Webhooks to streamline your business processes!

Webhooks are (usually) easy to integrate and a great way to make your business apps 'talk' to each other. If you have seen a webhook mentioned at some of your stock management systems, CRM, or accounting software- do consider using them to make your business processes run a bit more smoothly.

Webhooks are one way that apps can send automated messages or information to other apps. It's how Stripe tells your accounting app when your clients pay you, how 3CX routes phone calls to your number, and how your web store can notify you about new orders in Slack.

They're a simple way your online apps can "speak" to each other and get notified automatically when something new happens. In many cases, you'll need to know how to use webhooks if you want to automatically push data from one app to another.

Webhooks for RFQ at Automa.Net

We have recently launched webhooks at Automa.Net to make it easier to save incoming requests for quotations directly in your CRM, ERP or quotation system. Instead of manually saving data in your CRM about RFQ’s or other data, you can use Automa.Net webhooks to get information about new RFQs directly to your system.

What is a webhook?

Webhooks (also called a?web callback?or?HTTP push API) are user-defined HTTP callbacks typically triggered by an event. Webhooks are a more efficient way instead of calling frequently to API to get new data because data is provided in real-time.

When to use webhooks?

Use webhooks to integrate your application with portal.automa.net, for instance,?save all received RFQ in your CRM instead of manually copying data from emails.

Events and objects:

At this point we provide the following objects and actions:

ObjectActionDescriptionrfqcreatedThe webhook triggered just after when somebody sends RFQ to you for your part

How to use webhooks for RFQ’s?

To get started, please send mail [email protected]?with the following information:

Company’s Name:?The company name for what you want to enable webhook.

Callback URL:?The URL which will be triggered by automa.net when an event occurs. (e.g. https://YourCompany.comt/webhooks/rfq)

Use Case Description:?Give us information about how you want to use this feature. (e.g. To save information in our CRM)

Example request:

Automa.Net will send an HTTP?POST?request(s) to the callback URL(s) specified, every time that event occurs.

When an event occurs, the webhook specified will attempt 5 times, to stop calling a request needs a response with the status “200-204”.?

We are waiting for your response for 3 seconds, so make sure that your callback will be able to respond at this time.

Headers:

• Content-Type: application/json
• User-Agent: automa.net/1.0
• HTTP_AUTOMA_NET_SIGNATURE: xxxxxxx – A signature will be provided in the reply email, it is important to check this header correctness when request doing to make sure that request has been sent by our service.

Body:

{
   "meta":{
      "webhook_id":3,
      "timestamp":1629825338,
      "event":{
         "object":"rfq",
         "action":"created"
      }
   },
   "current":{
      "requester":{
         "user":{
            "first_name":"xxx",
            "last_name":"xxx",
            "email":"[email protected]",
            "phone":"+48123123123"
         },
         "company":{
            "name":"xxx",
            "phone":"+48123123123",
            "email":"[email protected]",
            "address":{
               "line_1":"xxx",
               "line_2":"xxx",
               "city":"xxx",
               "post_code":"xxx",
               "country_name":"xxx"
            },
            "website_url":"https://www.domain.com",
            "webshop_url":"https://www.domain.com",
            "eu_vat_id":{
               "code":"PL",
               "number":"123123123"
            },
            "company_number":"123123123"
         }
      },
      "items":[
         {
            "part_number":"6GK5005-0BA00-1AB2",
            "brand":"Siemens",
            "product_condition":"New",
            "quantity":4
         }
      ],
      "delivery_time":"xxx",
      "note":"xxx",
      "created_at":1629825338
   }
}        

Any questions? Please [email protected]