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BridgePay + TIMS Integration

Clarity Connect™ integrates BridgePay with TIMS, automating business processes and data sharing. This robust integration connects your critical business systems to automate order processing, inventory management, and customer data synchronization.

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The Challenge

Connecting with Clarity Connect™

Clarity Connect™ links BridgePay and TIMS through automation and data sharing. Integrating these platforms benefits businesses by streamlining processes and connecting front-end and back-end systems.

Considerations when connecting these applications include security, performance, and physical access. We support both SaaS (Cloud) and On-Premises connection types.

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The Solution

Seamless Integration

Our middleware platform ensures robust and reliable data transfer between BridgePay and TIMS.

  • TIMS: Any custom fields defined within TIMS for Sales Orders, Customers, or Invoices can be mapped and synchronized.
  • BridgePay: While BridgePay typically has a fixed schema for core payment data, custom metadata can often be passed through transactions and mapped to TIMS.
  • iPaaS: The iPaaS allows for easy extension to handle and map custom fields from any connected system to TIMS or BridgePay, ensuring full data fidelity.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with BridgePay + 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 BridgePay 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 BridgePay + 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

  • TIMS: Any custom fields defined within TIMS for Sales Orders, Customers, or Invoices can be mapped and synchronized.
  • BridgePay: While BridgePay typically has a fixed schema for core payment data, custom metadata can often be passed through transactions and mapped to TIMS.
  • iPaaS: The iPaaS allows for easy extension to handle and map custom fields from any connected system to TIMS or BridgePay, ensuring full data fidelity.

Robust & Scalable Integration Architecture

Our integration solution for TIMS and BridgePay is built on a modern, API-first, event-driven architecture powered by an iPaaS. This ensures high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance for your critical financial operations.

Data Flow Steps

Event-Driven Architecture: Utilizing BridgePay webhooks for real-time payment notifications to trigger immediate actions in TIMS via the iPaaS.

API-First Integration: Relying on robust RESTful APIs from both TIMS and BridgePay for programmatic and secure data exchange.

Canonical Data Model: Standardizing common entities (Customer, Order, Payment) within the iPaaS to ensure consistency across all connected systems.

Asynchronous Processing: Handling high-volume or non-critical operations (e.g., settlement report processing) asynchronously to avoid blocking real-time workflows.

Batch Processing (for reports): Efficiently retrieving and processing daily settlement reports from BridgePay in batches for TIMS GL updates.

Data Touchpoints

iPaaS Platform: The central hub for connectivity, data mapping, transformation, workflow orchestration, monitoring, and error handling.
TIMS ERP: The system of record for accounting, finance, inventory, and sales order management.
BridgePay Payment Gateway: Processes credit card transactions, tokenizes sensitive data, and provides settlement reports and webhooks.
eCommerce Platform (Optional): Source of customer orders that initiate payment processing via BridgePay and subsequent order creation in TIMS.
CRM (Optional): Source of customer master data synchronized with TIMS and BridgePay.
Data Warehouse/BI Tools (Optional): Destination for aggregated financial data from TIMS for advanced analytics.

"A conceptual diagram would show the eCommerce platform initiating payments via BridgePay. BridgePay sends webhooks to the iPaaS. The iPaaS acts as the central orchestration layer, connecting to TIMS via its APIs for Sales Order, Inventory, Invoice, Payment, and GL updates. The iPaaS also pulls settlement data from BridgePay and pushes it to TIMS. A monitoring dashboard oversees all data flows. AI capabilities are embedded within the iPaaS for intelligent mapping, validation, and error handling."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BridgePay + 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 BridgePay

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

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Data Mapping

Data Entity Mapping

Explore how data flows between systems with intelligent field mapping and transformation logic.

Customer

Synchronizes customer master data between TIMS and BridgePay, ensuring consistent billing and payment profiles.

BridgePay Fields

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

TIMS Fields

customerId firstName lastName email billingAddress shippingAddress paymentMethodTokens

Mapping Notes

CustomerID in TIMS often maps to customerId in BridgePay. ExternalID in TIMS can store the BridgePay customerId for cross-referencing. Billing and Shipping addresses require field-level mapping (street, city, state, zip). PaymentMethodTokens in BridgePay are securely stored and referenced in TIMS for future transactions without storing raw card data.

Next Steps

See BridgePay + 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.

End-to-End eCommerce Order-to-Cash Automation

Automate the complete lifecycle from a customer placing an order on an eCommerce platform, processing payment via BridgePay, to creating the sales order, updating inventory, and generating an invoice in TIMS. This ensures real-time order fulfillment and accurate financial records.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places order on eCommerce platform.
  2. 1 Payment initiated via BridgePay, processed and tokenized.
  3. 2 BridgePay webhook confirms successful payment to iPaaS.
  4. 3 iPaaS creates Sales Order in TIMS via `/api/v1/sales_orders`.
  5. 4 TIMS updates inventory via `/api/v1/inventory/{sku}/quantity`.
  6. 5 TIMS generates Invoice, status updated based on BridgePay payment.
  7. 6 Payment applied to Invoice in TIMS via `/api/v1/payments`.

