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

Send candidates who share their profile with you straight into HiringThing, with their résumé and proof card.

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

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## Before you start

You need a HiringThing user who can open **Account Details**. In most accounts that means an Admin. HiringThing's docs don't name a plan you need for API access.

You will paste two things into Metaintro: an API key and its API password.

## Create the credential in HiringThing

1. Sign in to HiringThing.
2. Open the main menu in the top right and select **Account Details**.
3. Scroll down to the **Integrate** section and select **API Access**.
4. Generate a new API key. Copy the API key and the API password shown with it.

HiringThing's guide: [Get an API Key](https://api.atsanywhere.io/docs/getting-an-api-key).

Store both values somewhere safe. They give access to your HiringThing account.

## Connect in Metaintro

1. Go to **Settings > Integrations**.
2. Choose **HiringThing**.
3. Paste the key into **API key** and the password into **API password**.
4. Select **Connect**.

Then map your Metaintro jobs to HiringThing 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 job.

- **Candidate and application:** Metaintro creates an application on the mapped HiringThing job with the person's name, email and phone, and sets the source to Metaintro. If they already applied to that job, Metaintro uses the existing application.
- **Résumé:** uploaded as the application's résumé. If the application already has one, Metaintro adds theirs as an extra file. The file name starts with "metaintro".
- **Note:** a note on the application with a link to their proof card and a short summary.
- **Status changes:** when you update a candidate in Metaintro, it can move the application to the HiringThing status whose name matches, such as an interview, offer or hired status. If no status matches, nothing changes.
- **Stage updates:** Metaintro checks each application's status in HiringThing regularly and updates Metaintro. Updates are not instant.

Metaintro reads your online and offline HiringThing jobs so you can map them. Archived jobs are not listed.

## Limits

- Metaintro finds existing applicants by exact email. Someone shared without an email is always added as a new application.
- Metaintro can only move applications to statuses that exist and are active in HiringThing.
- HiringThing doesn't publish rate limits. Metaintro paces its requests and waits when HiringThing asks it to slow down.

## If something goes wrong

- **Key rejected:** check that you pasted the key and the password into the right fields. If the key was replaced in API Access, paste the new pair and reconnect.
- **Missing permission:** HiringThing refuses requests the key isn't allowed to make. Ask an Admin with full access to Account Details to create the key.
- **A candidate didn't arrive:** check that the Metaintro job is mapped to an online or offline HiringThing job. If two applications on the job share the person's email, Metaintro stops rather than guess. Merge or fix the duplicate in HiringThing.
- **Rate limited:** Metaintro waits and tries again on its own. You don't need to do anything.
- **Status looks out of date:** statuses are checked regularly, not instantly.

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