Product: Transaction Manager & Integration Service

Article Link: http://help.truecommerce.com/en/articles/8307756-transaction-manager-integration-service-what-s-the-difference-between-v1-and-v2

If you're looking to integrate Transaction Manager with your local (On-Premise) ERP you will need a way to transfer data from Transaction Manager to your ERP in order to process orders, invoices, inventory, and more.

The Integration Service allows a connection to be made and ultimately performs the data transfer from TrueCommerce's Transaction Manager system with your ERP. While both the V1 and the V2 Integration Service perform this task - it's how they connect that separates them from each other.

With the Legacy Integration Service (V1) each Workstation installs the Integration Service and must have direct access to the ERP Server from that machine in order to perform integrated actions with Transaction Manager.

Each Workstation that interacts with Transaction Manager does so locally through the Integration Service installed on their machine. Every time an Import or an Export is performed the service (from the workstation's machine) will attempt to reach out to your ERP Server from the perspective of the Workstation.

With this configuration, every Workstation would require access to your ERP, Transaction Manager, and most often your SQL/ERP Server depending on your setup often requiring setting up of Network Paths, ODBCs, as well as the Integration Service with each machine requiring a proper copy of TrueCommerce's Integration DLL

The Advance Integration Service (V2) uses a single Integration Service installation (typically on the Server) that all Workstations can then leverage to perform Integrated actions with your ERP by creating a direct connection to Transaction Manager.

Whenever an Import or an Export operation is performed Transaction Manager pushes that request to the Server that has the Integration Service installed and all operations run through that regardless of which machine requested it, reducing the number of connections required to the ERP Server and the number of Integration Services required to be installed.

While you can utilize the V2 service by installing it on each individual machine, the main benefit of the Advance Integration Service (V2) is to allow a single setup that is responsible for all interactions between Transaction Manager and your ERP to reduce the complexity of your setup, and need for maintenance to keep your EDI process running smoothly.

rev 8/29/2023