Common integration tasks
Almost every ERP integration is four jobs: orders out, stock in, prices in, customer master in. Exactly one of them wants the REST API record by record — the other three are files, and building them as API loops is how a project meets the rate limit on its first full data load.
The first article is the workhorse: each job with its resource, roughly what comes back, the webhook alternative and the trap. The second covers the outbound half — nightly extracts, formats, and the two that quietly run out of memory at volume. The third is the testing that decides whether a bad night costs ten minutes or a week, and a go-live checklist you can hold an integrator to.
- Common API tasks, by job — Orders out, stock in, prices in, customers in — the recipes.
- Bulk exports — Everything, nightly, for BI.
- Test an integration end to end — Sandbox, fixtures, the checklist.
Set up a sandbox
Request the tenant, seed it with a catalog nobody can be identified from, issue disposable keys, and agree the refresh cadence before the integrator starts.
Common API tasks, by job
Orders out, stock in, prices in, customer master in — the four jobs almost every ERP integration is made of, each with the resource, the shape, the webhook alternative and the trap.