From Shopify order to shipping label to bank reconciliation — everything flows automatically.
We connect iDempiere to your storefronts, carriers, banks, tax portals and reporting tools — and we build every connector to be idempotent and replayable, so a dropped message or a duplicate webhook never corrupts your orders, stock or ledger.
Your storefront, your carriers, your bank and your tax portal all need to agree with iDempiere. The value of an integration is not that data moves — it is that the numbers reconcile at month-end without anyone re-keying an order or chasing a missing shipment.
A replayed webhook or re-sent file updates the same record instead of creating a second one.
Every inbound payload is stored, so you can safely re-run a bad batch after a fix.
A monitoring dashboard and alerts, not a silent failure discovered at month-end close.
We land external events on iDempiere's own document flow — a web order becomes a Sales Order, a dispatch becomes a Shipment, a settlement becomes a Payment against an Invoice — so integrated data behaves exactly like data keyed by hand. Connectors ship as upgrade-safe OSGi plugins that call iDempiere's REST API and web services, writing through staging tables rather than poking the live transactional data directly.
Most mid-market iDempiere sites run four to eight live integrations. These are the ones we are asked for most often, and where we already have working patterns.
Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Magento. Orders and customers flow in as Business Partners and C_Order documents; products, prices and Storage On Hand flow back out so the shop never oversells.
DHL, FedEx and UPS for rating, labels and tracking. A confirmed M_InOut requests a label; tracking numbers and delivery events return against the shipment.
X12 and EDIFACT for retail and automotive supply chains — 850/855/856/810 or ORDERS/DESADV/INVOIC — over AS2 or SFTP, mapped to iDempiere orders, shipments and invoices.
Card and wallet gateways for online capture, plus settlement files that reconcile against C_Payment, so the cash you banked matches the cash you recorded.
MT940 and CAMT.053 files parsed into C_BankStatement lines and matched to open payments and receipts, speeding up daily reconciliation.
India GST e-invoicing (IRN) and e-way bills via the IRP and NIC portals, plus third-party tax engines for cross-border rate determination on C_Invoice.
Sync accounts, contacts and opportunities with an external CRM, and push employees and cost centres from an HRMS — useful, as iDempiere's out-of-the-box HR is deliberately thin.
Read-only views or warehouse feeds for Power BI, Metabase and Superset, so analytics run off a reporting copy rather than the transactional database.
WMS, PIM, marketplaces and legacy in-house systems. If it speaks REST, SOAP, files or a database, we bridge it with the same patterns described below.
There is no single right integration pattern. We pick per interface based on how fresh the data must be, how much volume there is, and what the other system actually supports.
The default for anything interactive and low-latency. We use iDempiere's REST API to create and read documents, and consume partner REST or webhook endpoints. Chosen when you need near-real-time flow — a shop order appearing in the ERP within seconds, or a stock level pushed back the moment it changes. It carries structured JSON well but depends on both ends being online.
The workhorse for batch and for partners who only exchange files — most EDI, many bank statements, and marketplace exports. Files land on an SFTP endpoint, a scheduled job picks them up, validates and stages them. Chosen when volume is high, timing is periodic, or the other side simply cannot offer an API. Robust and auditable, but inherently batch rather than instant.
A broker such as RabbitMQ or Kafka sits between the systems and buffers events. Chosen for high volume, spiky traffic, or when several consumers need the same event. The queue decouples producer from consumer, so iDempiere can be down for maintenance and no orders are lost — they wait in the queue and process on recovery. It adds infrastructure to run and watch.
A read-only PostgreSQL view or a replicated reporting copy exposed to a BI tool or an internal system. Chosen for reporting and analytics, where you want current data without an API round-trip and without risking writes. It is outbound and read-only by nature; we never let an external tool write straight into iDempiere's tables.
Networks drop. Webhooks fire twice. A partner re-sends yesterday's file. The difference between a calm integration and a corrupted ledger is entirely in how these ordinary faults are handled.
A webhook fires twice, or a partner re-sends yesterday's bank file — and without protection each duplicate becomes a second order or a double-booked receipt in your ledger.
Every inbound event carries a stable external key — the storefront's order id, the EDI interchange control number, the gateway's transaction reference. Anything already processed is treated as a no-op, so a message delivered three times still produces exactly one Sales Order.
A malformed file or one poison message can block everything queued behind it — or worse, slip invalid data straight into your orders, stock and books.
Raw payloads land in staging tables first and are promoted into real documents through iDempiere's model layer only after validation, so business rules and workflow still run. A message that keeps failing is quarantined in a dead-letter table — an audit trail of exactly what was sent — while good data keeps flowing.
Networks drop, portals go down for maintenance — and an interface that fails quietly is discovered weeks later, at month-end close, as numbers that do not reconcile.
Transient faults retry automatically with increasing delays, and because every payload is stored with its key, a whole day can be replayed safely once the other system recovers. A dashboard tracks throughput, lag and dead-letter counts, and alerts fire by email or chat the moment a feed backs up.
Honest note. Not everything can be real-time. Some carriers and most EDI exchanges are batch by nature, and portals like the GST IRP have their own rate limits and downtime windows. We are clear per interface about whether it is near-real-time or scheduled, and we design the reconciliation to match.
A working summary of how each integration behaves. Frequencies are indicative and depend on volume, the partner's limits and your reconciliation needs — they are confirmed during discovery.
| System | Direction | Typical objects exchanged | Sync frequency (indicative) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify / WooCommerce | Bi-directional | Orders and customers in; products, prices and stock out | Orders real-time via webhook; stock every 5–15 minutes |
| Carriers — DHL / FedEx / UPS | Bi-directional | Shipment & rate requests out; labels and tracking events in | Label on dispatch (real-time); tracking polled every 15–30 minutes or by webhook |
| EDI — X12 / EDIFACT | Bi-directional | 850/ORDERS and 855 in; 856/DESADV and 810/INVOIC out | Batch — every 15–60 minutes or on file arrival |
| Payment gateway | Bi-directional | Capture/authorisation out; payment confirmations and settlement files in | Authorisation real-time; settlement file nightly |
| Bank — MT940 / CAMT.053 | Inbound | Statement lines into C_BankStatement for matching | Nightly, or intraday where the bank provides it |
| GST e-invoicing (India) | Bi-directional | Invoice payload out; IRN, signed QR and e-way bill number in | On invoice completion (near-real-time, within portal limits) |
| CRM / HRMS | Bi-directional | Accounts, contacts, opportunities; employees and cost centres | Every 15–60 minutes, or nightly for master data |
| BI tool | Outbound (read-only) | Curated views and extracts for dashboards | Live view, or a scheduled nightly extract |
Note. These frequencies are indicative ranges for planning. Real-time here means seconds, not milliseconds; batch interfaces are timed to your operational rhythm rather than pushed artificially fast.
Different endpoints, same engineering standard — every interface is idempotent, replayable and loud when it fails.
Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento and custom carts — orders, stock, prices and invoices flow both ways automatically, in near real time.
See Real Deployments 02DHL, FedEx, UPS and regional carriers — label printing, tracking updates and COD reconciliation wired straight into your shipment documents.
Explore Warehouse Operations 03Bank statement import, payment gateways and automatic reconciliation — cash application that happens by itself instead of at month-end.
Explore Finance Dashboards 04EDI trading partners and bespoke REST or SOAP interfaces — versioned, documented and built with message replay from day one.
Discuss Your LandscapeEach connector follows the same path. We would rather spend an extra day on contracts and error cases up front than debug a silent data leak in production.
We document both sides: the partner's API or file spec, authentication, rate limits and sandbox access, and the matching iDempiere documents and fields. We agree the external identifier that will serve as the idempotency key, and what a success and a failure each look like.
A field-level mapping specification — order to C_Order, line to order line, partner to Business Partner, item to Product — including code translations and defaults. With volume and latency now understood, we choose REST, file drop, message queue or database view for that interface and write it down.
We develop the OSGi plugin: land payloads in staging tables, dedupe on the external id, promote validated rows into real documents through iDempiere's model layer, and wire up retry, dead-letter and logging. Outbound flows are built the same way in reverse.
Beyond the happy path, we test the awkward ones: duplicate webhooks, out-of-order messages, a malformed file, a portal timeout, a mid-batch failure. We prove that replaying a stored payload is safe and that a poison message dead-letters cleanly without blocking the rest.
We stand up the dashboard and alerts, hand over the error and replay runbook, and watch the first live cycles with you. Once it runs quietly, it moves into Application Management Services under an SLA.
An upgrade-safe OSGi plugin with its source in your Git repository and build scripts, deploying cleanly onto your iDempiere instance.
The field-by-field contract between the external system and iDempiere, including code translations, defaults and the chosen integration pattern.
Live throughput, lag and dead-letter counts with alerts, so a stalled feed is visible immediately rather than discovered at close.
A plain-language guide to what each failure means, what the automatic retries do, and when a human needs to step in.
A safe way to reprocess a single dead-lettered message or a whole day's payloads after a fix, protected by idempotency so nothing double-applies.
A record of endpoints, keys and certificates and where they are stored — held securely, never hard-coded in the plugin or committed to source.
"An interface that fails silently is worse than no interface at all. Ours are idempotent, replayable — and loud when something breaks."
Systems should talk to each other
so your team doesn't re-key a single line — ever.
Orders, stock, invoices, payments and tracking flow both ways automatically, with monitoring that pages us before it bothers you.
Trusted worldwide for end-to-end iDempiere services — the best in the industry at what we do. Tell us the storefront, carrier, bank or partner and we will map the objects, pick the pattern, and show you how we make it idempotent and replayable — before any commitment.
