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Unify SAP ECC & AuthorizeNet: Seamless Payments, Automated ERP

Drive Financial Efficiency with Real-time Order-to-Cash, Secure Payments, and Intelligent Reconciliation.

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The Challenge

The Disconnect Between ERP and Payment Processing

Managing payments and financial records across disparate systems like SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet creates a labyrinth of manual processes, data silos, and compliance headaches. Without a robust integration, businesses face significant operational inefficiencies and financial risks.

  • Manual data entry of payment information into SAP ECC from AuthorizeNet reports.
  • Delayed reconciliation of payments, leading to inaccurate cash flow projections.
  • Lack of real-time visibility into order and payment statuses across systems.
  • Increased risk of human error in financial postings and customer data management.
  • Challenges in maintaining PCI DSS compliance when handling sensitive payment data.
  • Inefficient refund and void processing, impacting customer satisfaction.
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The Solution

Intelligent Integration: Connecting SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet

Our AI-powered iPaaS provides a comprehensive, low-code solution to bridge the gap between SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet. It orchestrates secure, real-time data flow, automating every step from order placement and payment capture to financial reconciliation and customer profile management. Move beyond manual processes and unlock unparalleled efficiency, accuracy, and compliance.

  • Pre-built, configurable connectors for SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet.
  • Visual drag-and-drop workflow designer for complex process automation.
  • Real-time data synchronization with event-driven triggers.
  • Robust data mapping and transformation engine.
  • Automated error handling, retry mechanisms, and alerts.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet 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 ECC and AuthorizeNet, 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 ECC + AuthorizeNet deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

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

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Pre-built, configurable connectors for SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet.
  • Visual drag-and-drop workflow designer for complex process automation.
  • Real-time data synchronization with event-driven triggers.
  • Robust data mapping and transformation engine.
  • Automated error handling, retry mechanisms, and alerts.
  • Centralized monitoring and analytics dashboards for integration health.
  • Support for PCI DSS compliance via AuthorizeNet CIM tokenization.

Robust Integration Architecture: SAP ECC & AuthorizeNet

Our integration solution leverages a modern iPaaS as the central nervous system, orchestrating data flow between SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet. It's designed for reliability, scalability, and security, ensuring seamless operations across your financial landscape.

Data Flow Steps

**Secure Connectivity**: Establish secure, encrypted connections to SAP ECC via SAP-certified connectors (BAPIs, RFCs, OData) and to AuthorizeNet via its REST/XML APIs, using dedicated service accounts and secrets management.

**Event Listener/Polling**: iPaaS continuously monitors for events in AuthorizeNet (via webhooks for transaction status, fraud alerts) and SAP ECC (via Change Pointers, custom ABAP events, or scheduled polls for master data).

**Data Extraction**: Extract relevant data entities (e.g., AuthorizeNet Transaction, SAP ECC Sales Order) from the source system.

**Data Transformation & Harmonization**: The iPaaS's visual mapping canvas and AI-assisted tools transform and harmonize data schemas to match the target system's requirements, applying business rules, validations, and lookups.

**Error Handling & Retry**: Implement robust error handling with configurable retry mechanisms (exponential backoff) and dead-letter queues for persistent failures, ensuring data integrity.

**Data Loading**: Load the transformed data into the target system using the appropriate API endpoints (e.g., `BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2` for SAP ECC, `/xml/v1/request.api` for AuthorizeNet).

**Status Updates & Notifications**: Update the originating system with transaction statuses and send alerts for critical events or failures.

Data Touchpoints

SAP ECC: Sales Order (VBAK/VBAP), Customer Master (KNA1/KNB1), Material Master (MARA/MARC/MARD), Invoice (VBRK/VBRP), Financial Document (BKPF/BSEG), Pricing Conditions (KONV/KONP).
AuthorizeNet: Transaction, Customer Profile (CIM), Payment Profile (CIM), Subscription (ARB), Order, Refund, Void, Settlement Batch, Fraud Event, Chargeback.

"An event-driven iPaaS acts as the intermediary. AuthorizeNet Webhooks trigger flows for new transactions or fraud events, pushing data to the iPaaS. The iPaaS processes and transforms this data before calling SAP ECC BAPIs/OData to create Sales Orders, Customer Masters, or Financial Documents. Conversely, events in SAP ECC (e.g., Credit Memo creation) trigger iPaaS flows to initiate refunds in AuthorizeNet. Daily scheduled syncs handle settlement batch reconciliation from AuthorizeNet to SAP ECC. All data movement is secured with encryption and validated for integrity."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet.

