API integrations
API integration development for Laravel applications.
Most businesses run on five or six tools that do not talk to each other, with people filling the gaps by hand. We build the connections between them: Stripe, QuickBooks, HubSpot, CRMs, shipping providers, and internal systems, wired into your Laravel application so the data moves on its own and keeps agreeing over time.
Who this is for
When people are the integration between two systems.
Manual data entry between tools is easy to overlook because it works. It just costs a few hours a week, introduces mistakes nobody catches immediately, and gets more expensive as the business grows.
- The same information is typed into two or three systems by hand.
- Your team exports a CSV from one tool to import it into another.
- Orders, invoices, or customer records have to be reconciled manually.
- An integration someone built previously has quietly stopped working.
- A vendor gave you API credentials and nobody has time to build against them.
- You need your application to talk to a system that has no off-the-shelf connector.
What we connect
Platforms we integrate with.
These come up most often, but the approach is the same for any documented API, and for plenty of systems that are not documented at all.
- Stripe
- QuickBooks
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Shipping & carrier APIs
- Email & marketing platforms
- Accounting systems
- CRMs & sales tools
- Payment processors
- ERP & inventory systems
- Internal & legacy systems
- Custom partner APIs
Common problems
How integrations fail quietly.
An integration that works on the happy path is straightforward. Most of the real work is in what happens when the other system is slow, down, rate limiting you, or sending the same event twice.
- Data drifts apart because two systems each think they are the source of truth.
- A failed sync goes unnoticed until someone spots the wrong number in a report.
- Retries create duplicate records instead of correcting the original one.
- Rate limits are hit during busy periods and requests are silently dropped.
- Expired credentials break the connection and nothing raises an alarm.
- Nobody can answer which records failed to sync, or when.
How we build them
What separates an integration that lasts.
The difference between an integration that runs for years and one that needs babysitting is mostly in the parts you never see when it is working.
Idempotency
Retrying a request should never create a second charge, order, or contact. Operations are keyed so repeats are safe.
Retries & backoff
Third-party APIs fail intermittently. Failed calls are queued and retried with backoff rather than lost.
Rate limits
Requests are throttled to stay inside each provider’s limits, so busy periods do not drop work on the floor.
Webhook verification
Incoming webhooks are signature-verified and recorded before they are processed, so nothing is trusted blindly or handled twice.
Reconciliation
A scheduled check compares both systems and surfaces records that disagree, instead of assuming the sync worked.
Visibility
Failures are logged and alerted on, so a broken integration is noticed by you and not by your customer.
How we work
From manual process to automated sync.
Map the systems
Establish which system owns each piece of data, and what should happen when they disagree.
Review the APIs
Read the actual provider documentation and limits before committing to an approach. Not every API supports what the plan assumes.
Design the sync
Decide direction, triggers, and timing: real-time webhooks, scheduled batches, or a combination.
Build & instrument
Implement against Laravel queues with logging, retries, and failure handling built in from the start.
Test the failure paths
Exercise the cases that matter: timeouts, duplicate deliveries, malformed payloads, and expired credentials.
Backfill & cut over
Migrate existing records, verify both systems agree, and move the manual process off your team.
Monitor & maintain
Watch it in production. Providers change their APIs, deprecate versions, and rotate credentials.
Technology
Queues, webhooks, and a paper trail.
Integration work leans on the parts of Laravel built for exactly this: queued jobs, scheduled tasks, retries, and a record of what happened.
- Laravel
- PHP
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
- Laravel queues
- Redis
- Scheduled jobs
- OAuth 2.0
- Stripe
- MySQL / MariaDB
- Monitoring & alerting
- GitHub / GitLab
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Common questions
Questions about API integrations.
Can you integrate with a system that has no public API?
Sometimes. Older and internal systems often expose a database, a file drop, a scheduled export, or an undocumented endpoint that can be worked with. Where nothing usable exists, we will tell you that directly rather than building something fragile on top of screen scraping.
What happens when a third-party API is down or changes without warning?
Work is queued and retried with backoff rather than lost, failures are logged and alerted on, and reconciliation checks surface records that did not sync. When a provider deprecates an API version, that is handled as part of ongoing maintenance.
Do you build one-off integrations or ongoing sync?
Both. Some projects are a single migration or backfill. Most are continuous: a real-time webhook flow, a scheduled batch sync, or a combination. Which one is right depends on how quickly the data needs to agree and what each provider supports.
Can you fix an integration that someone else built?
Yes. Taking over an existing integration usually starts with establishing what it currently does, where it fails, and whether the underlying approach is sound. Sometimes the fix is small; sometimes the honest answer is that it needs rebuilding.
How do you handle credentials and sensitive data?
Credentials are kept in environment configuration rather than in the codebase, access is scoped to what the integration actually needs, and payloads containing personal or payment data are handled and logged with that in mind.
Tired of moving data by hand?
Tell us which systems need to talk to each other and what your team is doing manually today. We will tell you what is realistic to connect, what it takes, and where the complexity actually sits.