Title: Old version of API
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Old version of API

 *  Resolved [lottieb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lottieb/)
 * (@lottieb)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-version-of-api/)
 * Hello,
    First, thank you for this wonderful plugin. It’s simple, easy, and does
   just what I want – almost. The plugin is requiring me to use the Constant Contact
   owner account and when I inquired as to why, Constant Contact API support said
   the following:
 * “This particular plugin is using a very old API that is no longer updated. It
   is still functional for use, but because of its age it was not updated to support
   Constant Contact’s multi-user feature. Because of this limitation, only the username
   that the account was created with can be used for this plugin. It is also worth
   noting that it is **unknown when this plugin may stop working due to the use 
   of this older API that is no longer being updated**.”
 * I thought it would be good to pass this information along.
 * Thank you again
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/constant-contact-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/constant-contact-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [MembershipWorks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sourcefound/)
 * (@sourcefound)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-version-of-api/#post-5129670)
 * Hi lottieb! Thank you for posting this information! The current Constant Contact
   API requires a developer account for which there are usage limits, and we could
   be billed for making too many API calls. This becomes problematic since this 
   is a free plugin, with potentially tons of API calls across all installed websites,
   we don’t want users to run into limits relying on our developer account. We would
   also have had to recoup potential costs of maintaining the developer API account
   through advertising in the plugin.
 * So we decided to keep it simple and use the old API. Although the old API is 
   no longer actively updated, it has been maintained for the last number of years
   and I believe too many websites rely on that for Constant Contact to remove that
   API endpoint.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-version-of-api/#post-5129670)
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