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AvidXchange Integration Guide
Connect AvidXchange accounts-payable, invoice, vendor, purchase-order, and payment workflows with enterprise systems through REST APIs, selected event notifications, and OAuth-based authorization.
AvidXchange integration options at a glance
AvidXchange’s primary integration mechanism is its REST API, which can expose invoices, vendors, purchase orders, payments, organizations, and related accounts-payable data depending on the enabled product and customer agreement. Selected integration scenarios also support webhook-style or event notifications, although coverage should be confirmed for each object and lifecycle event. OAuth-based authorization protects API access, with tenant permissions, scopes, and environments confirmed during onboarding. Martini can consume AvidXchange REST endpoints, receive supported notifications through an inbound API, schedule incremental synchronization, map JSON payloads, apply business rules, and handle pagination, retries, duplicate detection, and reconciliation.
Common AvidXchange integration patterns
Common AvidXchange data objects used in integrations
Authentication and security considerations
OAuth-based API authorization
AvidXchange API access uses OAuth-based authorization. The precise grant, token URL, scopes, and tenant permissions depend on the selected API product and customer configuration.
Credential protection
- Store client IDs, client secrets, tokens, and environment-specific endpoints in protected Martini configuration or secrets management.
- Do not place credentials in workflow payloads, mappings, or operational logs.
- Separate sandbox and production credentials and restrict access to the required AvidXchange resources.
Tenant and resource permissions
Confirm customer, account, organization, and tenant permissions before implementing invoice, vendor, payment, or approval workflows. Validate authorization behavior in a non-production environment before deployment.
Operational considerations for AvidXchange integrations
Pagination and incremental retrieval
Use AvidXchange’s documented pagination and server-side filters where available. Store a last-successful timestamp or cursor, allow for clock skew and late-arriving updates, and reconcile using AvidXchange identifiers rather than invoice numbers alone.
Rate limits and retries
Confirm customer-specific quotas with AvidXchange. Apply exponential backoff to transient failures, timeouts, and throttling responses, and do not retry non-recoverable validation errors.
Idempotency and status handling
Persist source IDs, AvidXchange IDs, correlation IDs, and processing state. Treat invoice and payment statuses as a lifecycle rather than assuming every non-success response is terminal. Use idempotency or external-reference fields where the relevant operation supports them.
Documents and schema changes
Do not assume invoice metadata and binary documents use the same API. Confirm attachment behavior, URLs, MIME types, and file limits. Protect mappings against optional fields, new enum values, API version changes, and date, currency, and timezone differences.
Testing and observability
Use representative invoice, vendor, purchase-order, and payment payloads for contract testing. Record request identifiers, response status codes, resource IDs, timestamps, and workflow outcomes so failed submissions and reconciliation gaps can be investigated.
Why use Martini instead of scripts or point-to-point integrations?
Orchestration beyond a single API call
Martini coordinates authentication, lookups, validation, transformation, business rules, target writes, and reconciliation in workflows rather than embedding these concerns in isolated scripts.
Reusable and maintainable integration assets
Teams can expose normalized APIs, reuse workflow logic, centralize mappings, and support both event-driven processing and scheduled polling when AvidXchange notification coverage is partial.
Operational control
Martini provides structured error handling, retry paths, checkpointing, logging, and environment-specific configuration so invoice and payment integrations can be operated and evolved without creating a separate point-to-point implementation for every target.