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title: "Connect Dover to Metaintro | Metaintro"
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# Connect Dover to Metaintro

Connect your Dover API key so people who choose to share with you arrive on your active jobs as agency submissions.

Last updated: November 11, 2026[Employers](/help/category/employers)

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## Before you start

You need Dover's **ATS Premium** plan. On other plans, Dover refuses every API call.

You need someone who can open **Settings** in Dover. Dover's guide does not say which role is needed.

You will paste one thing into Metaintro: your Dover API key.

## Create the credential in Dover

These steps follow Dover's guide, [Dover API](https://docs.dover.com/api/dover-api/).

1. In Dover, select **Settings > Integrations**.
2. Open **Dover API**.
3. Select the copy icon to copy the key. You can also select the eye icon to show it.

Dover's [API overview](https://docs.dover.com/api/) also points to **Settings > API Key** for the same key.

If you ever select **Regenerate**, the old key stops working at once. Connect Metaintro again with the new key.

## Connect in Metaintro

1. In Metaintro, go to **Settings > Integrations**.
2. Choose **Dover**.
3. In **API key**, paste the key you copied.
4. Select **Connect**.

Then map your jobs, set your rules, check the preview and go live.

## What Metaintro sends and reads

Metaintro only sends people who chose to share their profile with you for a specific job.

- **Jobs:** Metaintro reads your active public jobs so you can map them.
- **Candidate:** each person is added to the mapped job as an agency submission from Metaintro, with their name and email. They join the first stage of the job's hiring pipeline.
- **Résumé:** when the person has one, Metaintro sends a secure link and Dover downloads the file.
- **Proof card:** Dover's API cannot add notes, so a link to their proof card and their summary go in the candidate's comments.

Stage updates come back by checking each job's list of recent hires regularly. Dover does not share other stages through its API, so Metaintro only learns when a candidate is hired.

## Limits

- The API needs Dover's ATS Premium plan.
- Only active public jobs can be mapped. Draft jobs are not listed until you activate them in Dover.
- Metaintro only reads hires. It cannot see interview, offer or rejection stages.
- Metaintro cannot add notes or move candidates between stages.
- Metaintro cannot search your existing Dover candidates. If the same person already applied another way, check for a duplicate in Dover.
- Dover takes résumés as PDF, DOC, DOCX or TXT files.
- Comments are limited to 5,000 characters, so a very long summary is shortened.
- Dover does not publish its rate limits. Metaintro paces its calls and waits when Dover asks it to slow down.

## If something goes wrong

- **The key is rejected:** copy the key again from **Settings > Integrations > Dover API** and connect again. If someone selected Regenerate, use the new key.
- **Access is refused:** your account is not on the ATS Premium plan. Upgrade in Dover, then connect again.
- **A job is missing:** check that the job is active and public in Dover, then refresh your jobs in Metaintro.
- **A candidate was not added:** check that the job is still active in Dover and has at least one hiring pipeline stage.
- **Too many requests:** Dover has paused calls for a moment. Metaintro waits and tries again by itself.

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