Link Customer to Existing COPS Account

Create or go to Customer Record

You must first create the customer in SecurityTrax in order to link it to an existing customer at COPS Monitoring.

To learn more on how to create a customer in SecurityTrax, see Customer Creation.

To learn more on how to locate and go to a customer record in SecurityTrax, see Customer Records.

Add a COPS Monitoring Account Number

While in the SecurityTrax customer record, follow these steps:

1. Select the Customer tab.
2. Navigate to the Central Station section.
3. Click the Edit icon and select COPS Monitoring from the Monitored by dropdown list (if you haven't already) Note: The name of the monitoring company may be different as that is the name entered manually by the admin who set up the integration within SecurityTrax.
4. Enter the COPS Monitoring account number in the Account Number field.
5. Click Save.

Link Customer to Existing COPS Monitoring Account

After adding the COPS Monitoring account number as described above you can now link the customer account within SecurityTrax to the existing account at COPS Monitoring by following these steps:

1. On the Dropdown icon  next to the Shell Account button, select Link Account. 
2. There are 2 possible outcomes here:
   • If there is no account that matches with COPS Monitoring, you will get a message telling you so. You will need to contact COPS Monitoring for help with this.
   • If there is an account found, you will see a Discrepancies page. This page will list any discrepancies between what is in SecurityTrax and what is in COPS Monitoring database. Note: If there are any discrepancies, the information in SecurityTrax will overwrite the information in the COPS database.
3. To continue and link the account, select Link.

The account is now linked.