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System Integrations & Consulting

Professional consulting and implementation for third-party integrations in Kenya. Connect custom APIs, ERPs (SAP, Odoo), CRMs, and payment gateways.

Business systems rarely use the same data format or workflow. When they are not connected properly, teams end up copying records between platforms and reconciling changes by hand.

Statum helps connect custom applications to third-party APIs, legacy databases, ERP systems, CRMs, and service providers. The work may involve architecture, implementation, data mapping, or support for an existing integration.

Our Integration Capabilities

Typical integration work includes:

  • ERP & Accounting Integrations: Connect your customer-facing platforms or mobile apps with enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Sage, and Zoho Books. We automate invoicing, sales matching, and stock management.
  • CRM & Lead Systems: Keep client details synchronized by linking your systems to Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, or custom lead pipelines.
  • E-Commerce & Checkout Engines: Connect your systems to storefronts such as WooCommerce, Shopify, and Magento through a plugin or the provider's API.
  • Messaging & Telecommunication: Integrate SMS Gateways, interactive USSD menus, and automated WhatsApp Business endpoints to communicate with customers programmatically.

Architecture and design

An integration should make data ownership, failure handling, and request tracing clear. The design needs attention in three areas:

1. Asynchronous Event-Driven Messaging

Queues such as RabbitMQ, Redis, or Amazon SQS can separate your application from a slower third-party service. This lets you acknowledge work, retry transient failures in a controlled way, and avoid blocking the main request.

2. Data Translation & Schema Mapping

Middleware can translate between systems with different schemas, such as a legacy SOAP/XML service and a REST/JSON application. The mapping should be explicit so missing or changed fields are visible.

3. Strict Security & Token Management

Credentials belong in protected server-side configuration or a key vault. Depending on the provider, the integration may also require HMAC verification, OAuth 2.0 token refresh, or signed webhook validation.

Our Integration Process

Most projects move through the following stages:

Phase 1

Audit & Roadmap

We review the existing application, the target provider, the data that must move between them, and the failure cases that matter to the business.

Phase 2

Architecture Design

We document the data mappings, callback payloads, queues, ownership boundaries, and fallback choices before implementation begins.

Phase 3

Implementation

Implementation covers the connection layer, webhook handlers, transformations, and the logging needed to trace requests and failures.

Phase 4

Testing & Go-Live

We test successful and failed requests, verify retries and callbacks, check the important latency paths, and review the logs before go-live.

Example Use Cases

  • Automated invoicing: Send checkout results from M-Pesa or card payments to an ERP such as Odoo so paid invoices and stock records can be updated.
  • Lead routing: Send enquiries from a mobile application to a Zoho or Salesforce pipeline for follow-up.
  • Batch reconciliation: Collect reports from several providers, map the records to an agreed format, and update the internal ledger.

Consult with an Integration Specialist

If you are planning an integration, moving data between systems, or taking over an unreliable connection, get in touch with Statum to discuss the architecture and scope.