# Working with Pinterest

## Getting Started with Pinterest

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When you first sign up for a Canoa account, you will be prompted to create your first Canvas where you will be able to integrate your Pinterest account with your Canoa account. This workflow allows you to easily collect, add, and design with your pins as products directly inside your Canvas, keeping your collections all in one place.&#x20;

1. [<mark style="color:purple;">**Create**</mark>](https://www.canoa.supply/signup) a Canoa account for free.
2. Click `Import your Pins` when you first sign in.
3. **Authorize** the Canoa App to have access to your Pinterest account.&#x20;
4. Choose which Pinterest board to select your pins from.
5. Select your pins to bring into Canvas.&#x20;

{% hint style="info" %}
There is a limit of 100 pins per import. There is no limit on how many imports, just 100 pins at a time.
{% endhint %}

6. Click `Import` in the bottom right corner of the pop up window.

You'll now be taken to your new, blank Canvas where your pins will import onto the page. After the import is complete, your pins are now automatically saved as products. If you have a Pro, Unlimited, or Custom account, you can also access and refer back to these products in **My Catalog** at any time. If you have an Individual, free account, you will just be able to access these pins on this Canvas.

## Import your Pinterest Pins in Canvas

You can pull from your Pinterest account any time you are in a Canvas on Canoa. Bringing Pinterest and Canoa closer together helps speed up the inspiration to specification workflow and allows you to collect your favorites from one great tool to another. Here's how:

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1. [<mark style="color:purple;">**Sign in**</mark>](https://www.canoa.supply/signup) to your existing account.
2. Open a Canvas.
3. In the top toolbar, click on the `Import` icon. Then click `Pinterest`.
4. **Authorize** the Canoa App to have access to your Pinterest account.&#x20;
5. Choose which Pinterest board to select your pins from.
6. Select your pins to bring into Canvas.&#x20;

{% hint style="info" %}
There is a limit of 100 pins per import. There is no limit on how many imports, just 100 pins at a time.
{% endhint %}

7. Click `Import` in the bottom right corner of the pop up window.
8. Click `Add to Canvas` when your pins are done importing.
9. Place your pins on your Canvas.

The pins you brought into Canvas are now automatically saved as products. If you have a Pro, Unlimited, or Custom account, you can also access and refer back to these products in **My Catalog** at any time. If you have an Individual, free account, you will only be able to access these pins on this Canvas.

### **More about integrating Canoa and Pinterest**

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* The integration is one-way and not bidirectional.
  * The pins are imported into Canvas, automatically saved as products in My Catalog, and live on the Canvas. There is no automatic updating that happens from your Pinterest account directly into a Canvas.
* To disconnect your Pinterest account, there is a `Log Out` button in the Pinterest modal on the top left of the pop out window.
* When you log out of your Pinterest account, you can always log back in or into another Pinterest account. The pins you have previously imported into Canvas will not be deleted from that Canvas or My Catalog.
* Clicking on the `Import` > `Pinterest` in the toolbar will open up your boards and pins again if they you have already connected your Pinterest account.