API Design

Size-Tier Scope

This variant scales the operating pattern for organizations under 100 people. Keep the controls lightweight, favor owner-led approvals, and introduce automation only where it removes recurring manual work without adding governance overhead.

Purpose

An ERP API is the programmatic surface area of the entire business. Every integration, every mobile app, every custom report, every automation, and every partner extension interacts with the ERP through its APIs. The quality of the API determines the velocity of every team that builds on the platform.

A well-designed API is intuitive, consistent, well-documented, and hard to misuse. A poorly designed API creates support tickets, integration bugs, security vulnerabilities, and developer frustration that compounds over years.

Builders need this skill when: