Service area
System Integration
Your stack should feel like one system, not a collection of tools you have to babysit. We design reliable sync, webhooks and middleware that stay up — with logging clear enough to debug at 9am on a Monday.
Indicative engagements from £5,000 — quoted after a technical discovery session.
Discuss your integrationWhen you need integration work
The signal is usually the same: your team runs manual exports, pastes data between tabs, or reconciles two systems every Monday morning. Integration replaces that ritual with automated, auditable data flow — and removes the human error that comes with it.
Common triggers we see:
- Orders arriving in Shopify need to appear in accounting software without manual re-entry.
- A new CRM needs to stay in sync with a legacy database that cannot be replaced yet.
- Finance want live cost data from an operational system without waiting for end-of-week extracts.
- A mobile app needs to write to the same source of truth as the desktop platform.
- A partner or customer needs a controlled API to query your data without direct database access.
Integration patterns we implement
Scheduled sync jobs
Reliable polling at defined intervals — products, contacts, invoices or orders. Runs on your infrastructure or cloud scheduler; retries automatically on failure.
Webhook event streams
Real-time push from source to destination. Ideal when seconds matter — payment confirmations, order status changes, stock breaches.
Middleware / iPaaS layers
A dedicated service that translates, validates and routes messages between systems — decouples vendor lock-in and provides a single observability point.
API design & publication
REST or GraphQL APIs with authentication, rate limiting and versioning — for partners, customers or internal teams who need structured access to your data.
Data mapping layers
When field names, formats and currencies never match between vendors, we write validated transformations that produce clean records at the destination.
Monitoring & alerting
Dashboards and email or Slack alerts when a sync fails — before your team notices a discrepancy the hard way. Retry logic with dead-letter queues for safety.
Platforms we connect regularly
We have integration experience with the following — this is not an exhaustive list. If your platform has a documented API, we can work with it.
Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage 50 / Business Cloud, FreeAgent
HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM
Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento
Stripe, GoCardless, PayPal, Worldpay
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Notion
Royal Mail Click & Drop, Shipstation, Linnworks, Unleashed
We also integrate with bespoke in-house databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite) and legacy systems where a documented connection point exists.
Indicative pricing
Integration complexity varies enormously. These are starting-point ranges.
| Scope | Outline | Guide range |
|---|---|---|
| Single connector | One source, one destination, scheduled or webhook | £5,000 – £12,000 |
| Multi-system hub | 3–5 platforms, mapping layer, monitoring dashboard | £12,000 – £30,000 |
| API platform | Published REST/GraphQL API with auth, rate limits, docs | £15,000 – £40,000 |
| Ongoing sync retainer | Monitoring, alerts, updates as vendor APIs change | from £300/month |
What good integration looks like
- Idempotent jobs — safe to retry without creating duplicate invoices or orders.
- Full audit log — every record sync is timestamped and stored; you can trace what moved, when, and why.
- Graceful failure — individual record errors do not abort the entire batch; failed items are quarantined and reported.
- Vendor change resilience — we version API calls and build alerting when an upstream vendor changes their schema.
- Documentation — every integration is documented: data flow diagram, field mapping table, runbook for common errors.
Ready to stop the manual exports?
Tell us which systems you need to connect and what data needs to flow between them.
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