Prophet 21 Application
Programming Interface
Connecting Your Business to the World
Today’s fast-moving business environment requires tighter integration between you, your
partners, and your customers than ever before. This need is especially critical for your
business systems. To provide the responsiveness you need, your business systems must
simultaneously talk to other applications, websites, and content on the Internet.
The Prophet 21 Application Programming Interface (API) provides a full .NET stack that
supports SOAP and REST for Internet connectivity for more than 300 services. The Prophet
21 API is already a proven platform that is used to connect Prophet 21 to other Epicor
companion applications like Epicor Proof of Delivery. Now, you can connect your business to
the rest of the world with this powerful web-services tool.
API Services
The Prophet 21 API gives you tools to easily integrate outside applications with your Prophet
21 system. The extensive APIs toolset includes:
X v2 P21 API—a stateless REST API that works with most of our systems using a
metadata model
X Entity API—a very specific set of stateless, fit-for-purpose REST endpoints using strongly typed
business object models
X Interactive API—a revolutionary technology allowing developers to interact with a stateful
Prophet 21 session
X Data Services API—allows secure reads from your Prophet 21 database using OData protocol
The Prophet 21 API supports get, insert, and update activities for selected components of
the Prophet 21 business logic, including:
X eCommerce services—specifically to integrate Prophet 21 to an external ecommerce website
X Consignment usage orders
X Contacts
X Customer/Ship To/Address
X Exchange rates
X External inventory count (consignment)
X Items
X Opportunities
X Purchase orders
X Sales orders
X Service orders—including updates to comments, labor hours, and parts
X Tasks
X Vendor/supplier
Product
X Epicor® Prophet 21®
Benefits
X Support integration to
external vendor, customer, and
partner application
X Integrate to/from outside
applications while applying
Prophet 21 business logic
X Full .NET stack supports SOAP and
REST architecture
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Prophet 21 Application Programming Interface
The Prophet 21 API is a gateway that
combines API and web services on the
same middleware platform that hosts
the business logic. The API determines
which protocols the various applications use
to communicate and enforces Prophet 21
business rules. These API tools allow you to
leverage all of the industry-leading Prophet
21 functionality—including customizations
and extensibility mods—without being tied
to the Prophet 21 application.
Prophet 21 API
Personalization
DynaChange
Rules
User Interface
End User Personalization
Form & Report Designer
Screen, Tab & Menu Designer
Prophet 21
Business Logic Prophet 21 API
.NET (C#) Web Services
SOAP/REST
SQL
Database
External
External eCommerce Sites
Supplier Partner Sites
External Applications Epicor
Prophet 21 Mobile Sales
DynaChangeâ„¢ Mobile Portals
Mobile Proof of Delivery
Service Dispatch
Epicor Commerce Connect
Prophet 21
