Integrator for Cegid
Integrating the Cegid API into your system
We wire Cegid Loop into your payroll, bank or business software: the product event pushes the entry, the firm stays the system of record. Note: Loop (firm) is not XRP Flex (ERP).
- Senior product team
- accounting connectors in production
- from scoping to monitoring
Why work with a Cegid integrator and why wire Loop into your platform?
Cegid covers accounting firms (Loop), payroll (Cegid HR), business management (XRP Flex) and accounting advisory. Each product has its own channel. You integrate Loop so your platform (payroll, bank, expenses, business software) pushes ledger entries with no manual TRA and no parallel spreadsheet. Loop stays the firm's system of record; XRP Flex is a different ERP project. Access is arranged with the firm (CegidLife / LoopHub), not by the SME alone.
What Cegid Loop changes in your platform
Payroll journal leaves the product, no manual TRA
PayFit, Silae or an in-house tool push the JSON import from your system. The firm follows accountingImportRequestId, no more file pasted by hand.
Bank and expenses land in Loop
Entries and attachments reach Loop from your platform. Matching stays the firm's, not a day-15 FEC export.
Credit note or correction that reverses from the product
A refund or correction journal triggered in the product creates the reverse entry. Support and the firm share the same event.
Client portal and balances from the same system
A portal shows balances from Loop, through the firm that opens access. This is not an XRP connector installed at the SME alone.
What it changes in your product
Engineering in service of a measurable outcome: business event into Loop, followed import, access opened by the right firm.
The right Cegid product from the quote
Loop (accounting firm) is not XRP Flex (ERP), nor Cegid HR (payroll). We name the product line before estimating. You buy the right connector, without a scope surprise.
The firm opens access, the product pushes
API access goes through the firm (CegidLife / LoopHub). Your platform then pushes entries; the SME alone does not trigger the flow.
You know when it is really in Loop
Import is followed through to the final status. We do not announce too early that it is booked. Failures (balance, account, dimension) surface in the product.
A replay does not double the entry
Each document carries a unique reference on the connector side. A payroll month resent after an outage does not write twice in Loop.
How we connect Cegid to your system
Scoping
Where Loop enters your product: payroll, bank, expenses, portal. Product (Loop, not XRP), firm, client-file code, P04448, who activates LoopHub. CegidLife delay in the plan.
Mapping
Journals, accounts, analytical dimensions, JSON / FEC / TRA format chosen with the accountant. This decides whether the product event posts correctly in Loop.
Development and testing
A connector wired into your business events. Dual APIM + x-apikey headers, import queue, status tracking, retry on unavailability. Testing on CEGIDPARTENAIRES.
Monitoring
Alert on failed import, body log without secrets, dashboard. You see the gap before it breaks close or support.
What Loop brings to your platform
- Read entries for product ops
- GET /EcritureComptable, filters codeDossier, journal, date, account, matching, refPiece, skip/take. Enough to feed a reconciliation tool in your system, not a stale FEC.
- Push the journal from the product
- Async JSON import: entries, analytics, accounts, partners, journals, attachments, matching. Response: accountingImportRequestId to follow from the product.
- Replay FEC, TRA, CSV without parallel Excel
- Historical formats when the real-time flow is not there yet. Always triggered from your platform, with status tracking.
- Identify the client file from the connector
- codeIbs / file opened by the firm. Your system addresses the right Loop file, without confusing it with an XRP Flex connector.
The vocabulary of a Cegid integration
- Loop
- The cloud for accounting firms. The documented public API lives here. It is not the client company's ERP.
- CegidLife
- Where the firm's administrator generates the APIKey. P04448 Standard, free, shareable with a partner. P04454 Advanced, paid, reserved for the firm.
- LoopHub
- Where the public key is activated for the firm. Without that step, calls fail, even with a valid APIM subscription.
- accountingImportRequestId
- GUID returned by the async import. That is what you follow. A 201 with no status follow-up is not an entry in the books.
- codeIbs
- Loop client-file identifier, often complemented by the SIRET. Multi-company means as many codes, as many import contexts.
