Facebook integration specialists

Facebook API integration and platform bridging

Getting Facebook to talk to the rest of your systems means keeping lead capture, campaign attribution and audience sync correct on both sides, automatically. That is the integration work we do.

Fixed-scope engagements, delivered by UK-based integration engineers. Documentation and source code handed over on completion.

  • Graph API
  • Commerce catalogue
  • Ads & order sync

What we can connect Facebook to

Facebook holds product listings, ad and shopping data, and orders. Every other system in the business holds a partial copy of the same data. Our role is to make one the source of truth and keep the rest aligned — through the Facebook API, webhooks where they exist, and a bridging layer where the other system has no usable interface of its own.

Ecommerce platforms

Publish an accurate product and price feed from your storefront to Facebook, and pull channel orders back into one order book.

Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce

ERP and stock control

Feed Facebook from a single stock master with per-channel buffers so listings are not left live when stock runs out.

NetSuite, Dynamics 365, Linnworks, Cin7

PIM and content

Keep titles, attributes, images and categorisation for Facebook aligned with your product information source, with channel-specific mapping.

Akeneo, Plytix, in-house PIM

Accounting and finance

Post Facebook payouts, fees and refunds into the ledger so the channel reconciles cleanly against the bank.

Sage, Xero, QuickBooks

Warehouse and fulfilment

Route Facebook orders to the 3PL or WMS and return valid tracking within the channel's despatch window.

Mintsoft, Peoplevox, in-house WMS

Analytics and reporting

Bring Facebook spend, conversion and order data into a warehouse or BI tool alongside every other channel.

BigQuery, Looker Studio, Power BI

Common Facebook integration use cases

Each is a defined, testable data flow rather than an open-ended development project.

01

Product feed automation

A validated product and price feed is generated for Facebook from your system of record and refreshed on change, not on a manual export.

Outcome: fewer disapprovals, no stale prices.

02

Stock-aware listings

Availability on Facebook follows a single stock master with a per-channel buffer so fast movers are not oversold.

Outcome: listings pause and resume automatically.

03

Order ingestion

Facebook orders are created in the ERP or OMS with address, tax and channel fees normalised, allocated in payment order.

Outcome: one fulfilment queue across channels.

04

Despatch and tracking round trip

Fulfilment and valid tracking are written back to Facebook inside the required window, automatically.

Outcome: channel performance metrics stay within threshold.

05

Settlement and fee posting

Facebook payouts are posted to the ledger with advertising cost, commission and refunds separated.

Outcome: channel P&L visible monthly.

06

Catalogue and taxonomy mapping

Your categories and attributes are mapped once to the Facebook taxonomy and maintained as the catalogue changes.

Outcome: listings placed in the right place without rework.

How a Facebook API integration is delivered

Four stages, fixed scope agreed before any code is written. Typical delivery for a single-system integration is two to four weeks.

Stage one

Discovery and data mapping

We document the systems involved, the direction of each flow, and every field that must move — including the awkward ones such as tax, discounts and multi-currency.

Output: written integration specification.

Stage two

Fixed scope and estimate

The specification becomes a fixed-price proposal with a delivery schedule and defined acceptance criteria. No time-and-materials open ends.

Output: costed scope for sign-off.

Stage three

Build and testing

Development against a Facebook development or sandbox environment and a sandbox of the destination system, with your own data used for acceptance testing.

Output: tested integration and test evidence.

Stage four

Go-live and handover

Controlled cutover with monitoring in place, followed by handover of code, credentials and documentation, and a period of hypercare support.

Output: live integration, owned by you.

Have a Facebook data flow in mind? We will tell you what it takes before you commit.

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Facebook API bridging when there is no direct connector

The hard part is rarely Facebook itself. It is making sure the system on the other end of the wire — often older, undocumented, or maintained by someone who has since left — still gets what it needs, in the shape it expects.

In practice that means a queue that absorbs traffic spikes, retries failed calls against Facebook's Meta Commerce & Marketing API (Graph API) limits, and a log of every transaction so a disputed record can be traced end to end. When Facebook changes its API, only the bridge needs updating — not every downstream system.

If there is no usable interface at all, the fallback is a flat-file exchange, a direct database connection, or a small REST wrapper we write and host ourselves — whichever fits what is actually there.

Included in every bridge we build

  • Error handling with alerting when a transfer fails
  • Automatic retries that respect the platform API rate limits
  • A transaction log for tracing any individual record
  • Idempotency so a repeated event cannot create a duplicate
  • Field-level mapping documentation you can hand to any developer
  • A staging environment that mirrors production

Facebook integration FAQs

A single-direction integration between Facebook and one business system is typically delivered in two to four weeks, including discovery, field-level mapping, build against a sandbox, acceptance testing with your own data and supported go-live. Multi-system programmes are phased.

Other platforms we integrate

Each platform has its own integration guide covering authentication, available endpoints and typical data flows.

Discuss your integration

Call 01303 883111 or email hello@api-integrations.co.uk. We will tell you honestly whether an integration is the right answer to the problem you have described.