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abas ERP Integration

Connect abas ERP to Salesforce, your web store and your payment gateways, so customers, orders and stock line up between abas and everything around it.

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  • Salesforce
  • Shopify
  • BigCommerce
  • Adobe Commerce (Magento)
  • PayPal
  • Cybersource
abas ERP connected to the CRM, stores and gateways around it

What abas ERP is, and what integration adds

abas ERP is business software for mid-sized manufacturers and distributors, developed in Karlsruhe, Germany, since 1980. Forterro, a London-based group of industrial software companies, bought abas in 2019 and still sells it under the abas name. Integration links it to the tools that sit outside it, such as a Salesforce org, a web store or a payment gateway. Clarity Connect moves records between them in both directions.

Records synced with abas ERP

  • Customers and contacts
  • Sales orders
  • Items and prices
  • Stock levels
  • Invoices
  • Delivery and order status

How the abas connection runs

The abas REST API

abas describes its REST API as a web interface for real-time data access to abas ERP, meant for connecting the ERP to third-party cloud applications. It's the interface a Connect task calls to read customers and stock and to create sales orders, so the integration works with abas's own records rather than writing to its database.

Other ways into abas

Logic that has to run inside abas can be written in Abas Java Objects (AJO), abas's Java development environment, or in its Flexible Interface Programming script language. abas also sells standard connectors, among them abas Connect, a PDM connector, a DMS connector and an MS SQL connector. Discovery decides which of these the project needs.

abas and Salesforce

abas ERP Sales manages prospects, customers, contacts, tasks and notes, so abas has CRM functions of its own. When the sales team works in Salesforce instead, accounts and contacts need to agree between the two, and reps need to see orders and invoices from abas. abas's standard connector list doesn't include Salesforce, so the link is built on the REST API.

On-premises or abas Cloud Edition

abas runs on your own servers or fully hosted, and the abas Cloud Edition has been open to all customers since the 2024.Q3.1 service pack (October 2025). Connect matches the setup: behind your firewall next to an on-premises abas, or in the cloud alongside a hosted one.

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Watch an online order travel into the ERP and its status come back in our Clarity Connect demo, or book a live walkthrough on your own systems.

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Systems we connect to abas ERP

Clarity Connect has connectors for each of these. We haven't written up an abas pairing in detail yet; a linked name opens that system's own integration page.

eCommerce platforms

Marketplaces

  • Amazon Fulfillment
  • Amazon Marketplace
  • Amazon Seller Central
  • eBay
  • Etsy
  • Walmart Marketplace
  • Wayfair

ERP and accounting

CRM

  • Agile CRM
  • Dynamics CRM
  • HubSpot
  • Pipedrive
  • Podio
  • QuoteWerks
  • Salesforce
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • Streak
  • SugarCRM
  • Zendesk
  • Zoho

Payments

  • Authorize.net
  • BNG
  • BridgePay
  • Chase Orbital Paymentech
  • Cybersource
  • Fiserv (First Data)
  • GoCardless
  • Heartland
  • Opayo (formerly Sage Pay)
  • Payeezy
  • Payoneer
  • PayPal
  • PayTrace
  • Stripe
  • Worldpay (formerly Vantiv)

Shipping and freight

  • A. Duie Pyle
  • AAA Cooper Transportation
  • ABF Freight System
  • Averitt Express
  • Day & Ross
  • Daylight Transport
  • Dayton Freight Lines
  • DHL
  • DPD
  • Estes Express Lines
  • FedEx
  • FedEx Freight
  • Oak Harbor Freight Lines
  • Parcelforce
  • Pitt Ohio
  • R+L Carriers
  • Roadrunner Freight
  • Saia
  • ShipStation
  • Southeastern Freight Lines
  • TForce Freight (UPS Freight)
  • TNT (FedEx)
  • UPS
  • USPS
  • Werner Enterprises
  • XPO

Content management

Marketing automation

  • Act-On
  • ActiveCampaign
  • Adobe Marketo Engage
  • ClickDimensions
  • Ontraport
  • Salesforce Account Engagement (Pardot)
  • SharpSpring

Email

  • Dotdigital (formerly dotmailer)
  • Elastic Email
  • Mailchimp
  • Mailjet
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • SendGrid
  • SMTP2GO

Social media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • X (Twitter)
  • YouTube

Analytics

  • Google Analytics
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Qualtrics

File storage

  • Amazon S3
  • Box
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive
  • Google Workspace (G Suite)
  • OneDrive

Databases

  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL

EHR and EMR

  • eClinicalWorks
  • Epic
  • LabVantage LIMS
  • LabWare LIMS
  • PioneerRx
  • STARLIMS
  • Thermo Fisher SampleManager LIMS

Other systems

  • Aareon QL
  • Abillity
  • Clickatell
  • Eventbrite
  • FTP
  • Groupon
  • HCL Notes (Lotus Notes)
  • Jira
  • Metapack
  • OData
  • Rithum (ChannelAdvisor)
  • SFTP
  • Slack
  • SurveyMonkey
  • Zoho People

Linked names have their own integration page.

Web stores beside the abas webshop

abas offers its own webshop, based on Shopware, and a B2B portal. Companies already selling through Shopify, BigCommerce or Adobe Commerce (Magento) can keep that store instead: Connect posts its orders to abas and sends abas stock and prices back to it.

How Clarity Connect runs it

Clarity Connect is Clarity's integration platform. It speaks to applications through databases, files, web services and APIs, keeps a persistent two-way link, and runs any number of tasks, each in real time or on a schedule. For abas that might mean Salesforce accounts synced hourly and web orders posted the moment they arrive. Clarity has built more than 3,000 integrations on it.

How a Clarity Connect project runs

  1. Discovery

    A Clarity business analyst documents the data fields and workflows each system can share and which ones you need.

  2. Tasks and mapping

    Each flow becomes a Connect task, such as orders to the ERP or stock to the store, set to run in real time or on a schedule.

  3. Testing

    Orders and updates are run end to end, including the return trip of statuses back to the customer-facing system.

  4. Live, with a dashboard

    Queues and scheduled tasks show in Connect's Hangfire dashboard. A job whose target is offline is retried 10 times, every 30 minutes, and can be re-queued once the cause is fixed.

Clarity Connect is sold as a SaaS subscription at $599 a month or as a one-time license at $15,000 with no ongoing fees, and larger projects are priced to scope. See pricing.

Questions

Who owns abas ERP now?

Forterro. It announced the acquisition of abas on June 25, 2019, and abas is still sold under its own name by Forterro Deutschland Abas GmbH in Karlsruhe.

Can abas ERP be integrated with Salesforce?

Yes. abas doesn't list a standard Salesforce connector, so Connect links the two through the abas REST API and the Salesforce API, syncing accounts and contacts and sending order and invoice status to Salesforce.

Does the integration work with the abas Cloud Edition?

Yes. Connect runs in the cloud next to a hosted abas, or behind your firewall when abas is on your own servers.

How is Clarity Connect priced?

$599 a month as SaaS, or $15,000 for a one-time license with no ongoing fees; larger projects are priced to scope. See pricing.

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Plan your abas ERP integration

Tell us which systems need abas data and which records each one should own. A Clarity business analyst maps it with your team before anything is built. Call (800) 928-8160, email sales@clarity-ventures.com or get a consultation.

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