# How to correctly integrate the FORMS API on our website forms.

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**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** forms\
**Created:** [August 20, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/how-to-correctly-integrate-the-forms-api-on-our-website-forms/15843 "2019-08-20T16:34:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/how-to-correctly-integrate-the-forms-api-on-our-website-forms/15843/2 "2019-08-20T20:09:39Z")

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That sounds pretty correct - though you might not need to use the Contacts API at all.

HubSpot uses email address as a unique identifier for de-duplication purposes, so if you just carry the email value through into a hidden field of step #2 and map that into the corresponding HubSpot form - HubSpot’s software is smart enough to connect the dots and update the appropriate contact record without having to do a manual contact “upsert” via the Contacts API.

So it actually may be more simple that you initially thought.

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