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Decoding the Differences between Embedded iPaaS and Unified APIs

Decoding the Differences between Embedded iPaaS and Unified APIs

This blog post delves into the differences between Unified APIs and Embedded iPaaS, exploring their features, and benefits to help you understand which option might best suit your integration needs.

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

7 min read
Announcing our $7.5m Series A

Announcing our $7.5m Series A

Today, we're thrilled to share some exciting news: Apideck has raised $7.5 million in our Series A funding round! This milestone is a significant step forward in our mission to simplify API integratio...

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

2 min read
Xero Integration Made Easy: Authentication and Accounts Receivable Best Practices

Xero Integration Made Easy: Authentication and Accounts Receivable Best Practices

This guide explores the complexities and pitfalls of integration with Xero using the Python SDK and explains how to use some methods to manage accounts receivable.

Joleen Bothma

Joleen Bothma

10 min read
Exploring the Quickbooks Online Accounting API

Exploring the Quickbooks Online Accounting API

In this article, you'll understand how the API works, how you can connect to it, and how you can actually use it to perform various tasks, such as automatically updating accounts, invoices, bills, and...

Naman Bansal

Naman Bansal

32 min read
Paylocity Authentication and Integration Guide

Paylocity Authentication and Integration Guide

In this guide, you'll learn about the Paylocity API—its pitfalls, complexities, and use cases. You'll also learn to integrate it into your workflow to manage your HR tasks.

David Ekete

David Ekete

9 min read
A Tutorial on Setting Up and Using the Workday SOAP API

A Tutorial on Setting Up and Using the Workday SOAP API

The Workday APIs can be used for various tasks, including managing employee data, integrating financial systems, handling recruitment processes, managing time tracking, and facilitating benefits admin...

Vivek Kumar Maskara

Vivek Kumar Maskara

13 min read
The Power of Real-Time Unified APIs

The Power of Real-Time Unified APIs

In this article, you will learn about unified APIs and, most especially, the power of real-time unified APIs and their benefits. You will also learn how real-time unified APIs differ from traditional ...

Daniel Olaogun

Daniel Olaogun

9 min read
API Auth: Authentication Methods and Examples

API Auth: Authentication Methods and Examples

In this guide, we will explore several common API authentication methods, including Basic Auth, API keys, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Integration System User (ISU), Hash-Based Message Authentication...

Kevin Kimani

Kevin Kimani

11 min read
A Guide to Integrating with the NetSuite SOAP API

A Guide to Integrating with the NetSuite SOAP API

In this article, you will learn about the complexities and pitfalls of integrating with the NetSuite API. You will also learn about how authentication works with the NetSuite SOAP API and how the Apid...

Kevin Kimani

Kevin Kimani

9 min read
Extracting Employee Data with the BambooHR API: Practical Examples

Extracting Employee Data with the BambooHR API: Practical Examples

This article explains one possible way of using the BambooHR API to retrieve employee data using Python. Having done that, you'll be able to use your existing knowledge to route the data to a differen...

Jura Gorohovsky

Jura Gorohovsky

14 min read
The Engineer’s Guide to Embedded iPaaS and Unified APIs

The Engineer’s Guide to Embedded iPaaS and Unified APIs

The means to integrate with software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers has become an absolute must in how we build systems today. The vast majority of applications rely on integrations with SaaS APIs to p...

Chris Wood

Chris Wood

6 min read
Monetizing your APIs: Tips for Large Organizations

Monetizing your APIs: Tips for Large Organizations

Monetizing an API in large organizations is like vices amongst teenagers: They talk a lot about a given vice, but very few are actually doing it. Put yourself in any large and well-established organiz...

Chris Wood

Chris Wood

11 min read
Why Portman Helps with API Testing

Why Portman Helps with API Testing

Let's face facts: When you publish APIs, you need to test them - and that means really test them. APIs with zero-or-limited testing are likely to be unreliable, prone to failure, riddled with inaccura...

Chris Wood

Chris Wood

8 min read
Apideck is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant

Apideck is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant

Being a provider of Unified APIs, Apideck processes tons of information on behalf of its customers, wether that’s customer information passing through our CRM API, employee information through our HRI...

