How to Connect Your App to a Live Scoreboard

Why connect your app to a scoreboard

Manually typing scores doesn't scale. If your data already lives in an app, database, CRM, or game, connecting it directly to a live scoreboard means rankings update automatically — no copy-paste, no stale numbers, no human in the loop.

Step 1: Create the scoreboard

Set up a board on BoardQ and note its ID and API key. The board handles ranking, real-time updates, and the display.

Step 2: Decide what triggers an update

• On an event — a deal closes, a game ends, a task completes → fire an update immediately
• On a schedule — a cron job that reads your database every few minutes
• Via webhook — your CRM or app calls out whenever data changes

Step 3: Send the score

From your backend, make an authenticated API call with the participant and their new value whenever the trigger fires. That's the whole integration — a few lines of code in the place your data already changes.

Step 3 (alt): Sync from a spreadsheet

If your source of truth is a Google Sheet, a small Apps Script can read rows and push them to the board on a timer. See turning a Google Sheet into a live leaderboard.

Step 4: Display it anywhere

Open the board on a TV, embed it in your app, or drop the link in Slack. Every connected viewer sees updates the moment your app sends them. For embedding, see how to display real-time scores on a website.

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