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Unlock Seamless Financial Operations: TIMS & AuthorizeNet Integration

Automate payments, accelerate reconciliation, and ensure PCI compliance with a powerful, AI-driven integration solution for your TIMS ERP and AuthorizeNet payment gateway.

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The Challenge

The Challenges of Disconnected Payments & ERP

Managing payments and financial data across disparate systems like AuthorizeNet and TIMS can introduce significant operational hurdles, leading to inefficiencies, inaccuracies, and compliance risks.

  • Manual Payment Reconciliation: Hours spent manually matching AuthorizeNet settlement reports to TIMS invoices and payments, prone to human error.
  • Delayed Order Processing: Lag between payment capture and TIMS sales order creation/fulfillment, impacting customer experience and inventory accuracy.
  • Inconsistent Customer Data: Discrepancies in customer payment profiles and billing information across e-commerce, CRM, and TIMS.
  • PCI DSS Compliance Burden: Storing or handling raw credit card data increases security risks and compliance scope.
  • Lack of Real-time Financial Visibility: Delayed updates on payment statuses, refunds, and voids hinder accurate cash flow forecasting and financial reporting in TIMS.
  • Complex Error Handling: Manual identification and resolution of payment processing errors, leading to lost revenue and customer frustration.
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The Solution

The Unified Solution: TIMS & AuthorizeNet via iPaaS

Our integration solution leverages a powerful iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) to create an intelligent, automated bridge between TIMS and AuthorizeNet. This ensures secure, real-time data flow, streamlining your entire financial ecosystem.

  • Real-time Order & Payment Sync: Instantly transfer e-commerce orders, payment authorizations, and captures from AuthorizeNet to TIMS.
  • Automated Payment Reconciliation: Automatically match AuthorizeNet settlement batches to TIMS invoices and GL entries, enhanced by AI for anomaly detection.
  • Secure Customer Payment Management (CIM): Synchronize customer and tokenized payment profiles with AuthorizeNet's CIM, ensuring PCI DSS compliance.
  • Refund & Void Automation: Initiate and process refunds or voids directly from TIMS, with immediate updates in AuthorizeNet and TIMS.
  • Master Data Management: Maintain consistent customer and product data across TIMS, AuthorizeNet, and other connected systems.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with AuthorizeNet + TIMS 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 TIMS, 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 + TIMS 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 Order & Payment Sync: Instantly transfer e-commerce orders, payment authorizations, and captures from AuthorizeNet to TIMS.
  • Automated Payment Reconciliation: Automatically match AuthorizeNet settlement batches to TIMS invoices and GL entries, enhanced by AI for anomaly detection.
  • Secure Customer Payment Management (CIM): Synchronize customer and tokenized payment profiles with AuthorizeNet's CIM, ensuring PCI DSS compliance.
  • Refund & Void Automation: Initiate and process refunds or voids directly from TIMS, with immediate updates in AuthorizeNet and TIMS.
  • Master Data Management: Maintain consistent customer and product data across TIMS, AuthorizeNet, and other connected systems.
  • Advanced Error Handling & Monitoring: Proactive alerts, automated retries, and dead-letter queues ensure data integrity and minimize downtime.

Technical Integration Overview: Bridging TIMS and AuthorizeNet

Our iPaaS-driven integration establishes robust, secure, and scalable data flows between TIMS and AuthorizeNet. It leverages an API-first, event-driven approach to ensure real-time synchronization and operational efficiency.

Data Flow Steps

Connection Establishment: Securely connect to TIMS using OAuth 2.0 and AuthorizeNet using API Login ID/Transaction Key via pre-built iPaaS connectors.

Event Listener Setup: Configure AuthorizeNet webhooks for transaction status updates, fraud events, and recurring billing notifications. Set up polling or TIMS webhooks for internal TIMS events (e.g., new invoice for payment application).

Data Mapping & Transformation: Utilize the iPaaS's visual mapping canvas to define how entities like AuthorizeNet's 'Transaction' map to TIMS 'Payment' and 'General Ledger Entry', applying necessary transformations (e.g., currency, date format, status codes).

Workflow Orchestration: Design multi-step workflows. For example, an AuthorizeNet 'Transaction Approved' event triggers a flow to create a TIMS 'Sales Order', then an 'Invoice', and finally a 'Payment' record.

Error Handling & Monitoring: Implement robust error handling with automated retries, dead-letter queues, and real-time alerts. Monitor all integration flows from a centralized dashboard.

Deployment & Governance: Deploy integrations through Dev, QA, and Production environments with version control and audit trails, ensuring stability and compliance.

