API Best Practices - Introduction

This article series will guide you through building your API connection to Twinfield. The purpose of this article series is to share best practices.

This article series is an addition to our official API documentation that can be found here: https://accounting.twinfield.com/webservices/documentation/#/

Things to know before you start

• What does the certification process for Twinfield's API look like?
• Why is the office code an important identifier?
• How does matching work in Twinfield?
• How to determine the period table?

Setting up a connection to Twinfield

• Setting up a connection using OAuth2
• Retrieving a list of offices that you can access

Common API connections

• API Best Practices - POS (Point of Sale) system
• Webshop
• Medical professionals

 
Importing data into Twinfield

• Importing sales transactions including customers
• Importing purchase transactions including suppliers
• Importing cash transactions
• Importing journal transactions

API Limits

• API limits effective per December 1st 2024
• How to adjust my Twinfield API connection to match the API limit on number of transaction lines?
• How to adjust my API connection to fit Twinfield API limits?

Retrieving data from Twinfield

• Keeping a shadow database with customers/suppliers
• Keeping a shadow database with transactions from Twinfield
• Downloading open invoices from Twinfield

Do you need more specific help?
Please go to: How do I create an API-related case?