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API Development Timeline

Support Desk
posted this on June 16, 2011 17:13

Applications for the API Beta are now closed. The API is now being tested by a diverse group of partners and users. We expect to be opening this up to a larger test group in Early September. Stay tuned here for further updates. 

 

It's truly amazing what integrated software solutions can do nowadays. Every purchase, every message, every tweet, can travel from their native service to just about any other place on the web, automatically and autonomously. This is done through a network of integrations that take the broad expanse of SaaS offerings and knits them into an even greater web of functionality. The backbone of this network is a standard called an API. This is the term given to the tools provided by companies for gaining access to the functionality of their software from an outside source. If you've sent a tweet from your favourite blog with a link to a great article, shared your current song selection on an online radio station, or sent a twitter message from a third-party application, you were using an API.

 

Unleashed is currently working on our very own API, and this is big news for anyone looking to easily manage their stock. Potential uses of this API are centralized stock quantity, pricing, and value information from your e-commerce site, functionality that even the big players only dream of. Never complete an order you can't fulfill, never guess on your margin, never lose out on your profit, this is what Unleashed integrated with your CMS/webstore can give you.

 

So when do you get a crack at such useful functionality?

 

1st Cut: Targeted Date for Public Beta Release July 31st 2011.

What it will do: 

  • Login securely to your Unleashed account from any site using the API.
  • Get a list of your customers populated in any other location.
  • Put locally-created customers back into your Unleashed master list. 
  • Get your product list from Unleashed, great for displaying on your webstore, and avoids double-handling.
  • Any changes to those products, or even brand-new ones, are synced back to your master product list in Unleashed. 
  • Sales from your webstore will be put back into your Unleashed account automatically as parked invoices. 

 

2nd Cut: Targeted Date for Public Beta Release September 30th 2011.

What it will do:
  • Stock on Hand quantities can be retrieved from your Unleashed account and displayed anywhere you want.
  • Credits issued from another site will be entered in your Unleashed account. 

 

3rd Cut: Targeted Date for Public Beta Release November 30th 2011.

What it will do:
  • Get Sales and Purchase Data for display or use wherever else you integrate the API.
  • Suppliers can be both be retrieved from and put back into Unleashed, in the same way as Customers. 
  • Purchases made outside of Unleashed can be automatically pushed back into your account as parked Purchase Orders.