Tipalti API
Tipalti is an AI-powered finance automation platform that runs global accounts payable, mass payments, procurement, expenses, and treasury for scaling businesses across 200+ countries. An API lets you programmatically pull payees, invoices, bills, payment orders, and payment status—and push updates like supplier onboarding, bill approvals, and payout batches back into Tipalti.
What is Tipalti?
Tipalti is an AI-powered finance automation platform that simplifies global accounts payable, payments, procurement, expenses, and treasury operations. Finance teams use Tipalti to onboard suppliers, collect tax and compliance documentation, capture and approve invoices, and run mass payouts to 200+ countries in 120 currencies via 50+ payment methods—then reconcile everything back into their ERP and accounting systems through its Connected Suite.
Core product areas include:
- Accounts Payable Automation (invoice capture, approval workflows, GL coding)
- Mass Payments and the global Payout API (batch payouts across currencies and methods)
- Procurement (purchase requests, POs, and spend controls)
- Expense Management and Tipalti Cards
- Treasury Management and supplier/payee onboarding with tax and KYC compliance
Common data entities:
- Payees/Suppliers, Onboarding Status, Tax Forms (W-9/W-8), KYC records
- Invoices, Bills, Approval Workflows, GL Accounts, Custom Fields
- Payments, Payment Orders, Payment Batches, Payment Methods, Currencies
- Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, Payment Terms, Tax Codes
The Tipalti Integration Challenge
Finance teams run mission-critical payables and payout workloads on Tipalti daily, but turning those workflows into reliable API-driven automation is non-trivial:
- Split REST/SOAP surface: Tipalti exposes newer REST APIs alongside legacy SOAP APIs and an iFrame SDK, so coverage and object shapes differ by module and version
- OAuth and API-key management: Credentials, scopes, and sandbox-versus-production environments must be provisioned and rotated carefully for headless automation
- Onboarding and compliance gates: Payee tax forms (W-9/W-8), KYC, and payment-method validation block payouts until cleared, complicating straight-through processing
- Multi-currency, multi-entity complexity: Payouts span 200+ countries, 120 currencies, and 50+ payment methods, each with its own validation and reconciliation rules
- Webhook and IPN handling: Payment-status, payee-detail, and deposit events arrive via webhooks or the IPN messaging service, each needing retry-safe consumption
- ERP reconciliation: Keeping invoices, payments, and GL coding consistent across NetSuite, Sage, Dynamics, SAP, QuickBooks, and Xero requires precise field mapping
How Supergood Creates Tipalti APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated sessions and Tipalti's REST, SOAP, and webhook surfaces to deliver a single, resilient API layer for your Tipalti account—across accounts payable, mass payments, procurement, and expenses.
- Handles OAuth, API keys, and MFA-protected logins securely in a managed session
- Maintains session continuity with automated token refresh and change detection
- Normalizes payees, invoices, payments, and payment orders across REST and SOAP so you integrate once against consistent objects
- Aligns with your onboarding, tax-compliance, and approval rules to ensure compliant payouts
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Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your Tipalti modules, payout footprint, and authentication model.
- Supergood Generates and Validates Your API
We deliver a production-ready Tipalti adapter tailored to your account configuration, entities, and compliance rules.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as Tipalti's APIs evolve.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/authenticateAuthenticate to a Tipalti account using OAuth or API keys and obtain a session token for downstream calls.
Payees
/payeesList payees and suppliers with onboarding status, tax-form state, KYC status, and payment-method details.
Payees
/create_payeeOnboard a new payee and trigger tax (W-9/W-8) and KYC collection workflows.
Invoices
/invoicesRetrieve invoices and bills with filters for status, approval stage, payee, and GL coding.
Invoices
/create_invoiceSubmit a new bill or invoice for approval with line items, GL accounts, and custom fields.
Payments
/create_paymentCreate payment orders and submit payout batches across currencies and payment methods.
Use Cases
Automate supplier onboarding and compliance
- Push new payees into Tipalti and trigger W-9/W-8 tax and KYC collection - Track onboarding and payment-method validation status in real time - Sync cleared, payable suppliers back to your ERP and vendor master
Sync accounts payable and bill approvals
- Push captured invoices and bills into Tipalti approval workflows - Pull approval status, GL coding, and custom-field data into your finance stack - Reconcile invoice-to-payment activity against NetSuite, Sage, or QuickBooks
Run and reconcile global mass payouts
- Submit payment orders and batch payouts across 120 currencies and 50+ methods - Stream payment-status and deposit-confirmation events to downstream systems - Auto-code and record settled payments back into your accounting system
Centralize spend and expense data
- Pull procurement requests, POs, and Tipalti Card transactions into one warehouse - Surface pending approvals and budget exceptions to spend-control workflows - Reconcile expense and card activity against GL accounts and payment terms
Technical Specifications
Authentication
OAuth and API keys, plus MFA-protected logins, handled in a managed session
Connectivity
Tipalti REST and legacy SOAP APIs plus authenticated session flows, surfaced through one normalized layer
Response format
Normalized JSON across Payee, Invoice, Payment, and Payment Order objects
Rate limits
Adaptive throttling tuned to Tipalti's documented limits to avoid account-side errors
Session management
Automatic token refresh, credential rotation, and sandbox-versus-production routing
Data freshness
Near real-time pulls for payees, invoices, and payments with optional scheduled batch syncs
Security
Encrypted credential vault, scoped access tokens, SOC 2-aligned controls, and audit logging
Webhooks
Event-style callbacks plus IPN consumption for payment status, payee details, and deposit confirmations
Latency
Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting bills and payout batches
Throughput
Horizontally scaled workers sized to high-volume payee and mass-payment workloads
Reliability
Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for invoice submission and payment-order creation
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring of Tipalti REST/SOAP releases, webhook events, and account configuration drift
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Supergood normalizes across Tipalti's newer REST APIs, the legacy SOAP APIs, and authenticated session flows, so you integrate once against consistent payee, invoice, and payment objects regardless of which underlying surface a given operation uses.
Yes. The API can create payees and trigger W-9/W-8 tax-form and KYC collection, then report onboarding and payment-method validation status so you only attempt payouts to cleared, payable suppliers.
Supergood exposes payment-order and batch payout creation across Tipalti's 200+ countries, 120 currencies, and 50+ payment methods, then streams payment-status and deposit-confirmation events back via webhooks or IPN for reconciliation.
Yes. Tipalti provides a dedicated sandbox environment, and Supergood routes credentials and calls to sandbox or production explicitly so you can validate integrations before deploying to live payouts.
Yes. Tipalti connects to NetSuite, Sage, Dynamics, SAP, QuickBooks, and Xero. Supergood normalizes invoice, payment, and GL-coding data so you can keep your accounting system reconciled with what settled in Tipalti.