Acquistion API Quick Start Guide

The purpose of this document is to assist the experienced software developer who wants to quickly come up to speed on how to use the Sierra Sierra acquisitions API to create a better and more streamlined ordering experience for Sierra library staff.

It’s likely that most of your library customers today use Innovative’s Quick Click or some other homegrown manual/semi-automated multi-step ordering process that enables them to export a file containing order and bib information from your system, transfer it using FTP or EDI and then load those records into Sierra.

Figure 1: Legacy Sierra acquisitions Process

 

The acquisitions API allows users to submit orders directly from your ordering software to the library’s Sierra system in real time, without requiring traditional FTP or EDI ordering and reducing the number of manual steps.

Figure 2: New Modern Sierra acquisitions Process