diff --git a/app/models/external-service.ts b/app/models/external-service.ts
index 4e407ec41b0..cd502358795 100644
--- a/app/models/external-service.ts
+++ b/app/models/external-service.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ export enum CredentialsFormat {
     ACCESS_SECRET_KEYS = 'ACCESS_KEY_SECRET_KEY',
     REPO_TOKEN = 'PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN',
     DATAVERSE_API_TOKEN = 'DATAVERSE_API_TOKEN',
-    URL_USERNAME_PASSWORD = 'url_username_password',
 }
 
 export enum ExternalServiceCapabilities {
diff --git a/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/component.ts b/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/component.ts
index 91586890fa7..8f5893cc9c8 100644
--- a/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/component.ts
+++ b/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/component.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export default class AddonAccountSetupComponent extends Component<Args> {
 
     @tracked selectedRepo?: string;
     @tracked otherRepo?: string;
-    @tracked url?: string;
+    @tracked url?: string = this.args.account?.apiBaseUrl;
     @tracked newAccount?: AllAuthorizedAccountTypes;
     @tracked pendingOauth = false;
     @tracked credentialsObject: AddonCredentialFields = {};
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export default class AddonAccountSetupComponent extends Component<Args> {
     }
 
     get showUrlField() {
-        return this.args.provider.credentialsFormat === CredentialsFormat.URL_USERNAME_PASSWORD;
+        return this.args.provider.configurableApiRoot;
     }
 
     otherRepoLabel = this.intl.t('addons.accountCreate.other-repo-label');
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ export default class AddonAccountSetupComponent extends Component<Args> {
         const credentials = this.credentialsObject;
         const t = this.intl.t.bind(this.intl);
         switch (this.args.provider.credentialsFormat) {
-        case CredentialsFormat.USERNAME_PASSWORD, CredentialsFormat.URL_USERNAME_PASSWORD: {
+        case CredentialsFormat.USERNAME_PASSWORD: {
             const passwordPostText = t('addons.accountCreate.password-post-text');
             return [
                 {
diff --git a/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/template.hbs b/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/template.hbs
index a2c450405e8..9791769a082 100644
--- a/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/template.hbs
+++ b/lib/osf-components/addon/components/addons-service/addon-account-setup/template.hbs
@@ -93,14 +93,13 @@
                             {{t 'addons.accountCreate.url-label'}}
                         </label>
                         <div local-class='post-text'>
-                            {{t 'addons.accountCreate.owncloud-url-post-text' htmlSafe=true }}
+                            {{t 'addons.accountCreate.url-post-text' htmlSafe=true }}
                         </div>
                         <Input
                             id={{url-id}}
                             data-test-input='url'
                             local-class='input'
                             name='url'
-                            placeholder={{t 'addons.accountCreate.url-placeholder'}}
                             @type='text'
                             @value={{this.url}}
                         />
diff --git a/mirage/fixtures/external-storage-services.ts b/mirage/fixtures/external-storage-services.ts
index a6d2ea348df..e58a4a2418a 100644
--- a/mirage/fixtures/external-storage-services.ts
+++ b/mirage/fixtures/external-storage-services.ts
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export default [
     {
         id: 'owncloud',
         displayName: 'ownCloud',
-        credentialsFormat: CredentialsFormat.URL_USERNAME_PASSWORD,
+        credentialsFormat: CredentialsFormat.USERNAME_PASSWORD,
         supportedFeatures: [
             ExternalServiceCapabilities.ADD_UPDATE_FILES,
             ExternalServiceCapabilities.DELETE_FILES,
diff --git a/mirage/views/addons.ts b/mirage/views/addons.ts
index ca977b44151..ce57d70e72c 100644
--- a/mirage/views/addons.ts
+++ b/mirage/views/addons.ts
@@ -467,14 +467,6 @@ function fakeCheckCredentials(
             throw new Error('Username and password are required');
         }
         break;
-    case CredentialsFormat.URL_USERNAME_PASSWORD:
-        if (!attrs.apiBaseUrl || !credentials.username || !credentials.password) {
-            throw new Error('URL, username, and password are required');
-        }
-        if (attrs.apiBaseUrl.indexOf('http') < 0) {
-            throw new Error('Invalid URL');
-        }
-        break;
     default: // OAuth or OAuth2 should be authorized using the address found in authUrl. Faked below for mirage
         return false;
     }
diff --git a/tests/acceptance/settings/addons-test.ts b/tests/acceptance/settings/addons-test.ts
index 4ec4877fe16..88134ca0194 100644
--- a/tests/acceptance/settings/addons-test.ts
+++ b/tests/acceptance/settings/addons-test.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ module('Acceptance | settings | addons', hooks => {
             {
                 id: 'owncloud',
                 displayName: 'ownCloud',
-                credentialsFormat: CredentialsFormat.URL_USERNAME_PASSWORD,
+                credentialsFormat: CredentialsFormat.USERNAME_PASSWORD,
                 supportedFeatures: [
                     ExternalServiceCapabilities.ADD_UPDATE_FILES,
                     ExternalServiceCapabilities.DELETE_FILES,
diff --git a/translations/en-us.yml b/translations/en-us.yml
index 85941078e2c..046bfb5453a 100644
--- a/translations/en-us.yml
+++ b/translations/en-us.yml
@@ -312,8 +312,7 @@ addons:
         display-name-placeholder: 'Account name'
         display-name-help: 'This is help text for the display name'
         url-label: 'Host URL'
-        url-placeholder: 'owncloud.example.org'
-        owncloud-url-post-text: 'Only ownCloud instances supporting <a href="https://doc.owncloud.com/">WebDAV</a> and <a href"https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services-1.7/">OCS v1.7</a> are supported.'
+        url-post-text: 'Please include <i>http</i> or <i>https</i>'
         username-label: 'Username'
         password-label: 'Password'
         username-placeholder: 'Username'