Data Touchpoints

AuthorizeNet to TIMS: Transaction details (amount, status, type, authCode, invoiceNumber), Customer Profile ID, Payment Profile ID, Settlement Batch data, Refund/Void confirmations.
TIMS to AuthorizeNet: Sales Order details (for payment capture context), Customer details (for CIM profile creation), Refund/Void requests (original transaction ID, amount).
Bi-directional Sync: Customer Master Data (Name, Address, Email), Payment Profile references (tokenized IDs).

"The integration architecture features a central iPaaS orchestrator. AuthorizeNet's payment success events (via webhooks or API calls) trigger workflows in the iPaaS. The iPaaS then transforms and routes this payment data to create/update Sales Orders, Invoices, and Payment records in TIMS via its APIs. Conversely, TIMS-initiated refunds or customer updates trigger iPaaS workflows to interact with AuthorizeNet's Refund/CIM APIs. Daily settlement reports from AuthorizeNet are pulled by the iPaaS, reconciled, and posted as GL entries in TIMS."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for AuthorizeNet + TIMS.

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.

Hover over the steps on the right to see detailed integration points.
Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Mapping for TIMS and AuthorizeNet

Our iPaaS solution facilitates precise, field-level mapping between critical TIMS and AuthorizeNet entities, ensuring data integrity and consistency across your financial and payment systems. AI-assisted mapping accelerates this process and reduces errors.

Customer

Synchronizes customer records to ensure a unified view across sales, accounting, and payment processing, facilitating recurring payments and personalized experiences.

AuthorizeNet Fields

CustomerID ExternalID CompanyName/FirstName LastName Email Phone BillingAddress ShippingAddress PaymentTerms CreditLimit

TIMS Fields

customerProfileId merchantCustomerId description email

Mapping Notes

TIMS `CustomerID` maps to AuthorizeNet `merchantCustomerId` for cross-referencing. Billing and Shipping addresses should be synchronized bi-directionally, often with TIMS as the source of truth for financial addresses.

Next Steps

See AuthorizeNet + TIMS 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.

E-commerce Sales Order & Payment Automation

When a customer places an order on your e-commerce platform, the integration ensures immediate payment capture via AuthorizeNet and creates a corresponding Sales Order, Invoice, and Payment record in TIMS. Inventory is updated, and fulfillment is triggered without manual intervention.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer checks out on website.
  2. 1 AuthorizeNet processes payment via API.
  3. 2 AuthorizeNet webhook notifies iPaaS of successful transaction.
  4. 3 iPaaS creates Sales Order in TIMS via `/api/v1/sales_orders` endpoint.
  5. 4 iPaaS creates Payment record in TIMS via `/api/v1/payments` and links to Invoice.
  6. 5 TIMS updates inventory via `/api/v1/inventory/{sku}/quantity` and triggers fulfillment.

Business Outcome

Real-time order processing, accurate inventory levels, faster cash flow, reduced manual data entry and errors.

Frequency

Real-time, Event-driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

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

Accelerate Order-to-Cash Cycle
Streamline payment capture and sales order processing, reducing manual delays from days to minutes and enabling faster fulfillment.
Enhance Financial Accuracy
Automate reconciliation of AuthorizeNet settlements with TIMS, minimizing manual errors and ensuring precise General Ledger postings.
Boost Operational Efficiency
Eliminate manual data entry for payments, refunds, and customer profiles, freeing up accounting and customer service teams.
Strengthen PCI DSS Compliance
Leverage AuthorizeNet CIM for tokenization and secure data handling, reducing your compliance scope and safeguarding sensitive payment information.
Gain Real-time Financial Visibility
Access up-to-the-minute payment statuses, revenue figures, and GL impacts directly within TIMS for informed decision-making.
Improve Customer Experience
Ensure faster order confirmation, smooth payment processing, and accurate refund handling, leading to higher customer satisfaction.
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Accelerate Order-to-Cash Cycle

