API integration services
Our API integration services connect the systems your business already uses, so data moves between them without copying and pasting: CRM, ERP, payments such as UPI and M-Pesa, WhatsApp and Google Sheets.
Systems that do not talk to each other cost time and cause errors. We connect them through their APIs, test each connection with real records, and add alerts so your team knows when something fails. Where a system has no API for what you need, we tell you and suggest the next-best route.
For example: paid orders from your online store appearing in your accounting system and a Google Sheet, without anyone copying them across.
An illustration of the kind of work we do, not a client project.
After an order is paid today
BeforeConnected
AfterWhat our integration services include
- CRMContactA retail shopCustomerkept in stepERPCustomerA retail shop
CRM and ERP connections
Customers, orders and invoices kept in step between your CRM, ERP and accounting system.
- Your order: 2 itemsPay withUPICardNet bankingPay now
Payment integrations
UPI, M-Pesa and regional gateways connected to your store, app or invoicing, with payment status sent back.
- WhatsAppYour order has shipped. Track it here: linkGoogle SheetA retail shopShipped
WhatsApp and Google Sheets
Order updates and reminders on WhatsApp, and live data in the Google Sheets your team already uses.
- POST/ordersCreate an ordercustomer: text, requireditems: list, requireddeliver_by: dateReturns the order and its status
Custom APIs, with documentation
An API for your partners or your own apps, documented so another developer can use it.
- CRM connection needs attentionOrder from A retail shop is waitingNothing lost: it will retry, and your team has been told.
Alerts when a connection fails
If a connected system is down or rejects a record, your team is told and nothing is silently lost.
- Test reportAll passedPasses on your real dataHandles empty and wrong inputMatches the agreed scope
Tests for each integration
Each connection is tested with real records, including failures and duplicates.
Want this for your business?
Tell us what you need. A founder reads every enquiry and replies with questions or a proposed scope.
Who it’s for
Businesses entering the same data twice
Orders typed into the store, then the accounting system, then a spreadsheet.
Teams that want their tools connected
WhatsApp, payments or a CRM linked to the systems you already rely on.
Products that need an API for partners
Partners and resellers who need to place orders or read data from your system.
What you get at handover
Everything is handed over in your name, so you can run it, change it or move it to another team.
- The integrations, running in your own accounts
- A diagram of which system sends what, and when
- API documentation for any custom API
- The alert settings, and who receives each alert
- A written manual fallback for each connection
What we need from you
A project moves fastest when these are ready. We help you put together anything you do not have yet.
- 1A list of the systems to connect and what should move between them
- 2Admin or API access to each system
- 3Sample records for testing: orders, customers or invoices
- 4A named person to receive failure alerts
How an engagement runs
- Scope document
Scope: customer portal
What we deliver
- Customer sign-in, with roles
- Order status page
- Invoice downloads
Not includedMobile appDone whenTested with your real ordersAgreed by you before the build starts
- This week’s buildReady to view
This week’s increment
Order status page
feat: order status page
test: status for each order type
docs: how statuses are calculated
Next increment: invoice downloads
- Review checkpointOur reviewer
- Checked against the scope
- Tests read and run
- Ready for you
Your approval
Approve milestoneRequest changes - Handover pack
Code repository
In your account
Credentials record
Transferred to you
Documentation
What was built and how
Runbook
Deploy, roll back, fix common problems
Maintenance available on a monthly plan
Scope: customer portal
What we deliver
- Customer sign-in, with roles
- Order status page
- Invoice downloads
Agreed by you before the build starts
What affects the cost
We quote after a scoping conversation, so there is no fixed price on the site. These are the factors that move the cost of this work up or down; the proposal states the scope, what is not included and the price.
Technologies we commonly use
- REST and webhook APIs
- UPI and regional payment gateways
- M-Pesa
- WhatsApp Business messaging
- Google Sheets
- Python and TypeScript
- Number of systems and directions
- A one-way sync between two systems is smaller than a two-way sync across four.
- Quality of each system’s API
- Well-documented APIs are quicker to connect than older systems without one.
- Volume and timing
- Real-time updates and high volumes need more careful design than a nightly sync.
- Data mapping
- How different the systems’ fields are, and how much clean-up the data needs.
- Monitoring and alerts
- Who is told when something fails, and how.
Questions
The ones your customers use, including UPI in India, M-Pesa in East Africa and regional gateways elsewhere. We confirm the provider’s API during scoping.
Integrations can break when the other side changes. A monthly maintenance plan covers the fixes and updates when that happens.
Usually, through its API or its import and export options. We check what your version allows during scoping, before any build starts.
Connections use each system’s secure API, credentials stay in your accounts or an approved vault, and we move only the fields the integration needs.
It alerts your named person, the record waits rather than disappearing, and the written manual fallback explains what to do until it is fixed.
Tell us what you want to build.
Describe the work. We will scope it with you, or tell you plainly if it is not work we should take on.