Guide for Integrating Tento Onboarding Buttons
Tento Embedded Experience – Quick Start Guide
Welcome! This guide will help you understand how to add Tento's embeddable onboarding buttons —like Business Credit Monitoring and Financing to your website or application. It's designed for anyone, even if you're not technical. For detailed technical steps, always refer to the official Tento documentation.
What are the Tento Onboarding Buttons?
Tento Embedded Experience lets you easily add financial tools to your website. The onboarding buttons allow you to easily place a button that launches an elegant onboarding experience for your users that seamlessly integrates with the Tento Services Suite. You can offer features like Business Credit Monitoring onboarding or Tento Financing application without having to leave your site.
How to Use This Guide
- Choose Your Widget: Decide if you want to add Business Credit Monitoring onboarding, Business Credit Financing Onboarding, or both. For this guide, we'll cover adding both buttons.
- Pick Your Platform: Tento supports all websites that utilize javascript (or js variations like typescript). And there is also a specialized plugin for WordPress
- Follow the Steps Below: Each section tells you where to find the official, up-to-date instructions.
Requirements
Prerequisites
Before beginning implementation, ensure you have:
- Tento Partner Account with Business Credit Monitoring access
- Apply at https://apply.tento.co/partners
partnerId- Your partner API keyx-api-key- Your private API key for all requests
- Target Platform - Website or application for dashboard embedding
- Technical Knowledge - Basic understanding of your platform's integration capabilities
- BCM Customers with retrievable data
Technical Requirements
- JavaScript integration capability or a wordpress based site
- HTTPS-enabled website (required for secure data transmission)
- Modern web browser support (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
1. Basic Installation for Any Website
- If you use WordPress or WooCommerce, you can add Tento widgets in just a couple of minutes—no coding required!
- Visit the official No-Code Installation Guide for step-by-step instructions.
- For all other websites, you can add Tento widgets by including a small script in your site's HTML.
- See the "Basic HTML Installation" section in the Tento Embedded Experience Overview.
2. Add Business Credit Monitoring Onboarding
- To offer your users an business credit monitoring, identify a good place on your site where you want to offer the button that launches the onboarding experience.
- Once a location is identified, follow the appropriate instructions to add the
appendBcmButtonelement. - If relevant, follow the pre-fill instructions to make the onboarding experience even more seamless. This will autofill the application steps and should be used if you already have the information in your system.
- Store the custom ID's used in your system on our side to reference later (so that you don't have store the ID assigned by Tento for the objects) make sure to utilize the Custom ID's configure object.
3. Add Financing Onboarding Button
- To offer your users an business credit monitoring, identify a good place on your site where you want to offer the button that launches the onboarding experience.
- Once a location is identified, follow the appropriate instructions to add the
loadFinancingWidgetelement. - If relevant, follow the pre-fill instructions to make the onboarding experience even more seamless. This will autofill the application steps and should be used if you already have the information in your system.
- Make sure to use your
partnerIdin Custom ID's configure object. No need to utilize any other custom ID's for the Financing Widget
4. More Examples and Help
- Tento provides examples for different platforms and frameworks:
- For troubleshooting, best practices, and API details, visit the Tento Docs Home.
Need More Help?
- For the latest updates, troubleshooting, and support, always check the official Tento documentation: https://docs.tento.co/
- If you get stuck, reach out to Tento support or visit their community forums.
Tip: This guide is a high-level overview. For all technical details, code samples, and advanced options, use the links above to access the official Tento documentation.
Updated 5 months ago
