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Automate payments, accelerate reconciliation, and secure customer data with a powerful, real-time integration.

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The Challenge

The High Cost of Disconnected Payments & ERP Systems

Without a robust integration, managing payments and financial data across AuthorizeNet and SAP leads to operational inefficiencies, compliance risks, and delayed insights. Manual processes drain resources and hinder growth.

  • Manual Payment Posting & Reconciliation: Tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming efforts to manually enter AuthorizeNet transactions into SAP's General Ledger, delaying financial closes.
  • Delayed Order-to-Cash Cycle: Lagging payment confirmations prevent timely order fulfillment in SAP, impacting customer satisfaction and cash flow.
  • PCI DSS Compliance Burden: Storing sensitive card data across multiple systems increases security risks and expands your compliance scope.
  • Inconsistent Customer Data: Discrepancies between AuthorizeNet's Customer Information Manager (CIM) and SAP's Business Partner/Customer records lead to payment failures and poor customer experience.
  • Ineffective Fraud Detection: Limited ability to leverage AuthorizeNet's Advanced Fraud Detection Suite (AFDS) in conjunction with SAP's order data for proactive risk management.
  • Subscription Billing Challenges: Manual tracking of recurring payments and dunning processes results in churn and lost revenue.
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The Solution

Your Unified Payment & ERP Solution: AuthorizeNet + SAP via iPaaS

Our iPaaS-powered integration seamlessly connects AuthorizeNet and SAP, automating your entire payment-to-cash cycle. Experience real-time data synchronization, enhanced security, and streamlined workflows designed for modern enterprises.

  • Real-time Transaction Sync: Instantly post AuthorizeNet payment details to SAP Sales Orders, Invoices, and General Ledger.
  • Automated Financial Reconciliation: Reconcile daily AuthorizeNet settlement batches with SAP FI/CO for accurate reporting.
  • Secure Customer Payment Profiles (CIM): Synchronize customer billing information and tokenized payment methods between CRM, AuthorizeNet CIM, and SAP Business Partner records.
  • Subscription Billing Automation: Leverage AuthorizeNet ARB for recurring payments, with automatic invoice generation and dunning management integrated with SAP.
  • Advanced Fraud Detection: Integrate AuthorizeNet AFDS scores with SAP order data, augmented by AI for intelligent fraud prevention and alert routing.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with AuthorizeNet + SAP in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both AuthorizeNet and SAP, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most AuthorizeNet + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Real-time Transaction Sync: Instantly post AuthorizeNet payment details to SAP Sales Orders, Invoices, and General Ledger.
  • Automated Financial Reconciliation: Reconcile daily AuthorizeNet settlement batches with SAP FI/CO for accurate reporting.
  • Secure Customer Payment Profiles (CIM): Synchronize customer billing information and tokenized payment methods between CRM, AuthorizeNet CIM, and SAP Business Partner records.
  • Subscription Billing Automation: Leverage AuthorizeNet ARB for recurring payments, with automatic invoice generation and dunning management integrated with SAP.
  • Advanced Fraud Detection: Integrate AuthorizeNet AFDS scores with SAP order data, augmented by AI for intelligent fraud prevention and alert routing.
  • Automated Refund & Void Processing: Initiate and track refunds directly from SAP, executed via AuthorizeNet APIs, with financial reversals automatically posted.
  • Bidirectional Master Data Sync: Keep customer and product master data consistent across SAP and payment-related systems.

Technical Integration Overview: AuthorizeNet & SAP

Our iPaaS acts as the central orchestration layer, facilitating secure, efficient, and real-time data exchange between AuthorizeNet and SAP. It leverages modern API-first principles, event-driven architecture, and robust data transformation capabilities.

Data Flow Steps

Connectivity & Authentication: Establish secure connections using AuthorizeNet's API Login ID/Transaction Key and Signature Key for webhooks. For SAP, utilize OAuth 2.0 (S/4HANA Cloud) or SAP Cloud Connector for on-premise BAPIs/RFCs, ensuring secure credential management via iPaaS vault.

