Acumatica is a robust system with many feature sets, rich functionality and an impressive feature roadmap to keep improving year over year. However, I didn’t list one of my favorite features of the product just yet, because I want it to be the focus of this blogpost: high integration capability
One of the coolest features of the product is that it has open source code. If you’ve got the chops and ambition, you can integrate anything you want in the software, right within the software.
“That sounds great, but also sounds expensive to build from scratch”
That is very true. While a highly specialized, custom-built integration can have costs to stand up and develop. That’s where the other obvious option comes into play, at a much faster development and low impact to the software: software-wide API functionality. If you can see it on the screen in Acumatica, you can interact with it through an API touchpoint. Need to make a custom field that isn’t on the API endpoint? You can easily add it in less than 30 minutes.
This API endpoint functionality in Acumatica makes it a prime candidate to use with something like Make.com. Make, previously Integromat, is a 3rd party integrator tool that has over 100 prebuild connector apps, but allows for HTML requests to any open API endpoint. With the rapid customizability of Acumatica’s endpoints, make.com’s automatic JSON parsing, logic flow, scheduling and logging tools, you have a rapid onboarding to any integration quickly and with low/no code.
One use case we recently used make.com for was to retrieve new purchase orders from Acumatica and auto parse them from JSON into a generated XML structure. Once we had that there, we were able to pass this new XML payload to a third-party vendor for fulfillment. This was one of the fastest integrations we’ve ever built, and with some of the most robust error handling we’ve seen.
The future of integrations come in many forms. These days, you can find pre-built connectors that are built to be plug and play. However, your business may find a need that doesn’t have a pre-built connector. Using Acumatica’s incredibly flexible integration tools and make.com’s rapid integration development, your time-to-live on new integrations are faster than ever.
If you’d like a demo of this tool and how it can interact with Acumatica. One single interaction with the software opened up dozens of different scenarios that felt too high of a cost before. With Make.com and Acumatica, your costs are optimized, timeline is prioritized, and your is business elevated.