Integrations

Software Integrations

Most business software does not work alone. It has to exchange data with couriers, payment providers, notification services, accounting systems and whatever else you already run.

We build those connections — and, just as importantly, we build them to keep working when the other side is slow, rate-limited or down.

What integration work covers

Connecting systems, and keeping them connected.

  • Courier and shipping APIs
  • Payments and collections
  • Notifications to customers
  • Accounting, ERP and e-commerce

What an integration actually is

An integration is an agreement between two systems about how they will exchange information — what is sent, in what format, when, and what happens if the message does not arrive.

The connection itself is usually the straightforward part. What decides whether an integration is worth having is its behaviour on a bad day: when a provider times out, changes a field, rate-limits you, or returns success and then does nothing. An integration that only works when everything is healthy will quietly corrupt your data instead of failing visibly.

Every integration depends on the other party. What can be connected, and how deeply, comes down to what that provider's API exposes and what your account with them permits. We confirm that during requirement analysis rather than assuming it — which is why you will not find a grid of logos on this page.

Integration categories

The kinds of systems business software usually needs to talk to.

Courier & Shipping APIs

Shipment booking, AWB and label generation, serviceability and pincode checks, rate lookup, tracking and webhooks. Our courier platform supports integration with multiple partners, including examples such as DTDC, DHL and Delhivery — subject to API availability, credentials and permissions.

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Payment Gateways

Online collection, payment status reconciliation and refunds. The important part is reconciliation: knowing which payment belongs to which order, including when a customer pays twice or a callback is missed.

SMS, WhatsApp & Email

Booking confirmations, out-for-delivery alerts, delivery confirmation and OTP delivery. Available channels depend on the providers you use and their own approval requirements, which for WhatsApp in particular are not trivial.

Accounting & ERP

Pushing invoices, payments and ledger entries into the system your finance team already uses, so operations data does not get re-typed — which is where most reconciliation disputes originate.

E-commerce Platforms

Pulling orders in and pushing shipment and tracking details back, so a store and a fulfilment operation stay in step without anyone exporting a spreadsheet.

Maps & GPS Data

Address lookup, distance and travel-time estimates, and vehicle position where compatible tracking hardware or a suitable data source is available. The software consumes that data; it does not replace the device.

How we build an integration

The same discipline regardless of provider. Most of it exists to handle the other side behaving badly.

01

Confirm what is possible

Read the provider's documentation, check what your account permits, and establish what genuinely cannot be done. This happens before any estimate, not after.

02

Handle credentials properly

Keys and tokens stored securely per provider and per environment, never hard-coded and never shared between sandbox and production.

03

Make retries safe

Retries use backoff, and requests carry an idempotency key so a timeout cannot create a second shipment or a second payment.

04

Normalise what comes back

Each provider's vocabulary is mapped into your own model, and anything unrecognised is surfaced for review rather than silently discarded.

05

Queue instead of failing

Work that cannot complete goes to a queue, so a provider outage delays an operation rather than losing it.

06

Log and alert

Requests, responses and failures logged, with alerting, so you find out a provider changed their API before your customers do.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Commonly courier and shipping APIs, payment gateways, SMS, WhatsApp and email providers, accounting and ERP systems, e-commerce platforms, and mapping or GPS data sources. What is possible in each case depends on what that provider's API exposes and what your account with them permits.

Sometimes. Where there is no API, options include a database-level integration, scheduled file exchange, or a provider-supported export and import. These are less robust than an API and that trade-off should be understood before committing to one.

That depends on which partners publish an API and what your account with them allows. Our courier platform supports integration with multiple vendors, including examples such as DTDC, DHL and Delhivery. Specific integrations are confirmed during project planning.

A single well-documented provider is a contained piece of work. Several providers with different authentication, formats and status models take considerably longer, and normalising what comes back is usually the largest part of the job.

A well-built integration queues the work, retries with backoff, and alerts someone. What it must not do is fail silently or block your operation entirely while a third party is unavailable.

Because timeouts are common: your system may not receive a response even though the action succeeded. Without an idempotency key, the retry creates a second shipment or takes a second payment.

Yes, and it matters — providers change their APIs, deprecate endpoints and alter status codes. An integration is an ongoing commitment rather than a one-off delivery.

Frequently that is the better option. If a system you already run works and exposes a way in, connecting to it is lower risk and lower cost than replacing everything at once.

Tell us what needs connecting

Name the systems and what should flow between them. We will confirm what their APIs actually allow before quoting, so you are not told yes and then told otherwise halfway through.