Event Triggering: AuthorizeNet webhooks (`net.authorize.payment.authcapture.created`, `net.authorize.payment.refund.created`, `net.authorize.payment.settlement.batchSettled`) serve as real-time triggers. SAP events can be captured via SAP Event Mesh or database change data capture.

Data Ingestion & Extraction: iPaaS connectors pull data from AuthorizeNet APIs (e.g., `createTransaction`, `getTransactionListForBatch`) and push data to SAP APIs (e.g., OData for S/4HANA, BAPIs/RFCs for ECC).

Data Transformation & Harmonization: The iPaaS's visual mapping canvas transforms AuthorizeNet's payment-centric schemas (e.g., `Transaction` status codes, `CustomerProfile` fields) into SAP's complex business object structures (e.g., `SalesOrder` line items, `BusinessPartner` roles, `GLAccount` postings). AI-assisted mapping accelerates this process.

Business Logic & Validation: Implement custom business rules within the iPaaS (e.g., credit limit checks before SAP Sales Order creation, fraud score thresholds from AFDS). Validate data against SAP master data before posting to prevent errors.

Error Handling & Retries: Implement intelligent retry mechanisms with exponential backoff for transient API errors. Non-recoverable errors are logged, alerted, and routed to dead-letter queues for manual review.

Monitoring & Observability: Centralized dashboards provide real-time visibility into integration flow health, transaction volumes, and error rates for both AuthorizeNet and SAP connections.

Data Touchpoints

AuthorizeNet: Transaction, CustomerProfile, PaymentProfile, Subscription, SettlementBatch, FraudEvent, Order, Invoice, CustomerAddress.
SAP: Business Partner (Customer), Material/Product, Sales Order, Invoice (Customer/Vendor), Payment, General Ledger (GL) Account, Cost Center.

"AuthorizeNet (Payment Event/Webhook) -> iPaaS (Transform/Validate) -> SAP (Sales Order/Invoice/GL Post) OR SAP (Refund Request) -> iPaaS (Transform/Validate) -> AuthorizeNet (Process Refund/Void)"

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for AuthorizeNet + SAP.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating AuthorizeNet

Integrating AuthorizeNet fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

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Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Data Mapping

Seamlessly map critical business entities between AuthorizeNet and SAP, ensuring data integrity and consistency across your payment and ERP landscapes. Our iPaaS provides a visual, AI-assisted mapping canvas to simplify complex transformations.

Transaction (AuthorizeNet) / Payment (SAP FI)

Represents a single payment event processed by AuthorizeNet and its corresponding financial record in SAP.

AuthorizeNet Fields

transactionId amount transactionStatus responseCode authCode submitTimeUTC invoiceNumber customerIp cardType cardNumberMasked

SAP Fields

PaymentDocumentID CompanyCode PostingDate Currency Amount Customer/VendorID BankDetails ReferenceDocuments (InvoiceID) GLAccountID

Mapping Notes

Map AuthorizeNet `transactionId` to an SAP reference field for traceability. AuthorizeNet `transactionStatus` (e.g., 'approved', 'declined', 'refunded') must map to appropriate SAP `Payment` or `Invoice` status. `amount` maps directly to SAP `Amount`. `invoiceNumber` can link to SAP `InvoiceID` for clearing.

Next Steps

See AuthorizeNet + SAP integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

eCommerce Payment to SAP Sales Order & FI Posting

A customer makes a purchase on your online store. The integration automatically processes the payment via AuthorizeNet, creates a sales order in SAP, and posts the corresponding financial transaction.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer completes checkout, payment initiated via AuthorizeNet.
  2. 1 AuthorizeNet processes transaction, sends webhook (Transaction) to iPaaS.
  3. 2 iPaaS maps AuthorizeNet Transaction details (amount, status, customer info, order ID) to SAP Sales Order (SalesOrderID, SoldToParty, TotalNetValue, SalesOrderItems).
  4. 3 iPaaS creates/updates Customer (Business Partner) in SAP if new or updated.
  5. 4 iPaaS creates Sales Order in SAP (APISALESORDERSRV or BAPISALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2).
  6. 5 Upon successful Sales Order creation, iPaaS posts payment as a Journal Entry (APIJOURNALENTRYSRV) or clears open items against the subsequent invoice in SAP FI.

