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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
In an increasingly connected world, effective communication between systems is critical for enterprises. RESTful APIs (Representational State Transfer) are an essential framework that facilitates this interaction through standardized protocols. This guide delves into best practices for designing RESTful APIs that meet the operational needs of South African enterprises, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.Understanding RESTful API FundamentalsRESTful APIs allow applications to communicate over HTTP, using methods such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to interact with resources. Key principles of REST include:Core Principles of RESTful APIsStatelessness: Each API call from the client must contain all the information the server needs to fulfill that request, making it stateless.Resource-Based: REST treats data as resources, which can be uniquely identified through URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers).Use of Standardized Methods: Clients and servers communicate seamlessly using standard HTTP methods.Representation of Resources: Resources can be represented in multiple formats such as JSON or XML, allowing flexibility in client-server communication.
In an increasingly connected world, effective communication between systems is critical for enterprises. RESTful APIs (Representational State Transfer) are an essential framework that facilitates this interaction through standardized protocols. This guide delves into best practices for designing RESTful APIs that meet the operational needs of South African enterprises, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
RESTful APIs allow applications to communicate over HTTP, using methods such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to interact with resources. Key principles of REST include:
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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
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Bidvest Data manages and continuously expand our own API where our customers would integrate and utilize our omnichannel services. We also provide integration services as part of creating digital workflows where our customers have publicly exposed APIs providing access to internal data and services.
Supports electronic “card not present” payment integration to secure ecommerce payment gateways. This enables tracking and reconciliation of digital payments for the ease of the consumer, and improved collections for our customers.
Bidvest Data provides end to end complex WhatsApp for business solutions driven through API integrations. This includes all WhatsApp template sending, self help services, with view and request statements services, make payments, and chat to live agents.
Provides pre-defined menu driven structured conversation, generative AI with natural language processing, and seamless transition to live agent chat support for a unique customer experience across various messaging platforms.