Not surprisingly, many of the systems we develop don’t operate in a vacuum. Although it’s possible your inventory control system might not need to talk to any other resources, it’s unlikely. Hence the need for integrated services. One of the ones we work with most frequently is SendGrid. SendGrid is an SMTP mailer. There are of course competitors, but SendGrid has always stood us well. Many systems we develop need to send outbound email traffic to the management team and/or customers or other stakeholders. Although it’s possible to use your gmail account to send this traffic it’s problematic and subject to relay blocking and poor deliverability. With SendGrid you designate SendGrid as an authorized sender on your behalf using DNS entries. Then we use various SendGrid APIs to smoothly route any outbound email efficiently, with a strong reputation score and many tools to track deliverability and recipient engagement. To make all this happen we help to get you signed up with your own SendGrid account and then use API keys from within that account to send email automatically from within your system on your behalf.

Another feature that our clients often require is a payment processing portal. If your project plans to collect payments for items or services we’ll likely need to integrate your application with a payment processor. As with SMTP Mailers like SendGrid there are many alternatives such as Authorize.net and Sage. However, our preferred option, if the client doesn’t have a preference, is Stripe. Stripe offers a ton of features, detailed reporting and the ability to send incoming payments to multiple entities thus offering very sophisticated routing options for your funds. It’s easy to see what’s coming in and out each month, create monthly recurring payments and much more all through API communication that we integrate into your project.

If your system needs to store millions of documents (MS Word, PDFs, Excel docs, etc.) then you may need an integration to a document storage repository such as AWS S3. S3 storage containers provide low cost storage solutions for custom document storage and retrieval. We’ve helped create integrated API solutions for customers where they have terabytes of documents spanning a decade or more and need quick and easy retrieval to those documents within their system.

The above is just a taste of all the things to which we can connect your custom software development project. Most modern businesses expect and encourage you to interact with their platforms via automated Rest API traffic . They provide robust support and myriad APIs with which to do so. Then we help wire it all together. So, if you have a need to get data from A to B to C we can help you accomplish that task and do so every day. As we like to say “If you can imagine it, we can build it!” If you need more information please visit our Contact Us Page and reach out.