Portal & API
SAP PunchOut, the customer portal and the REST API that Gimel offers around it.
SAP PunchOut.
If purchasing runs through SAP, the shop can act as a PunchOut catalogue over OCI.
The buyer goes from SAP into a shop session, puts the basket together and sends it back to SAP with the OCI fields filled in. There is no checkout in the shop: the order is raised in SAP, as your purchasing process expects. PunchOut is a switch in the storefront settings, and the connection is agreed with you before the first order.
Customer portal.
Alef Portal is the customer portal on Gimel.
Customers configure a part, order, pay and follow progress. The portal hands a paid order to Gimel through a dedicated endpoint that only the portal server may call, with a shared secret.
- A paid order is never lost: the hand-over is retried, and “paid but not taken over” is visible on both sides
- A retry costs nothing: each hand-over has a unique key, so an order is taken over once
- Assortment, rates, notices and the PunchOut switch come from one place, the storefront settings; the shop falls back to built-in values if the backend is not there
API.
Gimel serves its functions over a REST API under /api.
- /api/ai
- /api/rates
- /api/integration
- /api/invoicing
- /api/shipping
- /api/punchout
- /api/storefront
- /api/portal
Quotes, AI quote, rates, ERP integration, invoicing, shipping, PunchOut, storefront and portal. Staff endpoints need a signed-in staff account, and the portal hand-over needs its shared secret.