Visma eAccounting is a cloud-based accounting solution popular among small and medium-sized businesses across Europe (particularly in the Netherlands and the Nordics). Known for its user-friendly interface and comprehensive accounting features, Visma eAccounting aims to simplify financial management tasks through efficient accounting and invoicing.
Integrating your software solutions with Visma eAccounting allows you to:
- Offer automated processes to your users such as automated accounting entries
- Pull accounting data into your software to update fields or offer features such as forecasting
- Enhance overall accuracy by reducing the risk of error associated with manual entries
This article will help you navigate the Visma eAccounting API with ease, offering best practices, detailed breakdowns, and use cases.
What is the Visma eAccounting API?
The Visma eAccounting API provides REST-based endpoints to seamlessly interact with critical business data. Through this API, users can create, access, or modify various accounting and financial data points, including:
- Customer details
- Invoices and billing data
- Transaction records
- Analytic information
Through Chift’s Unified Accounting API, software vendors can effortlessly connect to Visma eAccounting and many more accounting software, simplifying their integration strategy.
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Examples of Visma eAccounting API integration use cases
Integrating Visma eAccounting significantly enhances operational efficiency and expands the capabilities of your software solution. Here are common ways software vendors use this integration:
Synchronising customer data with accounting
Keep customer records consistently updated between your CRM and Visma eAccounting, ensuring accuracy and seamless customer relationship management.
Assessing loan eligibility for digital lending platform
Digital lender eligibility algorithms, using financial data pulled from software connected to Chift’s Unified Accounting and Unified Invoicing APIs, are able to generate a loan eligibility statuses in as little as 30 seconds.
Sending pre-accounting data to automate accounting entries
Allow your user to automatically export financial data and create accounting entries in Visma eAccounting (and a multitude of other accounting software), saving hours of tedious manual work.
Providing real time AP/AR data for cashflow forecasting
Cashflow management software like Agicap use Chift’s Unified Accounting API to import their users’ open invoices (supplier and clients) from their accounting software so that Agicap can gain access to future cash operations.
For detailed examples of accounting integrations, head to our Chift case studies page.
Our recommendations for integrating with Visma eAccounting
We recommend batching as many of your requests as possible and avoiding multiple small requests to minimize API calls. This helps you stay within rate limits and improves the overall efficiency and performance of your integration.
Integrate with Visma eAccounting and other popular accounting software through a single Unified Accounting API
Chift’s Unified Accounting API simplifies the integration process by allowing you to connect effortlessly with Visma eAccounting and other prominent European accounting platforms. In addition to Visma eAccounting, you can connect seamlessly with platforms such as Sage Génération Experts, Sage 100, Pennylane, MyUnisoft, and many others.
Leveraging Chift’s unified approach significantly reduces your development and ongoing maintenance overhead, accelerates deployment, and supports rapid scalability. In turn, your devs focus on your core product, while your marketing and sales team can advertise a large integration coverage to your prospects.
Interested in exploring Chift’s powerful integration capabilities? Contact our team today for a personalized demonstration.
Visma eAccounting API integration FAQ
What Visma eAccounting endpoints are accessible?
Integrating with Visma eAccounting gives you access to multiple data models to push or pull information. For example:
- Clients
%%/clients%% - Suppliers
%%/suppliers%% - Invoice attachments
%%/attachments%% - VAT Codes
%%/vat-codes%% - Journal Entries
%%/journal/entries%% - Invoices
%%/invoices%%
Consult our Visma eAccounting documentation for a list of all the available endpoints.
What are Visma eAccounting API rate limits?
The Visma eAccounting API rate limit is 600 requests per minute, recorded per client and per endpoint. Exceeding this limit will result in a specific rate limit response:
HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
{
"ErrorCode": 4010,
"DeveloperErrorMessage": "API calls quota exceeded! maximum admitted 600 per Minute. Try again in 55 seconds.",
"ErrorId": "3fa7da17-eeb2-48f6-997d-0be158f4cba4"
}
