Connect your app to Tally
You can connect your Lovable app to Tally to create forms, get form submissions, and manage form workflows. This lets your app interact with Tally forms, for example, to build dashboards or manage leads.
Anyone building an app that needs to interact with Tally forms, like fetching submissions or creating new forms.
Do this, in order
- 1
Sign in to Tally and go to 'Settings' then 'API keys'.
You need a special key from Tally to let Lovable connect to your account.
- 2
Create a new API key and give it a name like 'Lovable integration'.
A descriptive name helps you remember what this key is for.
- 3
Copy the API key that starts with 'tly-'.
You will need this key in the next step to set up the connection in Lovable.
- 4
In Lovable, go to 'Connectors' and select 'Tally'.
This is where you manage all your connections to other services.
- 5
Click 'Add connection'.
You are creating a new link between Lovable and your Tally account.
- 6
Give your connection a 'Display name' (e.g., 'Tally Prod') and paste the Tally API key you copied earlier.
The display name helps you identify this connection, and the API key authenticates Lovable with Tally.
- 7
Choose who can use this connection by setting its sharing options.
You can make the connection private to yourself or share it with others in your Lovable workspace.
- 8
Click 'Connect'.
Lovable will check if the key works and then save your connection.
Paste this into your project
Connect my app to Tally. I want to be able to list forms, fetch submissions, and create forms. I have my Tally API key ready.
Words decoded
- API key
- A secret code that acts like a password, allowing one computer program (like Lovable) to securely access another program's services (like Tally).
- Webhooks
- A way for one app to automatically send real-time updates to another app when something specific happens, like a new form submission.
- Polling
- Repeatedly asking a service if there's new information, like checking your mailbox every few minutes, which can be less efficient than webhooks.
- Rate limits
- Restrictions on how many requests your app can make to a service (like Tally) within a certain time period to prevent overuse.
Where people get stuck
- Sharing your Tally API key publicly, as it functions like a password.
- Forgetting to get permission to create connections in your Lovable workspace.
- Expecting the connector to receive Tally webhooks; you need to set up webhooks separately to an endpoint in your app.
- Not updating the Lovable connection when you rotate (change) your Tally API key.
- Trying to use the connection for multiple Tally accounts per end-user, as each connection is for a single Tally account.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.