Best Practice - Choosing Integrations

Adding integrations to your account is a great way to leverage Box’s open platform to do even more with your content. Plus, you can pick as many as you like.

Quick Tip: Consider the programs you're currently using - then search for those integrations in Box. You may be surprised at how many integrations are available!

Box Official Clients

Box Official Clients are integrations that are built directly by Box, using native Box APIs. Below are the main categories of Box Official Clients:

• Desktop
• Android
• iOS
• Server
• Mobile Web and Accessibility

Adding Integrations to Your Box Account

To find an integration, click your profile image (or initials) in the upper right-hand corner of your screen, and then click Integrations in the drop-down menu. From there, browse for what you’re seeking (or use the search field to find it directly).

To see the integrations you’ve already added, click My Integrations. You can add or remove integrations in one step.

Click on the integration name to read more about what it does, look at the screenshots to learn how it interacts with your Box account or read reviews to find out what other Box users have to say. We'll never charge you for integrations you've enabled, but some integrations do require a separate subscription to use.

Recommended Web Integrations displays a list of curated integrations that your account holders can use with files in Box. Using recommended web integrations saves time you might otherwise spend searching for an integration and figuring out how it works with Box, and also makes accessing a third-party integration functionality easier and faster.

Admins: Choosing Integrations for Your Enterprise

As an admin, you can customize the work environment for your users by enabling or disabling integrations.

Third-party integrations

To enable or disable third-party integrations, in the left-hand sidebar of your Admin Console, click Integrations. Then in the top of the window, click Box Integrations & Clients and scroll down to the Global Integrations Settings section.

The Individual Integration Controls section concerns integrations, such as Slack, Salesforce, or G Suite, that integrate with your Box account. They empower you seamlessly to edit documents, work with spreadsheets, digitally sign contracts, and more -- right from Box. By adding integrations to your account, you create a direct link between Box and your favorite services.

Box enables you to choose three states for third-party integrations in your enterprise.

• Disabled: Disabling an integration prevents your team from using the integration in their Box accounts. Use this setting if there’s an integration you do not want to be connected to your Box account.
  • We’re always partnering with third-party developers to bring you more useful integrations, so do keep an eye on the list of available ones in Integrations.
• Available: If an integration here is set to Available, your users can add it to their Box accounts. This is the default setting for all Box integrations.
• Added by Default: This setting automatically adds the integration to your users' Box accounts. Use this setting if you want all of your users to be able to access a specific integration immediately, or if your team is already using it and you need to link it by default to your account.

Global integration settings

Three options are available for added third-party integrations:

1. Integrations
2. Secure Connection
3. Default Editor

• To disable all integrations by default, check Disable Integrations by default. Integrations include all integrations in the Box Integrations and in the Admin Console under Integrations> Box Integrations & Clients
• To disable Web integrations that do not use a secure connection, check Require web integrations to use secure connections (SSL).
• Select which integrations to use for viewing Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Office files in the Default Editor section.

Box integrations

To enable or disable Box integrations, in the left-hand sidebar of your Admin Console, click Integrations. Then in the top of the window, click Box Integrations & Clients

In the Box Official Clients section, you can quickly locate and disable the integrations of Box apps (Box Drive, Box Mobile, Box Notes, and so on) specifically. By default Box integrations are enabled, and we do not recommend you disable them.