- XRP Flex
- Cegid cloud SME ERP, another product, another contract. No public technical reference (endpoints, auth, quotas) was read off-login. We scope it, we do not invent it.
The real constraints of a Cegid integration
Cegid names several products
Loop, XRP Flex, Cegid HR, Quadratus do not share an API. The first scoping question is the exact product name. Otherwise the estimate means nothing.
The key belongs to the firm
The CegidLife admin opens P04448 and LoopHub. A client SME does not trigger the API alone. Same pattern as Silae: the partner carries access.
P04454 is not for a third-party SaaS
The docs reserve Advanced for the practice. A vendor asking for it leaves the intended model. We stay on Standard P04448 for a partner.
Import is async, retry is mandatory
POST /importJson does not write at once. Cegid says some APIs may be unavailable: 5xx and retry are part of the contract, not an edge case.
Cegid Loop or Sage, and what it implies
The choice follows who holds the books in your platform. Loop is a practice tool. Sage 100 is often the company's own install.
| Criterion | CegidThis page | SageSMEs and Partner Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Who opens access | The firm, on CegidLife and LoopHub | The company, or its Sage partner |
| Channel documented here | Loop public APIs on APIM | Business objects, Active REST, X3 GraphQL |
| Authentication | APIM subscription + practice x-apikey | Cloud OAuth, or local Sage 100 access |
| Writing | Async import, GUID follow-up | Synchronous on Active / business objects, depending on the line |
| Real time | No documented Loop webhook | Depends on the line, not one standard |
| Integration effort | Medium, mostly contractual (the firm) | Medium to high, mostly the product line |
| The right case | Payroll or business software into a Loop file held by a firm | An SME that owns Sage and wants a durable connector |
We claim no Cegid partnership, no Loop practice credential and no XRP badge: we consume the documented Loop public APIs, with the client's accounting firm.
What we measure on a Cegid project
The other accounting tools we integrate
If Loop is not the core of your journal / firm-close journey, these options are worth discussing during scoping.
CegidIntegrating the Cegid API into your systemThis page
SageThe most common in SMEs. Several lines, from on-prem to a cloud API, to be scoped before the quote.
PennylaneA modern web API, company or firm token, simpler to plug in than a historic ERP.
EBPFrench SME, SaaS REST or desktop SDK. The Early Adopters quota is sized at scoping.We combine Cegid with
The stack around Cegid Loop when we wire it into payroll or business software.
Cegid integration: your questions
We wire it into your product touchpoints: payroll, bank, expenses, portal. Three doors before the code: the product (Loop, not XRP), the firm that generates the CegidLife APIKey, and the Cegid APIM subscription. Then both headers, async import, follow accountingImportRequestId, retry on unavailability. The real difficulty is not the POST; it is firm access and journal mapping.
To roll out Loop or XRP and train a firm, a Cegid partner makes sense. To wire Loop into payroll or business software, what counts is accounting-connector experience, rigour on async import and the ability to work with the firm. We claim no Cegid partnership, no Loop practice credential and no XRP badge: we consume the documented Loop public APIs, with the client's accounting firm.
It depends on the product, the number of client files and the import format. A monthly payroll journal into one Loop file costs far less than a bank chain plus attachments plus a balances portal. CegidLife delay and the firm's availability weigh as much as the engineering. We scope the perimeter up front and give a firm estimate, once the product line is named.
Yes, and it is the most requested case. The connector collects the journal after close, checks the balance, sets an idempotence key, then POST /importJson and follows the status. Mapping (payroll journal, accounts, dimensions) is signed off with the accountant before the first live month. Silae has its own access process: both access files start on day one, in parallel with development.
No. Loop is the practice cloud. XRP Flex is an SME ERP. The product site mentions APIs for CRM, e-commerce and BI, but no public technical reference (endpoints, auth, quotas) was read off-login on developers.cegid.com. An XRP project starts with product scoping on the portal, not with an invented OpenAPI. Cegid HR is yet another contract.
A Cegid integration project?
Let's talk. 30 minutes to scope where Loop enters your platform (payroll, bank, business software), name the product line and identify the firm.
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