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 SAP ECC

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

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Data Mapping

Key Data Entities & Intelligent Mapping

The integration focuses on synchronizing critical business entities between SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet. Our iPaaS provides a visual, AI-assisted mapping canvas to ensure accurate and consistent data flow, handling complex transformations and validations.

Sales Order / Transaction

Represents a customer's request for goods/services (SAP ECC) and the corresponding payment event (AuthorizeNet).

SAP ECC Fields

VBAK-VBELN (Sales Document Number) VBAK-AUART (Sales Document Type) VBAK-VKORG (Sales Organization) VBAK-VTWEG (Distribution Channel) VBAP-MATNR (Material Number) VBAP-KWMENG (Order Quantity) VBAP-NETWR (Net Value) VBAK-KUNNR (Sold-to Party - Customer Number)

AuthorizeNet Fields

transactionId amount transactionType (AuthOnly, AuthCapture) transactionStatus (approved, settled) invoiceNumber (often mapped from SAP VBELN) customerProfileId paymentProfileId authCode

Mapping Notes

The SAP ECC Sales Order (VBAK/VBAP) is typically created *after* a successful AuthorizeNet Transaction. Key mapping involves linking the AuthorizeNet `invoiceNumber` (or a custom field) to SAP's `VBAK-VBELN` or a reference field. `amount` from AuthorizeNet maps to `VBAK-NETWR` (Net Value) and `VBAK-WAERK` (Document Currency). `customerProfileId` should be linked to the SAP ECC 'Customer Master'.

Next Steps

See SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet 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 Order-to-Cash Automation

Automate the flow of customer orders from your online store, through AuthorizeNet for payment processing, and directly into SAP ECC as sales orders, ensuring real-time inventory updates and financial postings.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 **Order Placement**: Customer completes purchase on eCommerce platform.
  2. 1 **Payment Capture**: iPaaS initiates payment authorization/capture via AuthorizeNet's API (e.g., `/rest/v1/payments`).
  3. 2 **Sales Order Creation**: Upon successful payment, iPaaS creates a 'Sales Order' in SAP ECC using `BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2` or OData `SalesOrderCollection` endpoint.
  4. 3 **Inventory Update**: SAP ECC 'Material Master' inventory (MARD-LABST) is deducted and changes are propagated to eCommerce.
  5. 4 **Financial Posting**: Payment details are linked to the SAP ECC sales order and later reconciled with financial documents.

Business Outcome

Accelerated cash flow, reduced manual data entry, accurate real-time inventory, and improved customer experience with faster order fulfillment.

Frequency

Real-time, Event-Driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

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

Accelerated Order-to-Cash
Automate the entire sales order to payment capture process, ensuring immediate order fulfillment and faster revenue recognition.
Automated Financial Reconciliation
Eliminate manual reconciliation by automatically posting AuthorizeNet settlement batches to SAP ECC General Ledger, reducing errors and closing times.
Enhanced Data Accuracy & Integrity
Ensure consistent and accurate financial, customer, and transaction data across SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet, minimizing discrepancies and audit risks.
PCI DSS Compliance & Security
Utilize AuthorizeNet's CIM for tokenization and secure iPaaS channels to protect sensitive payment information, reducing your PCI compliance scope.
Reduced Operational Costs
Streamline payment-related workflows, freeing up valuable accounting and IT resources to focus on strategic initiatives.
Real-time Visibility & Fraud Detection
Gain instant insights into payment statuses and leverage AuthorizeNet's AFDS integrated with AI for proactive fraud alerts and mitigation.
Scalability for Growth
The iPaaS architecture is designed to handle increasing transaction volumes and supports expansion into new sales channels without compromising performance.
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Accelerated Order-to-Cash

