What is iVend Extensibility

Ability of a software system to allow and accept significant extension of its capabilities, without major rewriting of code or changes in its basic architecture.

iVend Extensibility provides an Add-on framework which facilitates the programmers to enhance and extend the business logic of the application as per new business requirements due to growing business needs and advancements.

• Facilitates to extend UI (User Interface) Layer

• Creation of User Defined Field (UDF) and User Defined Table (UDT)

• Includes facilities to extend Business Logic as well as new Business Rules.

• Allows the events to be overridden for most of the activities applications do.

• Publish Add-on per store level and prioritize execution

• iVend DB Context is accessible for SQL Queries execution

• iVend Retail provides a rich bundle of API functions that can be leveraged to integrate with any standard ERP

• Extends the ability to integrate with third party Payment Processors

iVend API

iVend Retail Solution delivers a configurable, flexible, and scalable solution that is easy to set up and implement. iVend provides a rich bundle of APIs that can be leveraged to integrate using a program with any standard ERP of choice. The iVend Web Services API is a collection of WCF Services for updating, retrieving, and manipulating data in the iVend Retail. The iVend APIs are discoverable endpoints that allow third party systems to interact with the underlying components directly.

This topic is spread across the following sections:

• Documents

• Knowledge Articles

• E-Learning Videos

However, in this article we will cover the Knowledge Articles section which includes the following:

• Consuming iVend Retail Web API Using REST Call

• Calling iVend Retail Web API using SoapUI