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SAP Business ByDesign + Vantiv Integration

Clarity Connect™ integrates SAP Business ByDesign with Vantiv, 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 SAP Business ByDesign and Vantiv 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 SAP Business ByDesign and Vantiv.

  • Mapping of custom fields in ByDesign (e.g., marketing campaign ID on Sales Order) to Vantiv transaction metadata.
  • Support for custom attributes on Vantiv transactions for enhanced analytics or fraud scoring.
  • Extending ByDesign's Business Partner entity with Vantiv-specific customer IDs or payment tokens.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP Business ByDesign + Vantiv 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 SAP Business ByDesign and Vantiv, 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 SAP Business ByDesign + Vantiv deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

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

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Mapping of custom fields in ByDesign (e.g., marketing campaign ID on Sales Order) to Vantiv transaction metadata.
  • Support for custom attributes on Vantiv transactions for enhanced analytics or fraud scoring.
  • Extending ByDesign's Business Partner entity with Vantiv-specific customer IDs or payment tokens.

Robust Integration Architecture: SAP ByDesign & Vantiv via iPaaS

The recommended architecture leverages a modern iPaaS as the central nervous system, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient data exchange between SAP Business ByDesign and Vantiv. This avoids point-to-point complexities and provides a unified integration management platform.

Data Flow Steps

Event-Driven Architecture: Utilizing Vantiv webhooks for real-time transaction status updates and ByDesign event notifications where available, minimizing polling and latency.

Canonical Data Model: Defining a standardized data representation for common entities (Customer, Order, Payment) within the iPaaS to simplify mapping between ByDesign and Vantiv.

API-First Design: All interactions with ByDesign and Vantiv are via their official APIs, ensuring stability and adherence to best practices.

Asynchronous Processing: For high-volume or non-critical operations (e.g., settlement report processing), using message queues within the iPaaS to decouple ingestion from processing.

Request-Reply (Synchronous): For immediate actions like payment authorization and capturing, ensuring real-time feedback.

Data Touchpoints

iPaaS Platform: Central hub for connectors, data mapping, transformation, orchestration, monitoring, and error handling.
SAP Business ByDesign: Cloud ERP system, providing APIs for Sales Orders, Business Partners, Payments, and General Ledger.
Vantiv (Worldpay): Payment processing gateway, offering RESTful APIs for transactions, tokens, and settlement reports, plus webhooks.
External Systems: eCommerce platforms, CRM, POS, or subscription billing systems that initiate payment flows.
Secrets Manager: Secure storage for API keys and credentials for both ByDesign and Vantiv within the iPaaS.
Logging & Monitoring: Centralized dashboards for real-time visibility into integration health and data flows.

"Conceptual Diagram: [eCommerce/CRM] --(API/Webhooks)--> [iPaaS] --(API/Webhooks)--> [Vantiv Payment Gateway] <-- (Webhooks) -- [iPaaS] --(SOAP/OData API)--> [SAP Business ByDesign ERP] <-- (OData) -- [iPaaS]. Auxiliary services like AI Fraud Detection, Secrets Manager, and Monitoring Dashboard are integrated with the iPaaS."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP Business ByDesign + Vantiv.

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

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$599 /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 SAP Business ByDesign

Integrating SAP Business ByDesign 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.

Sales Order / Order (Payment Context)

The commercial agreement for goods/services. In ByDesign, it initiates order-to-cash. In Vantiv, it's the context for a payment Transaction.

SAP Business ByDesign Fields

[field, ID],[description, Unique Sales Order ID] [field, BuyerID],[description, Customer Business Partner ID] [field, TotalAmount],[description, Total order value] [field, CurrencyCode],[description, Order currency] [field, Status],[description, Order status (e.g., Open, In Process, Completed)] [field, RequestedFulfillmentDate],[description, Desired delivery date]

Vantiv Fields

[field, orderId],[description, Internal order ID, typically mapped from ByDesign Sales Order ID] [field, orderTotal],[description, Total amount of the order] [field, currency],[description, Currency of the order] [field, customerInfo],[description, Customer details for the order] [field, paymentTransactionId],[description, Reference to the Vantiv transaction]

Mapping Notes

The SAP Business ByDesign Sales Order ID should be consistently mapped to Vantiv's `merchantTransactionId` or `orderId` within the Transaction entity for easy cross-referencing and reconciliation. Order status updates from Vantiv (e.g., payment captured) should flow back to ByDesign to update the Sales Order status.

Next Steps

See SAP Business ByDesign + Vantiv integration in action.

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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 Order-to-Cash with Vantiv Payment & ByDesign Sync

Automates the entire lifecycle of an eCommerce order, from customer payment in Vantiv to sales order creation and cash receipt in SAP Business ByDesign, including inventory updates and fulfillment.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places order and submits payment via eCommerce.
  2. 1 iPaaS securely sends payment details to Vantiv for authorization/capture, leveraging tokenization.
  3. 2 Vantiv processes payment and returns transaction status and token.
  4. 3 iPaaS creates Sales Order in SAP Business ByDesign, linking customer (Business Partner), product, and payment details.
  5. 4 Payment status (e.g., 'Paid') is updated in ByDesign and eCommerce.
  6. 5 Inventory levels are updated in ByDesign and potentially synced back to eCommerce.

