Services
Make your systems work as one.
Accounting, payments, CRM, stock, shipping, booking: most businesses use several tools that each hold part of the picture. We connect them through their APIs so data flows by itself and stays correct.
Problems we solve
Why integrations go wrong, and how we avoid it.
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Data is copied between systems by hand
Each manual transfer is a chance for delay or error. A direct connection sends changes as they happen.
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An existing integration breaks quietly
Silent failures leave systems out of step for days. We build in logging and alerts so problems are seen immediately.
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A supplier or partner offers only a clumsy interface
Whether it is a modern API or a scheduled file drop, we find a dependable way to exchange the information.
Example scenarios
Connections we might build.
Illustrative situations to show what this work can look like. They are not client case studies.
- Orders into accounting
- Paid orders from an online shop create invoices and payments in the accounting package automatically.
- A public API for your own product
- A documented, versioned API with authentication and rate limits, so customers or partners can build on your service.
- Stock levels shared across channels
- One source of truth for inventory, pushed out to each sales channel so you stop overselling.
How we approach it
Built to cope when the other side fails.
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Read the documentation, then test it
We check how the other system really behaves, including limits, errors and quirks, before designing around it.
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Decide who owns each piece of data
Clear rules for which system is the source of truth prevent conflicting updates.
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Retry safely
Requests are queued and can be repeated without creating duplicates, so temporary outages cause delay rather than loss.
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Watch it run
Every exchange is logged, failures raise alerts and there is a simple way to replay anything that was missed.
Technologies
Tools chosen for the job.
Standard web protocols and careful error handling matter more than any one product.
- REST and JSON
- Webhooks
- OAuth 2
- Laravel HTTP client
- Queues and retries
- API documentation
- Request logging
Questions
Common questions.
- What if the other system has no API?
- Sometimes files, email or a database export can do the job. We will tell you which options are realistic and what each one costs.
- How are credentials kept safe?
- Keys and tokens are stored encrypted outside the code, limited to the access needed and rotated when people or suppliers change.
- What happens when a third party changes its API?
- Monitoring picks up the failures quickly, and because each connection is isolated in one place, updates are small and quick to test.
Keep exploring
Related reading and services.
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Have something you need built?
Tell us what you are trying to achieve. We will reply with honest questions, a clear view of the options and a sensible next step.