20-30% Faster Cash Application

📋 What You Get

Automate the entire sales order to payment capture process, ensuring immediate order fulfillment and faster revenue recognition.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 20-30% improvement in Faster Cash Application, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet 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 ECC and AuthorizeNet, 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 ECC + AuthorizeNet 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 /sap/opu/odata/sap/SD_SALESDOCUMENT_SRV/SalesOrderCollection Create new sales orders from external systems (e.g., eCommerce) using OData services via SAP Gateway. Supports modern RESTful interactions.
RFC BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2 Programmatically create sales orders in SAP ECC, widely used for robust, high-volume order ingestion with extensive parameter control.
RFC BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST Post financial accounting documents directly to the General Ledger, used for payment reconciliation and journal entries.
RFC BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1 Create new customer master data records in SAP ECC from external CRM or eCommerce systems.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • **Currency Conversion**: Automate conversion of payment amounts if SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet operate in different currencies.
  • **Status Mapping**: Map AuthorizeNet `transactionStatus` (e.g., 'approved', 'declined', 'settled') to specific SAP ECC sales order or financial document statuses.
  • **Customer ID Harmonization**: Map AuthorizeNet `merchantCustomerId` to SAP ECC `KNA1-KUNNR` and vice-versa, ensuring unique identifiers.
  • **Address Standardization**: Standardize address formats between systems to prevent data entry errors.
  • **G/L Account Determination**: Dynamically determine appropriate SAP ECC General Ledger accounts for AuthorizeNet transaction types (sales, refunds, fees).
  • **Tax Calculation Integration**: Reconcile tax amounts calculated by AuthorizeNet with SAP ECC's internal tax engine or external tax solutions.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • AuthorizeNet transaction declined due to insufficient funds or invalid card details.
  • SAP ECC BAPI call failing due to invalid material number or customer ID.
  • Network timeout during an API call between iPaaS and either system.
  • Data validation failure due to missing mandatory fields in the payload.
  • Duplicate transaction attempt due to retry without idempotency key.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet.

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

▸ What is the best way to integrate SAP ECC with AuthorizeNet?
The most effective approach is to use a modern Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). An iPaaS provides pre-built connectors for both SAP ECC (BAPIs, RFCs, IDocs, OData) and AuthorizeNet (REST/XML APIs, webhooks), facilitating API-first, event-driven integrations with robust data mapping, orchestration, and monitoring capabilities. This approach is more scalable, secure, and easier to maintain than custom-coded solutions.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ How does iPaaS ensure PCI DSS compliance when integrating AuthorizeNet with SAP ECC?
iPaaS platforms are designed with security in mind. For AuthorizeNet, it leverages the Customer Information Manager (CIM) for tokenization, ensuring raw card data never touches your systems. Combined with secure credential management, data encryption (in transit and at rest), strict access control within the iPaaS, and regular security audits, full PCI DSS compliance can be maintained.

Low-Code/No-Code FAQs

▸ Can I use low-code tools to automate workflows involving SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet?
Absolutely. Modern iPaaS platforms offer robust low-code/no-code environments that empower business users and citizen integrators to visually design, deploy, and manage complex workflows involving both SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet. This allows for rapid automation of tasks like order processing, invoice reconciliation, and refund management without requiring deep coding expertise.

AI Enhancements FAQs

▸ How can AI enhance my SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet integrations?
AI can significantly augment these integrations by providing intelligent data mapping suggestions, automated validation and anomaly detection for transactions (e.g., suspicious payments, reconciliation discrepancies), predictive insights for operational efficiency, and autonomous exception handling. This reduces manual effort, improves data quality, and makes your financial workflows more resilient and intelligent.

Integration Challenges FAQs

▸ What are the common challenges when integrating SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet, and how are they solved?
Common challenges include navigating SAP ECC's complex data model, managing various integration interfaces (BAPIs, RFCs, IDocs, OData), ensuring real-time performance for high-volume transactions, implementing robust error handling and reconciliation, and maintaining security. A robust iPaaS helps abstract much of this complexity by providing pre-built connectors, visual mapping, event-driven architecture, and comprehensive monitoring.

Performance FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS help with SAP ECC's performance during AuthorizeNet integrations?
An iPaaS optimizes SAP ECC performance by offloading complex data transformations, managing message queues to prevent system overload, implementing intelligent batching for high-volume transactions, and enabling asynchronous processing. It also provides robust monitoring to identify and address performance bottlenecks proactively, ensuring SAP ECC remains stable and responsive.

Payment Processing FAQs

▸ What's the difference between a 'void' and a 'refund' with AuthorizeNet, and how does integration handle them?
A 'void' cancels an authorized transaction before it has settled (typically within the same business day), meaning funds are never fully transferred. A 'refund' reverses a transaction that has already settled and funds have been captured, returning money to the customer. Your iPaaS workflows should distinguish between these for accurate financial processing: a void might update a sales order status, while a refund would trigger a credit memo or financial document in SAP ECC.

Monitoring & Observability FAQs

▸ How can I monitor the health and performance of my SAP ECC AuthorizeNet integrations?
A modern iPaaS provides centralized monitoring dashboards, alerts, and logging capabilities for all integration flows. You can track transaction volumes, latency, error rates, API usage for both SAP ECC and AuthorizeNet, and receive automated notifications for critical issues. This enables proactive identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks or operational issues.
Next Steps

See SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet 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
Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet 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 ECC and AuthorizeNet, 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 ECC + AuthorizeNet 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 SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet.

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 SAP ECC + AuthorizeNet 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