Business Outcome

Real-time order fulfillment readiness, accurate inventory updates, and immediate financial visibility.

Frequency

Real-time, event-driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Accelerated Cash Flow & Financial Close
Automate payment posting and daily settlement reconciliation, reducing manual efforts by up to 80% and accelerating your financial closing cycles.
Enhanced PCI Compliance & Security
Leverage AuthorizeNet CIM for tokenization, minimizing sensitive card data handling on your servers and reducing your PCI DSS compliance scope.
Improved Data Accuracy & Consistency
Ensure real-time synchronization of customer, payment, and transaction data between AuthorizeNet and SAP, eliminating discrepancies and manual errors.
Reduced Fraud & Chargebacks
Integrate AuthorizeNet's AFDS with AI-augmented detection, enabling proactive fraud prevention and automated risk-based actions within your SAP workflows.
Streamlined Subscription Billing
Automate recurring billing and dunning management with AuthorizeNet ARB, increasing retention and ensuring timely revenue recognition in SAP.
Operational Efficiency & Cost Savings
Eliminate manual data entry and complex reconciliation tasks, freeing up finance and operations teams for higher-value activities.
Agile Business Adaptability
Utilize low-code iPaaS capabilities to quickly adapt payment workflows, integrate new sales channels, and respond to evolving business needs without extensive IT involvement.
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Accelerated Cash Flow & Financial Close

80% Reduction in manual reconciliation

📋 What You Get

Automate payment posting and daily settlement reconciliation, reducing manual efforts by up to 80% and accelerating your financial closing cycles.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 80% improvement in Reduction in manual reconciliation, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with AuthorizeNet + SAP in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both AuthorizeNet and SAP, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most AuthorizeNet + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST createTransaction Process new payment transactions (sale, auth-capture, refund, void) for eCommerce orders, subscription payments, or refund initiation from SAP.
POST/PUT createCustomerProfile / updateCustomerProfile Securely store or update customer payment and shipping profiles in AuthorizeNet CIM for recurring transactions and tokenization, synced from CRM/SAP.
POST/PUT createSubscription / updateSubscription Establish or modify recurring billing subscriptions using AuthorizeNet ARB, linked to a CIM customer profile, synchronized from subscription platforms.
POST getTransactionListForBatch Retrieve a list of transactions for a specific settlement batch, vital for daily financial reconciliation with SAP.
POST getUnsettledTransactionList Fetch transactions that have been authorized but not yet settled, useful for real-time order status updates or pre-settlement adjustments.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Status Mapping: AuthorizeNet `transactionStatus` to SAP `Payment` or `Invoice` status (e.g., 'approved' -> 'paid', 'declined' -> 'rejected', 'refunded' -> 'cleared').
  • Currency Conversion: Handle multi-currency transactions, ensuring correct currency codes and conversion rates are applied when posting to SAP.
  • Date/Time Formatting: Convert UTC timestamps from AuthorizeNet to SAP's required date/time formats and timezones.
  • Data Aggregation: Summarize AuthorizeNet `SettlementBatch` data (total sales, refunds, fees) into distinct `Journal Entries` for SAP `GL Accounts`.
  • Customer Matching: Use `merchantCustomerId` or email to match/create `Business Partner` records in SAP, with fallback logic for new customers.
  • Item Mapping: Map eCommerce `Product` IDs to SAP `MaterialID` for `Sales Order` creation, including quantity and price conditions.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • AuthorizeNet Transaction Decline: iPaaS updates eCommerce/CRM, triggers customer notification, and prevents SAP Sales Order creation.
  • SAP Material Not Found: iPaaS alerts operations, holds Sales Order creation, and logs error for manual resolution.
  • Duplicate Transaction: Idempotency logic prevents duplicate postings in SAP for retried AuthorizeNet requests.
  • Invalid GL Account: iPaaS flags error, routes Journal Entry to dead-letter queue for finance team to correct mapping.
  • API Rate Limit Exceeded: iPaaS automatically retries with exponential backoff, preventing service interruption.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for AuthorizeNet + SAP.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ How does AuthorizeNet integrate with SAP for payment processing?
AuthorizeNet integrates with SAP primarily through its robust APIs, orchestrated by an iPaaS platform. The iPaaS acts as middleware, mapping real-time transaction data from AuthorizeNet to your SAP Sales Orders, Invoices, and General Ledger. This enables automated payment posting, financial reconciliation, and refund processing, ensuring seamless data flow between your payment gateway and ERP.

