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What Do You Value Most in an Integration? Let's Chat!

  • September 3, 2024
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sylvia.tang
Mews Employee

Hello Community!

We’d love to hear your thoughts on integrations and APIs (this can include experiences beyond just Mews-related integrations):

  • What do you value most in an integration?
  • What makes a great connection?
  • What frustrates you? Have you had any negative experiences?
  • What’s something no one is doing that you wish they would?

Feel free to share your insights directly in the comments. If you'd be open to a more in-depth conversation, comment with your property name and our API team would be more than happy to chat with you directly. Your feedback could help shape future improvements!

marketa.oupicka
jones.eth

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j.spiess
Superstar Guru
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  • j.spiess
  • Superstar Guru
  • September 14, 2024

It’s frustrating that the local printers connected to the connector count towards the number of integrations allowed in the subscribtion. We allready hit the limt …

More integrations allowed would be great :-)

Yours,

JP.

jones.eth
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  • jones.eth
  • Senior Guru
  • September 16, 2024

As user i really like robust and gracefully handled API errors. Often times there is some kind of lazy error handling that causes problems and confusion on what the problem really is. Especially with integrations often times one provider pushes the blame onto the other when something doesn’t work as expected and as end user you are pretty much helpless then.

As developer i like good documented fast APIs. On that regard Mews is pretty nice … what i don’t like is the way customer searches work with mews API. Also i have mixed feelings about the Mews API demo enviroment.

mauritsbots
Superstar Guru
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  • mauritsbots
  • Superstar Guru
  • September 16, 2024

I guess, for all integrations, the most value that it brings is efficiency and speed. If the integration does not improve the speed of a workflow, or help the efficiency in any way.. then get rid of it :)

obviously, with all integrations, it is key to test. great to have that option in the marketplace, however sometimes having just 30 days is too short. Ideally the suppliers are forced to have a working demo environment, or at least a video explainer of the integration.

 

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Roy
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  • Roy
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  • September 16, 2024

I agree with @mauritsbots. Having a working demo environment for every integration would be great. We have integration partners that are referred back to the general integration demo environment while testing case specific in our own demo's would be better.

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j.spiess
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  • j.spiess
  • Superstar Guru
  • September 16, 2024

I agree with @mauritsbots. Having a working demo environment for every integration would be great. We have integration partners that are referred back to the general integration demo environment while testing case specific in our own demo's would be better.

Hello!

Yes, I think so too! In general the demo environment would be more usefull if it was possible to “clone” a live environment (and start over from scratch any time again by a new clone).

For read only testing it would be great to have a “read-only” access to a live environemnt.

As far as I have seen, the provided demo environemtes for testing contain only very limited data sets, not covering edge cases or the secifics of a live environment.

Also for custom integrations only for in-house software it would we great to access, at least read-only, the live environment, no matter what subscribtion tier you are on, and without a certification - after all if it’s read only, nothing can happen, so it should be up to the property IT to connect to the live-environment API without any artificial and unnecessarty hurdles.

Regards,

Jean-Philipp.

Roy
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