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eSPACE

eSPACE HVAC Management

eSPACE HVAC Integration

eSPACE's Church Facility Management software can help you more efficiently manage and steward your facilities while leveraging and updating your MinistryPlatform data! eSPACE's HVAC integration pulls room schedules from MinistryPlatform and sends commands to building automation systems or thermostats to automatically control heating and cooling (HVAC) based on individual room schedules.

Cost

There is no charge from ACS Technologies for configuring the integration.

Fees from eSPACE are assessed as per each church's individual contract agreement.

MinistryPlatform Changes

Once configured, you'll see Lookup Values > External Identities in your MinistryPlatform database (mapping table).

Integration Considerations

eSPACE begins polling MinistryPlatform every 15 minutes and pulls in two days' worth of approved events and rooms.

The following fields sync as part of the Integration from MinistryPlatform to eSPACE:

  • Event Title
  • Location
  • Setup Time
  • Teardown Time
  • Start Time
  • End Time
  • Rooms

HVAC solutions that this integration works with are BAS that speaks BACnet, a JACE, or a few different thermostats. Some solutions may require you to purchase additional hardware.

Support

Support is provided by eSPACE at support@smartchurchsolutions.com and the eSPACE integration team at integrations@coolsolutionsgroup.com.

See Also

Step 1: In MinistryPlatform

Tip: Best Practice is to create a NEW company contact using the Add/Edit Company tool, then create a NEW user for each integration. Set up your API Client before configuring this integration. Be sure to grant Administrative rights to the new API user!
  1. In the navigation menu, click Administration > API Clients.
  2. Click New.
  3. Enter eSPACE for Display Name and Client ID.
  4. Enter a Client Secret. This is the "password" used by eSPACE to access your MinistryPlatform database.
    Tip: We recommend using the Password Generator to generate a secure value. Click the magic wand icon wand with surrounding stars beside the field to open the Password Generator and select the options you want.
  5. Select a Client User. Choose: API, API | Login: apiuser
    Note: The Client User you choose or create must have a Security Role with Administrator rights.
  6. For Authentication Flow, select Authorization Code, Implicit, Hybrid, Client Credentials, or Resource Owner. All other settings can remain the same.
  7. Click Save.

Step 2: In eSPACE

  1. Go to Settings > Other > Integrations > ChMS, and select MinistryPlatform.
  2. Enter the appropriate credentials (Base URL, Client ID, and Client Secret).
    Note: Your base URL is your Platform URL without "/mp" at the end. For example, if your MinistryPlatform URL is https://example-church.ministryplatform.net/mp, your Platform base URL would be https://example-church.ministryplatform.net.
  3. Once complete, email the eSPACE integration team, and they will enable the required MinistryPlatform fields to include with each event.
    eSPACE syncs spaces (all individually under Settings > Basic) from MinistryPlatform.
  4. You can import your MinistryPlatform events into eSPACE, but it is not required.

You can now use the integration to sync MinistryPlatform event and room usage to eSPACE.

Important: Existing eSPACE Users: Make sure you spell ALL Rooms exactly the same (including spaces) in both systems to prevent duplicates in eSPACE.

Starting 15 minutes after you enter the first data source, eSPACE will poll MinistryPlatform every 15 minutes to pull in your approved events and rooms.

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Last updated: April 10, 2025