Business Outcome

Accelerated order processing, real-time inventory accuracy, faster revenue recognition, reduced manual data entry and errors.

Frequency

Real-time (event-driven)

Implementation Timeline

Go live with BridgePay + 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 BridgePay 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 BridgePay + 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 eCommerce or CRM systems, often triggered by a successful BridgePay payment.
PUT /api/v1/inventory/{sku}/quantity Update inventory levels for specific SKUs in TIMS, reflecting items sold after payment confirmation.
POST /api/v1/customers Create new customer records in TIMS, synchronized with customer profiles from eCommerce or CRM, including payment tokens from BridgePay.
PUT /api/v1/customers/{id} Update existing customer records in TIMS, ensuring master data synchronization with any changes from payment systems (e.g., billing address).
POST /api/v1/invoices Create new invoices in TIMS, typically after sales order fulfillment and payment processing via BridgePay.
POST /api/v1/payments Record incoming payments in TIMS and apply them to outstanding invoices, directly from BridgePay transaction data.
POST /api/v1/generalledgerentries Post journal entries directly to the TIMS General Ledger for financial adjustments, settlement summaries, and fee recognition from BridgePay.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Customer ID Harmonization: Map eCommerce Customer ID -> BridgePay Customer ID -> TIMS ExternalID, then TIMS CustomerID is the master.
  • Order Status Mapping: Translate BridgePay transaction statuses (e.g., 'authorized', 'captured', 'failed') to TIMS Sales Order and Invoice statuses (e.g., 'Pending Payment', 'Processing', 'Paid').
  • Payment Method Normalization: Standardize payment method descriptions (e.g., 'Visa', 'MasterCard') across systems for consistent reporting.
  • Currency Conversion: Automatically convert transaction amounts if TIMS and BridgePay operate in different base currencies, using defined exchange rates.
  • GL Account Mapping: Dynamically map BridgePay transaction types (sales, refunds, fees) to specific TIMS General Ledger accounts based on configurable rules.
  • Address Standardization: Cleanse and standardize billing/shipping addresses using external services or internal rules before creating/updating records in TIMS.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • TIMS API is temporarily unavailable (handled by retries).
  • BridgePay transaction fails due to invalid card details (workflow notifies eCommerce and customer).
  • Data validation error during TIMS Sales Order creation (e.g., invalid SKU, missing customer data - routed to dead-letter queue).
  • Duplicate payment webhook received from BridgePay (handled by idempotent processing).
  • BridgePay settlement report contains unexpected transaction types (flagged for manual GL account mapping adjustment).
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BridgePay + 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.

Benefits FAQs

▸ What is the primary benefit of integrating TIMS and BridgePay?
The primary benefit is end-to-end automation of your order-to-cash cycle, from customer payment to TIMS accounting. This includes real-time payment processing, automated sales order creation, inventory updates, invoice generation, and significantly streamlined financial reconciliation, all leading to improved accuracy and efficiency.

Security FAQs

▸ How does this integration ensure PCI DSS compliance?
PCI DSS compliance is maintained by leveraging BridgePay's tokenization services. Raw cardholder data never touches your TIMS ERP or the iPaaS. Only secure payment tokens are transmitted and stored, drastically reducing the scope and burden of compliance for your internal systems.

Customization FAQs

▸ Can I customize the data mapping between TIMS and BridgePay?
Absolutely. Our iPaaS provides a visual, low-code mapping canvas that allows business users to easily define, customize, and test data transformations and field mappings between TIMS and BridgePay. AI-assisted mapping can also suggest optimal configurations, accelerating setup and reducing errors.

Error Handling FAQs

▸ How are payment failures or transaction errors handled?
The iPaaS implements robust error handling. For transient issues, automated retry mechanisms with exponential backoff are in place. For persistent errors (e.g., data validation failures), transactions are routed to a dead-letter queue for manual review and correction. Proactive alerts notify relevant teams, and AI can even suggest resolutions for common error patterns.

Workflows FAQs

▸ Does this integration support real-time inventory updates in TIMS?
Yes, with an event-driven architecture, successful payments processed by BridgePay can immediately trigger updates to TIMS. This ensures that inventory levels in TIMS are accurate in near real-time, preventing overselling and optimizing stock management across all sales channels.

AI FAQs

▸ What are the benefits of using AI in TIMS and BridgePay integrations?
AI enhances integrations by providing intelligent mapping suggestions, automated data validation, anomaly detection (e.g., identifying potential fraud or reconciliation discrepancies), predictive insights for cash flow, and improved exception handling, leading to higher data quality and reduced manual effort.

Management FAQs

▸ How does the iPaaS manage different versions of my integration workflows?
The iPaaS offers comprehensive integration lifecycle management, including version control for all flows, mappings, and connectors. You can track changes, promote configurations through Dev-QA-Prod environments, and easily roll back to previous stable versions if needed, ensuring governance and stability.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with BridgePay + 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 BridgePay 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 BridgePay + 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 BridgePay + 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 BridgePay + 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