchPoint.

  3. Click View Details for the custom LaunchPoint service created above.

  4. Click Get Token.

  5. Provide the Client Id, Client Secret, Authorized User, and Token to the person in charge of establishing the connection.

CAUTION
Don’t share this information; it’s the backdoor to your data. Keep it safe!
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