What does API development and integration include?
Designing and building the endpoints themselves, authentication and permissions, the connections between your tools, plus documentation and monitoring. Where a third-party service already offers an API, we connect to it rather than duplicating what it does.
How long does an integration project take?
A single connection between two well-behaved systems usually takes two to four weeks. Multiple systems, legacy software, or complex data mapping extend that, and we confirm a timeline after the data mapping stage.
Can you integrate with software that has no API?
Often, yes. Common options are file exports, database access where permitted, or a scheduled sync. We assess what the vendor allows and set out the trade-offs before committing to an approach.
Who owns the API and the data?
You do. Source code, repositories, credentials, and accounts remain in your name, with documentation and handover so your team can maintain and extend the interfaces independently.
Do you build the APIs as well as integrate with other people’s?
Yes, both. We design and document APIs for your own systems and applications, and we integrate with third-party services — payment providers, accounting, CRM, shipping, marketing platforms — through their published interfaces, handling authentication, rate limits, and their error responses.
How do you keep the connection secure?
Transport encryption, scoped credentials, and signed or token-based authentication are standard. Access is limited to what each integration needs, secrets stay out of source code, and logs record who changed what without exposing sensitive values.
How do you handle API rate limits when syncing large amounts of data?
We design the integration around each provider's published limits, batching records, spacing requests, and queuing work so a burst of activity does not trigger blocks. Where an API allows it, we sync incrementally so only changed records move rather than the whole dataset each time. Retries and backoff are built in, and anything that still fails is logged for review.
How do you test that the data moving between systems stays accurate?
Before launch we run a reconciliation check that compares totals and sample records on both sides, then repeat it after each change. Errors, duplicates, and mismatches are flagged automatically so they surface early instead of silently skewing a report. You receive the test results alongside the handover documentation.