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Aria Crescendo Developer’s Guide
Aria Crescendo Developer’s Guide
Table of contents
Overview
Aria provides a comprehensive suite of APIs that allow you to create and manage accounts for your customers. In summary, you can also use Aria APIs to:
- perform configuration and billing tasks;
- query accounts;
- manage your product catalog and marketing activities; and
- extract product catalog or marketing information.
Getting Started
To successfully call Aria APIs, complete these prerequisite steps:
- Find the categories of APIs, supported formats for calling APIs, and endpoint URLs in the Aria Crescendo APIs overview;
- Learn how to form JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) API Calls;
- Download Aria's Swagger file to generate an SDK (software development kit);
- Download the Aria API WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) files for the current version of Aria;
- Obtain your client number and authorization key;
- Whitelist your IP addresses;
- Upload your two-way SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates;
- If you are using Aria with Salesforce, set up your Aria API configuration in Salesforce.
API Reference and Execution
Access detailed Aria API documentation then test and track your API calls using these resources:
- Find detailed information about API functionality and fields in the API documentation;
- Test your API calls with API Live;
- Find out why your API calls resulted in errors by checking the list of Aria Crescendo API Error Messages;
- Track your API call history.
Use Cases
You can use Aria APIs to complete various tasks such as account registration and user self-service activities among others listed here:
- Account Registration Best Practices;
- User Self-Service Best Practices;
- Assign master plan and supplemental plans at the same time using the update_acct_plan_multi_m API;
- Event Notification Best Practices;
- Load batches of data into Aria.
Direct Post
If you need to use Direct Post with your account registration or user self-service applications, refer to this information about using APIs with Direct Post:
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