Visma Severa's API is a webservice API. This means that the API is available in the internet, visible for anyone who wants to view it. The API is used by coding a software which connects to it and interacts with the API. To integrate to Visma Severa, an API key is required. Without it, it is not possible to use the API. So even the API itself is public, the use of it is limited for the organizations which have Visma Severa's API addon active, and that have generated an API key and taken it to use in an integration software.

Shortly the steps to integrate are:

Define needs for integration. Is it needed for example to insert work hours or transfer invoices?
See if Visma Severa's API has the needed interfaces and options for the integration. Use API documentation together with Visma Severa environment to gain this knowledge.
If you are integrating with another software, check also that other end has a API or some other way for wanted interaction.
If everything seems good, build a software that connects to API and performs the integration. Often there is a need to have a server where the integration is running. It is also recommended to monitor and log possible integration errors.
Visma Severa's API is passive, which means that the integration software needs to call API to perform an action, and wait for the response from API to see if it was successful.

What others have done with API

Anonymous list of different types of integrations, with basic description of the integration, can be found here.

For your developers

At the moment Visma Severa has a webservice API. For example REST API is not available.

API documentation

See API documentation article: https://support.severa.com/fi/support/solutions/articles/77000465123

Code examples

See API examples article: h https://support.severa.com/fi/support/solutions/folders/77000302653

Setting up API to your organization

To be able to integrate to Visma Severa, it is needed to set up API in your Visma Severa organization. See support article for Visma Severa API.

It is recommended to create one API user to Visma Severa, which isn't any employee of the organization in question. This is because of two reasons:
- It is needed to give API key to an user who has wide access rights to Visma Severa, because it is important to get correct data out to your software. All data that is gotten from API is limited by the access rights of the user whose API key is in use.
- When API user is none of the organization's employees, there is less need to keep track of which user's API key is in use, and what are the access rights of that user, or is that user still working for the company. For integrations to work, API user needs to be active all the time, so if API key is generated to some employee, integration won't work when user is inactivated.
When API user has been created and API activated, API key is generated for the user. This API key is used in the integration software, and it identifies the user who is making the API call, as well as the user's organization, ensuring that data is returned correctly.
If API key is regenerated for the user in question, API key needs to be updated in the software which is integrating to Visma Severa.

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