iPaaS Advantages FAQs

▸ What are the benefits of using an iPaaS for AuthorizeNet and SAP integration?
An iPaaS provides a centralized platform for building, managing, and monitoring all AuthorizeNet-SAP integrations. Benefits include low-code/no-code workflow creation, robust error handling, sophisticated data mapping and transformation, API-first connectivity, event-driven architecture, and scalability. It significantly reduces development time, enhances data quality, and empowers business users to manage payment and financial workflows.

Use Cases FAQs

▸ Can I automate subscription billing with AuthorizeNet ARB and SAP?
Absolutely. AuthorizeNet's Automated Recurring Billing (ARB) API, combined with an iPaaS, allows you to fully automate subscription creation, recurring payment processing, and dunning management. The iPaaS can synchronize subscription data from your CRM/subscription management platform to ARB and then push payment status updates and invoice generation to SAP, ensuring seamless recurring revenue operations.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ How does this integration handle PCI DSS compliance and sensitive payment data?
The integration prioritizes PCI DSS compliance by leveraging AuthorizeNet's Customer Information Manager (CIM) for tokenization. This means sensitive cardholder data is securely stored by AuthorizeNet, and your systems (including the iPaaS) only handle non-sensitive tokens, significantly reducing your compliance scope. Secure API key management, encryption, and audit trails further enhance security.

AI Enhancements FAQs

▸ What role does AI play in AuthorizeNet SAP integrations?
AI powerfully augments AuthorizeNet SAP integrations by enhancing data quality (e.g., AI-driven deduplication and validation for Business Partners), automating complex mapping decisions, detecting anomalies in transactions (e.g., fraud detection with AFDS), and intelligently handling exceptions. It can also suggest optimal GL account mappings for settlement reconciliation.

Financial Operations FAQs

▸ How is financial reconciliation between AuthorizeNet and SAP automated?
Financial reconciliation is automated by leveraging AuthorizeNet's Settlement Batch APIs. The iPaaS schedules daily jobs to retrieve settlement data, processes individual transactions within the batch, and then posts aggregated Journal Entries to specific GL Accounts in SAP FI/CO. This ensures accurate and timely reconciliation of sales, refunds, and fees, minimizing manual effort.

Customization FAQs

▸ Can I customize the integration workflows to my specific business needs?
Yes, absolutely. Our iPaaS platform offers extensive customization options. You can visually design, configure, and modify integration workflows using low-code tools. This includes adding custom fields, defining conditional logic, extending existing workflows, and building custom business rules without extensive coding, allowing the integration to adapt to your unique business processes.

Data Mapping FAQs

▸ What are common data mapping challenges and how does the iPaaS address them?
Common challenges include mapping AuthorizeNet transaction statuses to various SAP payment/invoice statuses, harmonizing customer and address data across systems, and transforming payment gateway fees for accurate financial reconciliation. The iPaaS addresses these with robust visual mapping engines, AI-assisted mapping suggestions, and comprehensive transformation capabilities to ensure data consistency and accuracy.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with AuthorizeNet + SAP in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both AuthorizeNet and SAP, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most AuthorizeNet + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for AuthorizeNet + SAP.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See AuthorizeNet + SAP integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo