# REST & SOAP API + Fishbowl Integration — Israel Lopez Consulting

> Connect Fishbowl to almost any system that exposes a REST or SOAP API, with the mapping, authentication, and error handling built to hold up in production.

Most of the systems you run expose an API, even when there is no off-the-shelf connector for Fishbowl. That is the gap we fill. We build the integration directly against a REST or SOAP API, so Fishbowl can talk to your CRM, TMS, payment processor, marketplace, or in-house application without anyone copying data by hand.

We handle the parts that make an API integration hold up: authentication and token refresh, field mapping in both directions, rate limits, pagination, retries, and what should happen when the other system returns an error or goes down for a while. The goal is a connection that runs quietly and tells you when something actually needs attention.

This is also how we connect the systems no one else supports. If you can point us at the API documentation, we can usually map a clean path into and out of Fishbowl.

Working with a formal EDI network or a packaged platform instead? Browse the [full list of integrations](/integrations) or tell us your stack and we'll map it.

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*From Israel Lopez Consulting (ILC). Custom Fishbowl Inventory integrations and software, and Fishbowl experts since 2015. Written by Israel Lopez. Questions about this topic, or want to reach the people who wrote it? Visit https://israellopezconsulting.com/contact*