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Connect Basecamp so your teammates can work in your Basecamp account.

Access levels

Basecamp has one level. The connect window shows it as Default and describes it as “Standard access.” Teammates can use all 140 Basecamp actions. You cannot choose a narrower level for Basecamp. You can block single teammates with No access under One teammate at a time. The Basecamp sign-in page asks you to approve full access to your account. This is expected. Squad does not narrow the sign-in, and standard access does not limit which Basecamp actions teammates can use.

What teammates can do

The summary below groups the Basecamp actions into plain tasks. The full list after it names every action, grouped by what the action works on. You do not need to name actions. Ask in plain words, and the teammate searches for the matching action.
Find an action. Open the list and use your browser’s find (Ctrl+F, or Cmd+F on a Mac) with a word from the task or part of a slug. Or ask a teammate in plain words, for example “What can you do in my Basecamp account?” The teammate can search the Basecamp actions for you, and it can see which levels run each action.
Each action shows its name, a one-line description where the Basecamp action catalog has one, and its slug. The slug is the ID that teammates use when they call the action.
  • View, create, and update tasks
  • View, create, update, and delete columns
  • View, create, and update comments
  • View, create, and update files
  • View, update, and send messages
  • View, create, update, and delete projects
  • View, create, and update cards
  • View, create, and update documents
  • View people
  • View, create, update, and delete templates
  • View, create, update, and delete webhooks
  • View, create, and update entries

Connect Basecamp

Before you start:
  • You need a Basecamp account that you can sign in to.
  • Your Squad subscription must be active. Squad does not connect apps while the subscription is not active.
1

Open Apps

Click Settings at the bottom of the sidebar, then Apps.
2

Add an integration

Under Connected apps, click the Add integration card.
3

Find Basecamp

Find Basecamp in the catalog and click it. You can type the name in Search the catalog.
4

Keep the default level

Under What every teammate can do, keep Default. It is the only option.
5

Choose who may use it

If other people are in your squad, the window also shows Share this account with everyone in this squad. It is ticked for the owner and clear for everyone else. Leave it ticked to let your teammates use the account for anyone’s requests. Clear it to keep the account for your own requests.
6

Click Connect Basecamp

Click Connect Basecamp. The Basecamp sign-in page opens in a new tab.
7

Sign in to Basecamp

Sign in to Basecamp and approve the request. The Squad window waits and closes by itself when the account shows up.
Check that it works: Basecamp shows under Your connections in its own card, with a row for the account and its access level.

Set access for one teammate

Every teammate can use the account unless you block it. Only you and your Administrators see One teammate at a time. The window says “Each teammate can do what’s set above unless you choose otherwise here. A change applies from their next use of it.”
  1. Under Your connections, open the account menu (⋯) on the Basecamp account.
  2. Click Manage scope.
  3. Under One teammate at a time, find the teammate.
  4. Choose No access to block the teammate. Choose Default (Default) to allow it again.
  5. Click Save access.
Changes apply from the teammate’s next call. A teammate with No access does not see the account.

Use more than one Basecamp account

Click + Account on the Basecamp card to connect another account. Teammates try the main account first unless they are asked to use a specific one. When other people are in your squad, a person’s own accounts come before shared accounts.
  • After you click + Account, follow the connect steps above.
  • The first account you connect becomes the main account. Its row shows Main account.
  • To change the main account, open the account menu (⋯) and click Make it the main account. Only you and the Administrators who can see every teammate can do this.
  • To tell accounts apart, open the account menu (⋯) and click Rename.
  • Each account is private to the person who connected it unless that person shares it. When other people are in your squad, connecting an account asks whether to share it with everyone. See Who can use an account.

Reconnect or disconnect

Reconnect when the connection has expired, or when you need to change what the account can reach on the Basecamp side:
  1. Open the account menu (⋯) and click Reconnect.
  2. Click Reauthorize on Basecamp.
  3. Sign in to Basecamp and approve the request.
Reconnect signs in to the same account again. It does not add a second connection. Only the person who connected the account can reconnect it. An account whose sign-in has expired shows Needs reconnecting on its row, with a Reconnect button for the person who connected it. Open the account menu (⋯) on the Basecamp account and click Disconnect…. A dialog asks you to confirm and says “Your teammates lose access to Basecamp through this account.” Click Disconnect. Teammates then lose access to that account at once. If it was the main account, another connected Basecamp account becomes the main account.

Costs

Basecamp actions do not use Squad credits. Connected apps never use credits. For what does use credits, see What Squad costs.

Troubleshooting

A teammate says it has no access to Basecamp, or it does not see the account.
  • Cause: the teammate is set to No access under One teammate at a time, or the account is not connected.
  • Fix: you or an Administrator opens Manage scope and changes the teammate’s row. If the account is missing, connect it again.
Connecting or saving fails with “Your subscription isn’t active.”
  • Cause: your Squad subscription is not active.
  • Fix: the owner fixes the subscription on the lock screen: Update card after a failed payment, or Subscribe again after it ended. See Use the lock screen.
A teammate says the Basecamp connection has expired.
  • Cause: the sign-in for that account is no longer valid.
  • Fix: click Reconnect on the account row, or open the account menu (⋯) and click Reconnect.

Common questions

You cannot choose a narrower level for Basecamp. You can block single teammates with No access under One teammate at a time.
Click + Account on the Basecamp card to connect another account. Teammates try the main account first unless they are asked to use a specific one. When other people are in your squad, a person’s own accounts come before shared accounts.
Open the account menu (⋯) on the Basecamp account and click Disconnect…. A dialog asks you to confirm and says “Your teammates lose access to Basecamp through this account.” Click Disconnect. Teammates then lose access to that account at once.

Connect apps

Add an MCP server or an API key

Use this when an action you need is not in this app.