Sage Intacct API
Sage Intacct runs two parallel APIs: a modern REST surface with OAuth 2.0 and an older XML API that still covers more objects. Each customer must authorize your Sender ID manually, and the base plan caps API usage at 100,000 transactions a month with paid overage.
Frequently asked questions
Sage Intacct scores D+ on the API Report Card. Sage Intacct runs two parallel APIs: a modern REST surface with OAuth 2.0 and an older XML API that still covers more objects. Each customer must authorize your Sender ID manually, and the base plan caps API usage at 100,000 transactions a month with paid overage.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Sage Intacct is the cloud-native financial management and ERP platform sold by The Sage Group plc.
Vertical: Financial Services / Accounting (cloud financial management & mid-market ERP). Multi-entity, multi-dimensional general ledger (Location, Department, Project, Customer, Vendor, Item, Class, Employee). AR, AP, cash management, order management, purchasing.
High within the mid-market cloud GL category. Sage Intacct has 22,000+ customers, 3,000+ G2 reviews at ~4.3/5, 440+ Capterra reviews at ~4.2/5, and is the AICPA's preferred financial management solution.
Yes, for any organization on Intacct, this is the financial system of record.
Intacct was founded in 1999 as one of the original cloud accounting platforms, acquired by The Sage Group plc in 2017 for $850M, and is Sage's flagship cloud product.
Performance Tier model, default Tier 1 caps usage at 100,000 transactions/month with overage billed at ~$0.15 per 10-transaction pack; every query, readByQuery, create, update, delete counts as one transaction. GW-0010 / HTTP 429 throttling fires aggressively under bulk loads; consumers must implement exponential backoff and request queuing. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Acumatica, Workday Financial Management, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Xero. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.