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This is the getting to know you phase. 🤝 Generally we’re going to want to ask the following questions to better understand your capabiliitiescapabilities.
General data access:
How do you typically deliver this type of data (Contracts, Customers, Settlements and Balances) outside of your ERP system?
Do you have an API for 3rd party integrations?
Is your API REST based? JSON or XML output format?
Maybe flat files via SFTP?
Do you have documentation available on this API?
Do you have a sandbox/testing environment available for development?
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It’s super easy! All the ERP provider needs to do is to set a header (x-company-context), which allows us to switch on companies inside a provider, while allowing them to keep the same API key. This way, only very small changes on our side are required for onboarding
So how can we work together to add a new elevator? What steps need to be taken?
Glad you asked. Here are the steps
Use the same API key and endpoint that you currently push information to us with
Set
x-customer-contextto the name of the company being onboarded, for example:x-customer-context: stone-grain
x-customer-context: superior-grain-buyers
Send an email to marketplace@barchart.com who will forward to our development team for processing
That’s it! Just watch that beautiful grower data start flowing 👏 👏 👏