Building Custom Integrations — Proposed Guide

Building Custom Integrations: Start a custom integration proposal by documenting record ownership, identifiers and business boundaries. A future connector…

Overview

Start a custom integration proposal by documenting record ownership, identifiers and business boundaries. A future connector should have a narrow purpose and an explicit reconciliation process.

Key concepts

Build local mapping fixtures, then review direction, conflicts and failure cases. Keep organization context in every mapped record.

Implementation considerations

No connector is implemented here. Approve provider access and financial authority separately before considering production transport.

Illustrative data model

This local fixture shows a possible representation for the concepts above. It is not an endpoint response, production configuration or a claim that the described capability is implemented.

{
  "reference_only": true,
  "topic": "Building Custom Integrations",
  "integration_id": "integration_example_123",
  "external_id": "external_example_123",
  "mapping_version": 1,
  "organization_id": "org_example_123"
}

Design review checklist

• Document which organization owns the building custom integrations representation and which actor may view or change it.
• Test the boundaries of integration id, external id, mapping version, organization id using synthetic values, including missing or inconsistent references.
• Before future implementation, obtain an approved contract and review failure behavior. This documentation does not authorize production activation.

Proposed data types

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