h1. Maventa Developer guide

<div class="nb">Current production version: BRAVO (released: 12/2009)</div>

The Maventa API is a set of interfaces for accessing your Maventa account data using HTTP and XML. The API makes it easy to create web and desktop applications that integrate with your account.

Some potential application ideas:

* Integrating your financial package (<em>SAP</em>, <em>MS Dynamics / Axapta</em>, <em>QuickBooks</em>, <em>Peachtree</em>) to the Maventa Service  
* Custom import tools (SalesForce, QuickBooks, CSV, etc.)
* Automatic time-based invoice creation
* Accounting, Revenue analysis, Budgeting, Factoring and Claiming Services
* External integration with online payment gateways

*Read these before beginning:*

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* [[Overview]]
* [[Encoding]]
* [[Authentication]]
* [[Dates|Date formats]]
* "Terms of Agreement":https://secure.maventa.com/companies/customer_agreement/2/

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* [[About API keys]]
* [[Request formats]]

* [[API Endpoints]]

* [[Bravo_API|API Callable Methods (BRAVO)]]
* [[NetMethods|API Callable Methods (ALPHA)]]

* [[NetReturn|Return values (ALPHA, applies partially to BRAVO)]]

* [[HowTos|HowTos (ALPHA, applies partially to BRAVO)]]
* [[Finvoice parsing]]