30-50% Faster Order Processing

📋 What You Get

Streamline payment capture and sales order processing, reducing manual delays from days to minutes and enabling faster fulfillment.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 30-50% improvement in Faster Order Processing, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with AuthorizeNet + TIMS 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 TIMS, 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 + TIMS 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 /api/v1/sales_orders Create new sales orders in TIMS from e-commerce platforms after payment capture.
PUT /api/v1/inventory/{sku}/quantity Update inventory levels in TIMS, often triggered by sales orders or fulfillment events.
POST /api/v1/customers Create new customer records in TIMS, or update via PUT method for master data sync.
POST /api/v1/payments Record incoming payments in TIMS and apply them to outstanding invoices.
POST /api/v1/generalledgerentries Post journal entries for financial adjustments, fees, and settlement reconciliation.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Status Mapping: Map AuthorizeNet transaction statuses (e.g., 'approved', 'declined', 'refunded') to corresponding TIMS `Sales Order` and `Payment` statuses.
  • Currency Conversion: Automatically convert amounts if TIMS and AuthorizeNet operate in different currencies, using real-time exchange rates.
  • Date Formatting: Standardize date/time formats from AuthorizeNet (`submitTimeUTC`) to TIMS (`OrderDate`, `PaymentDate`).
  • Data Enrichment: Pull additional customer/product details from source systems (e.g., CRM, PIM) to enrich TIMS records where AuthorizeNet data is limited.
  • GL Account Assignment: Dynamically assign TIMS `AccountID`s for `General Ledger Entries` based on AuthorizeNet `transactionType` (e.g., sales revenue, processing fees, chargeback expenses).
  • PCI Tokenization: Ensure only tokenized `Payment Profile IDs` (CIM) are stored in TIMS or CRM, never raw card data.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Transient API Failures: Network glitches, temporary service unavailability. Handled by automated retries with exponential backoff.
  • Data Validation Errors: Invalid SKU, missing customer ID, incorrect date format. Routed to dead-letter queue, AI suggests corrections.
  • Duplicate Transaction: Caused by retry without idempotency. Prevented by using idempotent API calls or checking for existing records.
  • Rate Limit Exceeded: Handled by intelligent queuing, batching, and throttling within the iPaaS.
  • Auth/Permission Issues: Invalid API keys, expired tokens. Trigger immediate critical alerts for security team.
  • Partial Failures: One line item fails while others succeed. Requires transactional integrity or compensating transactions.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for AuthorizeNet + TIMS.

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 FAQs

▸ What is the primary benefit of integrating TIMS with AuthorizeNet?
The primary benefit is the automation of your entire order-to-cash cycle, from secure payment capture in AuthorizeNet to real-time financial posting and reconciliation in TIMS. This significantly reduces manual effort, eliminates errors, accelerates cash flow, and enhances financial accuracy and PCI DSS compliance.

Security FAQs

▸ How does this integration handle PCI DSS compliance?
The integration leverages AuthorizeNet's Customer Information Manager (CIM) for tokenization, ensuring that raw credit card data never touches your systems or the iPaaS. Only secure tokens (Customer Profile IDs, Payment Profile IDs) are exchanged, drastically minimizing your PCI DSS compliance scope and enhancing security.

Technology FAQs

▸ Can I use low-code tools to customize the integration workflows?
Absolutely. The iPaaS platform provides a robust low-code/no-code environment with a visual drag-and-drop workflow designer. This empowers business users and citizen integrators to easily design, modify, and deploy complex integration flows and data transformations without extensive coding, accelerating development and reducing IT dependency.

AI FAQs

▸ How does AI enhance the TIMS-AuthorizeNet integration?
AI augments the integration by suggesting accurate field mappings, detecting anomalies in payment transactions and reconciliation data, automating exception handling, and inferring complex business rules. This leads to higher data quality, reduced manual intervention, and more proactive issue resolution.

Error Handling FAQs

▸ What happens if an AuthorizeNet payment fails to sync with TIMS?
Our solution includes robust error handling. Failed transactions are automatically retried with exponential backoff for transient issues. Persistent errors (e.g., data validation) are routed to a dead-letter queue for manual review and correction, with real-time alerts sent to relevant teams. This ensures no data is lost and issues are resolved quickly.

Workflows FAQs

▸ Does the integration support real-time inventory updates in TIMS based on sales?
Yes, when an e-commerce order is paid via AuthorizeNet, the integration can immediately create a Sales Order in TIMS, which then triggers real-time inventory deductions. If TIMS supports webhooks for inventory changes, these can also be pushed to other systems for multi-channel accuracy.
▸ How are refunds and voids handled between TIMS and AuthorizeNet?
The integration automates refund and void processing. A refund/void request initiated in TIMS (e.g., for a returned item) will trigger the iPaaS to process the corresponding action in AuthorizeNet, and then update the original TIMS payment/invoice and General Ledger entries to reflect the reversal.

Monitoring FAQs

▸ What kind of monitoring and analytics are available for the integration?
The iPaaS provides centralized monitoring dashboards offering real-time visibility into integration health, transaction volumes, success/failure rates, API usage, and processing latency. Detailed logs and customizable alerts ensure you're always aware of your integration's status and can proactively address any issues.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with AuthorizeNet + TIMS 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 TIMS, 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 + TIMS 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 + TIMS.

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 + TIMS 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