Tom Schouteden

Tom Schouteden

3 min read
The Benefits of API Aggregation

The Benefits of API Aggregation

The technology world has an ongoing love affair with APIs. The continued hubbub - both within industry sectors, as a way of opening the market - and as a means for bringing new products to market show...

Chris Wood

Chris Wood

8 min read
Comparing REST vs. GraphQL

Comparing REST vs. GraphQL

In our API-heavy, data-driven world, applications are front and center when it comes to delivering exceptional user experiences. How services communicate fundamentally impacts how users request inform...

Tyler Charboneau

Tyler Charboneau

9 min read
Reva: Validate requests with OpenAPI in Node.js

Reva: Validate requests with OpenAPI in Node.js

Validating API requests shouldn't be a hassle. Why write validation code by hand when we have OpenAPI documents that describe every endpoint? To address this problem we built Reva, a simple Node.js re...

Elias Meire

Elias Meire

2 min read
Build better SaaS onboarding through automated data imports

Build better SaaS onboarding through automated data imports

Building a SaaS product with great onboarding can be hard. Even though onboarding is a key component in sucessfully converting new customers. Find out how automated data importing can help improve you...

Tom Schouteden

Tom Schouteden

5 min read
Top 5 file storage APIs to integrate with

Top 5 file storage APIs to integrate with

Need to connect cloud storage providers to your application? Here are the Top 5 players you can't ignore. Connect to them individually, or use our Unified File Storage API to get to market faster.

Tom Schouteden

Tom Schouteden

7 min read
Announcing the Unified File Storage API and File Picker UI

Announcing the Unified File Storage API and File Picker UI

We’re very proud to add another software category to our growing portfolio of unified APIs: the Unified File Storage API. This Unified API makes it possible for software developers to integrate with...

Tom Schouteden

Tom Schouteden

3 min read
Why Apideck is a great alternative for Kloudless customers

Why Apideck is a great alternative for Kloudless customers

Due to Kloudless' recent acquisition by Netskope, its existing Unified API product line will be sunset and customers will be forced to look for an alternative. Find out why Apideck Unify is a great al...

Tom Schouteden

Tom Schouteden

2 min read
Apideck Welcomes Tom Schouteden as COO

Apideck Welcomes Tom Schouteden as COO

Apideck, a Belgium-based SaaS company that provides developer solutions focused on integrating, monitoring, and showcasing API integrations, today announced the appointment of Tom Schouteden as Chief ...

Apideck

Apideck

2 min read
An introduction to spec-driven API development

An introduction to spec-driven API development

Historically, API design has been mainly implementation-driven. Nothing faster than quickly prototyping a few endpoints together before even thinking about putting together an API specification. Mo sp...

Tim Haselaars, PM @ Selligent

Tim Haselaars, PM @ Selligent

7 min read
Portman CLI 1.0 - Better API testing

Portman CLI 1.0 - Better API testing

Portman leverages the full power of OpenAPI specs and Postman Collections for API testing. Covering use cases from integrating API testing into your CI/CD pipeline to uploading Postman Collections.

Tim Haselaars, PM @ Selligent

Tim Haselaars, PM @ Selligent

7 min read
Abstracting API pagination across third-party APIs

Abstracting API pagination across third-party APIs

Struggling with inconsistent pagination across APIs? Discover how we unified various pagination strategies into a single, developer-friendly API, simplifying integrations. Learn how we tackled the com...

Elias Meire

Elias Meire

8 min read
10 ways to build a developer community

10 ways to build a developer community

Strong developer communities are fundamental to a thriving software ecosystem. By uniting programmers around a common subject, communities enable users to share ideas, progress software projects, supp...

Jake Prins

Jake Prins

9 min read
How to build a great developer experience

How to build a great developer experience

Nowadays, Developer Experience (DX) is essential for software products. Akin to User Experience (UX), DX instead focuses on improving the developer's journey, reducing hang-ups, and encouraging succes...

Nick Lloyd

Nick Lloyd

9 min read
What is an SDK?

What is an SDK?

Software Development Kits (SDKs) are very common throughout the development landscape. Most API providers offer SDKs to help support specific programming languages and app development paradigms, makin...

