Bolt.new AI and SharpSpring integration: Step-by-Step Guide 2025

You integrate Bolt.new with SharpSpring the same way you integrate any app with SharpSpring: you call SharpSpring’s public REST API (sometimes referred to as the “SharpSpring Marketing Automation API”). Bolt.new does not have a native connector — integrations happen through normal HTTP requests using your SharpSpring Account ID and Secret Key. In practice: you put those credentials into Bolt.new environment variables, write a small server-side function (Node.js) that signs requests the way SharpSpring requires, then call that function from your UI or workflow. That’s the whole pattern.

 

What SharpSpring Actually Provides

 

SharpSpring exposes a JSON-RPC–style API over HTTPS. You send a POST request to:

https://api.sharpspring.com/pubapi/v1/

Each request must include:

• accountID (your SharpSpring account ID)
• secretKey (your API secret)
• method (example: createLeads, getLeads)
• params (payload of the request)

There is no OAuth flow — just account ID + secret key. That means you MUST store these only on the server side of your Bolt.new app (never in frontend code).

 

What You Do Inside Bolt.new

 

Bolt.new lets you run a backend (usually Node.js + Express) and a frontend in the same workspace. The backend can keep secrets and make API calls.

You wire SharpSpring like this:

• Create environment variables inside Bolt.new for: SHARPSPRING_ACCOUNT_ID and SHARPSPRING_SECRET_KEY.
• Write a server-side route in Node that sends properly structured POST requests to SharpSpring.
• Call that route from your frontend or from AI agent logic inside Bolt.

This is the same pattern as integrating with any REST/JSON API.

 

Minimal Working Example (Node.js backend inside Bolt.new)

 

This example creates a lead in SharpSpring. This is REAL, valid SharpSpring API usage.

// server/routes/sharpspring.js
import express from "express";
import fetch from "node-fetch";

const router = express.Router();

router.post("/create-lead", async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const { email, firstName, lastName } = req.body;

    const payload = {
      method: "createLeads",
      params: {
        objects: [
          {
            email,
            firstName,
            lastName
          }
        ]
      },
      id: "bolt-new-test",
      accountID: process.env.SHARPSPRING_ACCOUNT_ID,   // stored safely
      secretKey: process.env.SHARPSPRING_SECRET_KEY    // stored safely
    };

    const response = await fetch("https://api.sharpspring.com/pubapi/v1/", {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
      },
      body: JSON.stringify(payload)
    });

    const data = await response.json();
    res.json(data);

  } catch (err) {
    res.status(500).json({ error: err.message });
  }
});

export default router;

 

Then you mount this route in your main server.js:

import express from "express";
import sharpspringRoutes from "./routes/sharpspring.js";

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

app.use("/api/sharpspring", sharpspringRoutes);

app.listen(3000, () => console.log("Server started"));

 

Frontend Example Call (React in Bolt.new)

 

// Example React code calling the backend route
async function sendLead() {
  const res = await fetch("/api/sharpspring/create-lead", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      email: "[email protected]",
      firstName: "Jane",
      lastName: "Doe"
    })
  });

  const data = await res.json();
  console.log("SharpSpring response:", data);
}

 

Key Constraints You Must Understand

 

• SharpSpring API rate-limits are documented; avoid high-volume loops during testing.
• API keys must always stay server-side — never expose them in HTML/JavaScript on the client.
• Bolt.new’s environment is sandboxed; external API calls must use HTTPS and standard fetch.
• SharpSpring returns JSON-RPC style responses; success states and errors come in structured JSON.

 

Production Hardening

 

• Validate all incoming request bodies before sending them to SharpSpring.
• Log API errors server-side for debugging (SharpSpring error messages are sometimes cryptic).
• Implement retry logic only for idempotent GET-like calls; never automatically retry lead creation unless you implement your own de-duplication.
• Store SharpSpring credentials in environment variables in your actual hosting environment (Render, AWS, Vercel, etc.).

 

Summary

 

Integrating Bolt.new with SharpSpring is simply about making authenticated HTTPS requests from your Bolt backend to SharpSpring’s JSON-RPC API. You store SharpSpring credentials as environment variables, write a small Node route that sends the properly formatted POST body, and call that route from your UI or workflow. Nothing magic — just clean, explicit API plumbing.