API Development & Integration

API development here means building the layer your systems use to talk to each other and to your partners: your store to your inventory, your app to your accounting, you to the courier. A good interface turns an integration into a matter of days rather than a project each time.

When you need one

When you find yourself moving data between two systems by hand, when a business partner asks for an integration and you have nothing to hand them, or when you want others to build on you. If you have two systems and their integration already exists, automation is cheaper than building an interface.

What makes one dependable

Documentation good enough for a developer who has never met you to build against, errors that explain themselves rather than a generic message, versioning so your update does not break the people depending on you, and rate limits so one misuse cannot take it down.

Security

Per-consumer access keys that can be revoked individually, permissions scoped to what each consumer actually needs, and a record of who requested what and when. An open interface without limits is the fastest route to leaking your data.

What you receive

A working interface, interactive documentation that can be tried directly, a test environment separate from production, and a stable first version that can be built on without fear of it changing tomorrow.