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

8 min read
What is OpenAPI? Introduction to OpenAPI Specification (OAS)

What is OpenAPI? Introduction to OpenAPI Specification (OAS)

OpenAPI continues to evolve and sustain a vibrant, interconnected API economy. Here, we define what exactly OpenAPI is, how OpenAPI definitions are structured, and peek into some production implementa...

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

12 min read
What is a webhook?

What is a webhook?

Since webhooks are quite ubiquitous in today's real-time software architectures, it's crucial to understand how they work. Below, we'll explore webhooks, find out how to test them, and showcase real-l...

Elias Meire

Elias Meire

9 min read
My first month as a frontend engineer at Apideck

My first month as a frontend engineer at Apideck

On the first of February 2021, I started as a Frontend Engineer at Apideck, a remote role at a fast-growing startup that helps SaaS companies build & scale API-driven platforms. In this post, I’m goin...

Jake Prins

Jake Prins

4 min read
How to promote your API?

How to promote your API?

APIs, like other products, need product marketing forethought. In this post, we'll uncover the hottest tips to get your API out in the wild. Thankfully, there are some pretty simple, tried-and-true st...

Apideck

Apideck

10 min read
25+ CRM APIs to integrate with

25+ CRM APIs to integrate with

CRMs connect with various moving components, and integration is the name of the game. Therefore, CRMs typically open up with a RESTful API to integrate with partners. If you're in the market for CRM i...

Nick Lloyd

Nick Lloyd

20 min read
What is a Unified API?

What is a Unified API?

A Unified API aggregates many APIs in the same software category, making integration easier with a standard endpoint, authentication, and normalized data. This results in a consistent developer experi...

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

8 min read
Apideck Product Update 🚀 August 2020

Apideck Product Update 🚀 August 2020

New in Apideck this month: track all your integration requests in one place; build native integrations at scale with Apideck Unify; launching Channelstack.co.

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

2 min read
Apideck acknowledged in the Forrester’s 2020 Channel Tech Stack

Apideck acknowledged in the Forrester’s 2020 Channel Tech Stack

Apideck acknowledged in the Forrester’s 2020 Channel Tech Stack, launching channelstack.co, a Channel Tech Directory for all channel professionals to celebrate the growth of the ecosystem 🚀

Johan de Keulenaer

Johan de Keulenaer

2 min read
Apideck Product Update, November 2019

Apideck Product Update, November 2019

This blog post is the November edition of our monthly update with the latest updates on the Apideck platform. New features; redesigned landing pages, improved search, developer badges, HubSpot trackin...

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

2 min read
Building a SaaS application in 2019 - SaaS Blocks 🧱

Building a SaaS application in 2019 - SaaS Blocks 🧱

Hit the ground running when building a SaaS application. Buy-vs-build is a daily dilemma for product makers. SaaS Blocks helps you discover and select new vendors to add features to your SaaS product.

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

3 min read
Platform Heroes - Teamleader Marketplace, Niels Vanden Buverie

Platform Heroes - Teamleader Marketplace, Niels Vanden Buverie

This interview with Niels from Teamleader highlights the importance of integration partners and community building to drive partnership success.

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

6 min read
Apideck Updates and SaaS Ecosystem News, February 2019 🚀

Apideck Updates and SaaS Ecosystem News, February 2019 🚀

Upcoming Product Hunt launch. New features; Shadow listings, Catalog, Zaps page, Drift and Intercom support. SaaS News: Google Docs API, Slack Block Kit.

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

4 min read
Platform Heroes - Jake Wallace, AWeber

Platform Heroes - Jake Wallace, AWeber

This interview with Jake from AWeber highlights the importance of customer alignment when building integrations and forging new partnerships.

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

5 min read
Platform Heroes - Jean-Pierre Pequito, Intercom App Store

Platform Heroes - Jean-Pierre Pequito, Intercom App Store

Intercom has one of the most active developer ecosystems in the market. In this interview, we cover the Intercom App Store and what they have in store for the future!

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

7 min read
Platform Heroes - Corey Hobbs, GitHub Marketplace

Platform Heroes - Corey Hobbs, GitHub Marketplace

The Gitub Marketplace is one of the most impressive B2D platform plays. Corey Hobbs shares his insights into their way of work and metrics.

Gertjan De Wilde

Gertjan De Wilde

6 min read
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