Sage Business Cloud Accounting Events

Cloud Elements supports events via polling or webhooks depending on the API provider. For more information about our Events framework, see Events Overview.

Supported Events and Resources

Cloud Elements supports polling events for Sage Business Cloud Accounting. After receiving an event, Cloud Elements standardizes the payload and sends an event to the configured callback URL of your authenticated element instance.

You can set up polling for the events resource. You can also copy the events configuration to poll other resources. See Configure Polling Through API for more information.

Note: Unless configured for a specific time zone, polling occurs in UTC.

Configure Polling Through the UI

To configure polling through the UI, follow the same steps to authenticate an element instance, and then turn on events. Select the resources to poll, and then click Create Instance. For more information, see Authenticate an Element Instance with Events (UI) or the element-specific authentication topic.

Configure Polling Through API

Use the /instances endpoint to authenticate with Sage One and create an element instance with polling enabled.

Note: The endpoint returns an element token upon successful completion. Retain the token for all subsequent requests involving this element instance.

To authenticate an element instance with polling:

  1. Get an authorization grant code by completing the steps in Getting a redirect URL and Authenticating users and receiving the authorization grant code.
  2. Construct a JSON body as shown below (see Parameters):

    {
      "element":{
        "key":"sageone"
      },
      "providerData":{
        "code": "<AUTHORIZATION_GRANT_CODE>"
      },
      "configuration":{
        "oauth.api.key": "<CLIENT_ID>",
        "oauth.api.secret": "<CLIENT_SECRET>",
        "signature.secret": "<SIGNING_SECRET>",
        "apim.subscription.key": "<SUBSCRIPTION_PRIMARY_KEY_or_APIM_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY>",
        "country": "<COUNTRY_CODE>",
        "oauth.callback.url": "<CALLBACK_URL>",
        "event.notification.enabled": true,
        "event.notification.callback.url": "http://mycoolapp.com",
        "event.poller.refresh_interval": "<minutes>",
        "event.poller.configuration":{
          "customers":{
            "url":"/hubs/finance/customers?where=lastModifiedDate>='${date:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'}' and attributes='created_at,updated_at",
            "idField":"id",
            "datesConfiguration":{
              "updatedDateField":"updated_at",
              "updatedDateFormat":"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",
              "updatedDateTimezone":"GMT",
              "createdDateField":"created_at",
              "createdDateFormat":"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",
              "createdDateTimezone":"GMT"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "tags":[
        "Test"
      ],
      "name":"API_Polling"
    }
    
    Note: To poll additional resources, copy the customers configuration and replace customers with the name of the resource.
  3. Call the following, including the JSON body you constructed in the previous step:

    POST /instances
    
    Note: Make sure that you include the User and Organization keys in the header. For more information, see Authorization Headers, Organization Secret, and User Secret.
  4. Locate the token and id in the response and save them for all future requests using the element instance.

Example JSON with Polling

instance JSON with polling events enabled:

{
  "element":{
    "key":"sageone"
  },
  "providerData":{
    "code":"1c6ff4089d58d80e86482ab7d5b97f15dd7b041d"
  },
  "configuration":{
    "oauth.api.key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "oauth.api.secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "signature.secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "apim.subscription.key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "country": "US",
    "oauth.callback.url": "https://mycoolapp.com",
    "event.notification.enabled":true,
    "event.notification.callback.url":"http://mycoolapp.com",
    "event.poller.refresh_interval":"15",
    "event.poller.configuration":{
      "customers":{
        "url":"/hubs/finance/customers?where=lastModifiedDate>='${date:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'}' and attributes='created_at,updated_at",
        "idField":"id",
        "datesConfiguration":{
          "updatedDateField":"updated_at",
          "updatedDateFormat":"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",
          "updatedDateTimezone":"GMT",
          "createdDateField":"created_at",
          "createdDateFormat":"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",
          "createdDateTimezone":"GMT"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "tags":[
    "Test"
  ],
  "name":"API_Polling"
}

Parameters

API parameters not shown in Cloud Elements are in code formatting.

ParameterDescriptionData Type
'key'The element key.
sageone
string
Name
name
The name for the element instance created during authentication.Body
oauth.callback.urlThe Callback URL for the connected app you created for Sage One. This is the Callback URL that you recorded in API Provider Setup.
oauth.api.keyThe key obtained from registering your app with the provider. This is the Client ID that you recorded in API Provider Setup.string
oauth.api.secretThe client secret obtained from registering your app with the provider. This is the Client Secret that you recorded in API Provider Setup.string
signature.secretThe signing secret obtained from registering your app with the provider. This is the Signing Secret that you recorded in API Provider Setup.string
APIM Subscription Key
apim.subscription.key
The subscription primary key obtained from subscribing to the Sage One API. This is the Primary Key that you recorded in API Provider Setup.
Note: When authenticating through the UI, you can use the default or your own subscription primary key.
string
countryThe two digit country code associated with the account of the authenticating user.string
Events Enabled
event.notification.enabled
Optional. Identifies that events are enabled for the element instance.
Default: false.
boolean
Event Notification Callback URL
event.notification.callback.url
The URL where you want Cloud Elements to send the events.string
Event poller refresh interval (mins)
event.poller.refresh_interval
A number in minutes to identify how often the poller should check for changes.number
Configure Polling
"event.poller.configuration"
Resource to poll along with its configuration.JSON Object
customers
"event.poller.configuration": "{\"customers\"...}"
Optional
The Sage One customers resource available for polling.
JSON object
tagsOptional. User-defined tags to further identify the instance.string