There are two halves to this. One is publishing an API of your own so that a partner, a mobile app or another department can reach your data under rules you set. The other is consuming somebody else's, whether that is a payment gateway, a courier, an accounting package or a government portal.
For an API we build for you, we design the endpoints around what callers actually need rather than exposing your database table by table. Authentication is by key or OAuth depending on who is calling, every endpoint is rate limited, and the whole thing ships with written documentation and a sandbox so the other side can develop against it without touching live data.
For an integration into a service you already use, the work is mostly in the parts nobody demonstrates: what happens when the other end is down, when it returns something unexpected, when a request succeeds but the response never arrives, and how you find out. Retries are queued rather than hammered, everything is logged with the payload, and failures raise an alert instead of sitting quietly.
Where a proper API does not exist, we say so and fall back to scheduled file exchange, which is less elegant and considerably more reliable than pretending otherwise.
What is included
- Endpoint design agreed before any code is written
- Authentication by API key or OAuth 2.0, with scopes
- Rate limiting, request logging and error handling
- Webhooks with signed payloads and replay protection
- Retry queues for anything that can fail in transit
- Sandbox environment and written API documentation
- Versioning, so a change does not break existing callers
- Monitoring that tells you when an integration stops working
Is this the right service for you?
Send us a paragraph about the situation. If a different service fits better, or if you would be better off buying something off the shelf, we will say so before quoting.