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CIN7 Core: Set up and maintain the integration

Hector Williamson avatar
Written by Hector Williamson
Updated over 10 months ago

If you run your business with CIN7 Core ERP (formerly known as DEAR Systems) we can integrate with your system!

Why integrate with ChemCloud?

An ERP integration can save you time in a number of ways

  • We can quickly upload all of your Approved Materials, and sync them with your Approved Materials on ChemCloud

  • You can 'Generate a PO' directly from ChemCloud - this will open up a draft PO in your CIN7 Core system.

How to set up the integration (it takes 2 minutes)

Video demo of how to set up the integration

Step 1. Add CIN7 API

Go to the integrations tab and search for 'api'. Select CIN7 Core API.

Note: You may need to add this to your subscription.

Step 2. Click the + button

Click the + button to add a new API connect.

You can name this connection ChemCloud API Connection.

Step 3. Copy the API key for the connection

Simply copy this secret API key.

Step 4. Enter the API key in the Integration section of your ChemCloud Settings

Go to Profile Integrations page in ChemCloud, add your integration and enter the Account ID and API key in the field.

That's it! We can now integrate with your CIN7 Core ERP system.

How to manually link something in ChemCloud to Cin7

CIN7 uses UUIDs to talk to other systems. What is a UUID?

In the back end, CIN7 uses Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) to represent entities like Products, Suppliers, Orders and Stock Incoming. UUIDs are 36 character alphanumeric strings that look like this: 88b4597a-a118-4959-b414-6d1c0526f340

For example, you might have a product with the following details:

  • Code: 1234

  • Product Name: Surfactant LA8

But behind the scenes CIN7 uses a UUID to relay information about this product to other systems (like ChemCloud).

How do I get the UUID?

You can access the UUID of any Product, Supplier, Order or Stock Incoming by going to the page for that object, and copying the UUID from the URL:

The url for the page will look something like this:

  • For a Product: https://inventory.dearsystems.com/Product#88b4597a-a118-4959-b414-6d1c0526f340

  • For an Order: https://inventory.dearsystems.com/PurchaseAdvanced#4e996f75-da5c-4034-919e-9bd2d41b85b7

  • For a Supplier: https://inventory.dearsystems.com/Supplier#df6c0472-3592-41a0-b2a1-324cc94ca5ce

Copy the UUID which is all the characters after the # sign in the url.

Where do I put the UUID?

You can manually link a product in ChemCloud to a Product in CIN7 by pasting the UUID into this field below.

If you want to link an order or supplier, please send the UUID to your ChemCloud account manager, and they can do it in the backend for you.

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