WMS Acquisitions API

Lets you create purchase orders, retrieve invoice information and designate budget and funds information as needed for your institution. Facilitates the ability to access and edit existing orders or update an individual order status, and submit purchase orders to fulfillment vendors. Invoice functions provide vendor information with specific details such as quantity, price, shipping, etc. Through the Acquisitions API, you can combine your data with external fulfillment vendor data, such as that from Amazon, Alibris, YBP and others and save a lot of time, steps and screens in acquisitions workflows.

What you get

You can get information about orders and invoices, including:

• Order data: Vendor, account numbers, internal and external identifiers, and comments
• Order item data: Worldcat resource, price, discount, shipping/service charges, tax, and notes
• Copy-level data: Branch/shelving location of items, fund information
• Invoice data: vendor information, vendor invoice number, notes, invoice total
• Invoice item information: specifics on items such as quantity, price, shipping
• Budgets: start and end date, status, and the funds which are associated
• Funds: subfunds, amount budgeted, encumbered and paid

Through this API, you can edit orders and order item data, and export invoice information to use in an external financial system such as SAP or PeopleSoft.

Who can use it

Qualifying Institutions

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Query protocols

OpenSearch

Record formats

XML

JSON

Authentication methods

• Developer Key

Base Service URL

https://acq.sd00.worldcat.org