Business Outcome

Accelerated order fulfillment, real-time cash application, reduced manual data entry, improved customer experience, accurate inventory management.

Frequency

Real-time

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST /sap/bc/srt/scs/sap/managesalesorderin Create or update sales orders in ByDesign based on successful Vantiv payments.
POST /sap/bc/srt/scs/sap/managebusinesspartnerin Manage customer (Business Partner) master data in ByDesign, syncing details from Vantiv transactions.
POST /sap/bc/srt/scs/sap/managejournalentryvoucherin Post financial journal entries for Vantiv settlement reconciliation.
GET /sap/byd/odata/v1/erp/materials Query product/material master data (e.g., inventory levels) when orders are placed via eCommerce.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Currency Conversion: Automated currency conversion where Vantiv transaction currency differs from ByDesign's company currency, using exchange rates from a master data source.
  • GL Account Determination: Dynamic mapping of Vantiv transaction types (sales, fees, refunds) to specific SAP Business ByDesign General Ledger accounts based on pre-defined rules.
  • Data Harmonization: Standardizing customer address formats, product identifiers, and payment method descriptions between Vantiv and ByDesign schemas.
  • ID Generation: Generating unique `ReferenceDocumentID` in ByDesign for Vantiv `transactionId` for seamless traceability.
  • Error Enrichment: Adding contextual information to Vantiv error codes (e.g., 'Declined' to 'Payment Failed: Insufficient Funds') before logging or alerting.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Vantiv payment authorization failure (e.g., 'Declined') leading to a failed order in eCommerce and no Sales Order in ByDesign.
  • Invalid GL account mapping during settlement processing, preventing Journal Entry creation in ByDesign.
  • Network connectivity issues between iPaaS and Vantiv/ByDesign, causing transient API failures.
  • Duplicate Sales Order creation in ByDesign due to retry without idempotency key.
  • Mismatch between ByDesign customer ID and Vantiv customer ID leading to new, duplicate Business Partner creation.
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

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

General FAQs

▸ What are the primary benefits of integrating SAP Business ByDesign with Vantiv?
The main benefits include automated payment processing, real-time financial reconciliation, enhanced PCI DSS compliance through tokenization, accelerated cash flow, reduced manual data entry and errors, and a unified view of all payment and financial data.

Technical FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS facilitate the ByDesign-Vantiv integration and ensure PCI compliance?
An iPaaS centralizes all integration logic, offering pre-built connectors for both systems, visual mapping tools, and robust orchestration. For PCI compliance, it ensures raw cardholder data never touches your internal systems by securely routing it directly to Vantiv for tokenization, storing only the non-sensitive token in ByDesign or your CRM.

Workflows FAQs

▸ Can this integration automate my daily financial reconciliation process?
Absolutely. The iPaaS can retrieve daily settlement reports from Vantiv, parse the aggregated transaction data, map it to predefined General Ledger accounts, and automatically post journal entries into SAP Business ByDesign. This significantly reduces manual effort and speeds up your financial close.
▸ Is it possible to manage customer refunds and chargebacks through this integration?
Yes. Refunds can be initiated from SAP Business ByDesign (or a connected CRM) and processed through Vantiv via the iPaaS, with status updates flowing back. While Vantiv notifies of chargebacks, the iPaaS can automate alerts and facilitate the retrieval of necessary ByDesign data (e.g., Sales Order details) to help dispute them.

Transactions FAQs

▸ What types of transactions are supported by the SAP ByDesign and Vantiv integration?
The integration supports a comprehensive range of transactions, including payment authorizations, captures (sales), refunds, and voids. It also handles the secure tokenization of payment methods and the processing of daily settlement batches for reconciliation.

AI Capabilities FAQs

▸ How does AI enhance the integration workflows between ByDesign and Vantiv?
AI can augment workflows by providing intelligent data mapping suggestions, automating exception handling for reconciliation discrepancies, detecting anomalies in transactions for fraud prevention, and offering predictive insights for payment behavior and cash flow forecasting.

Security FAQs

▸ What are the security considerations for integrating ByDesign with a payment gateway like Vantiv?
Key security considerations include using Vantiv's tokenization to protect sensitive card data, implementing strict access controls with least privilege for API users, encrypting all data in transit (TLS 1.2+), enforcing IP whitelisting, and maintaining comprehensive audit trails for all integration activities.

Implementation FAQs

▸ How quickly can this integration be implemented?
Leveraging a low-code/no-code iPaaS platform with pre-built connectors and templates for SAP Business ByDesign and Vantiv significantly accelerates implementation. Initial critical workflows can often be deployed and generating value in a matter of weeks, rather than months, compared to custom coding.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP Business ByDesign + Vantiv.

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

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$599 /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 SAP Business ByDesign + Vantiv 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