v1.0.0 to v1.0.0

---

name: sage-business-cloud-accounting

description: |

Sage Business Cloud Accounting integration via Apideck's Accounting unified API — same methods work across every connector in Accounting, switch by changing `serviceId`. Use when the user wants to read, write, or reconcile invoices, bills, payments, ledger accounts, and journal entries in Sage Business Cloud Accounting. Routes through Apideck with serviceId "sage-business-cloud-accounting".

license: Apache-2.0

alwaysApply: false

metadata:

author: apideck

version: "1.0.0"

serviceId: sage-business-cloud-accounting

unifiedApis: ["accounting"]

authType: oauth2

tier: "1a"

verified: true

status: beta

difficulty: moderate

partnershipRequired: false

sandboxAvailable: true

---

# Sage Business Cloud Accounting (via Apideck)

Access Sage Business Cloud Accounting through Apideck's **Accounting** unified API — one of 34 Accounting connectors that share the same method surface. Code you write here ports to Access Financials, Acumatica, banqUP and 30 other Accounting connectors by changing a single `serviceId` string. Apideck handles auth, pagination, rate limiting, and retries so you don't write per-tenant Sage Business Cloud Accounting plumbing.

> **Beta connector.** Sage Business Cloud Accounting is currently in beta on Apideck. Expect partial resource coverage and occasional mapping gaps. Always verify coverage (see below) and fall back to the Proxy API for unsupported operations.

## Quick facts

- **Apideck serviceId:** `sage-business-cloud-accounting`

- **Unified API:** Accounting

- **Auth type:** oauth2

- **Status:** beta

- **Gotchas:** [page](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/accounting/sage-business-cloud-accounting/gotchas)

- **Sage Business Cloud Accounting docs:** https://developer.sage.com/accounting/

- **Homepage:** https://www.sage.com/en-za/sage-business-cloud/accounting/

## At a glance

- **Implementation difficulty:** moderate — Self-Service OAuth Signup + Manual Sage Account Authorization Required for Production

- **Vendor partnership required:** no ([Sage Partner Central](https://partnercentral.sage.com/prm/English/s/applicant)) — Trial businesses and API access need no enrollment; Sage Partner Central adds a Sage Marketplace listing for your integration.

- **Account type required:** Active Sage Business Cloud Accounting subscription in Canada, the United Kingdom or Ireland.

- **Consumer access level:** Sage account holder, or any user with permission to authorise applications.

- **Sandbox:** available ([signup](https://developer.sage.com/accounting/docs/v1.0.0/guides/quick-start/getting-started)) — Free trial Accounting business created from the Sage Developer Portal, extendable for longer testing.

- **Costs:** Free — Sage charges nothing for API access or developer registration. Your consumers pay for their own Sage Accounting subscription.

- **Rate limits:** 1,296,000 requests per app per day; 150 concurrent requests maximum per app. Exceeding either returns HTTP 429.

- **Authentication:** Authorization Code flow.

- **Webhooks:** No webhooks — Sage Accounting exposes none, native or virtual; sync by polling the unified API.

**Important to know:**

- The connector's country setting lists seven options, but only Sage Accounting's three supported countries authenticate — choosing France, Germany, Spain or the United States fails at authorization.

- Every connection needs a Default Company selected before it can be used, even when the consumer's Sage login can reach only one business — the connection stays incomplete until it is set.

- Refresh tokens expire after 31 days and rotate on every use, so a consumer whose integration sits unused for over a month has to re-authorise.

- Feature and endpoint availability depends on your consumer's Sage subscription tier, so a workflow that succeeds for one consumer can fail for another on a cheaper plan.

> Facts synced from Apideck's connector metadata API — `GET /connector/connectors/sage-business-cloud-accounting` (`overview` field) is the live, authoritative version.

## When to use this skill

Activate this skill when the user explicitly wants to work with **Sage Business Cloud Accounting** — for example, "create an invoice in Sage Business Cloud Accounting" or "reconcile payments in Sage Business Cloud Accounting". This skill teaches the agent:

1. Which Apideck unified API covers Sage Business Cloud Accounting (Accounting)

2. The correct `serviceId` to pass on every call (`sage-business-cloud-accounting`)

3. Sage Business Cloud Accounting-specific auth and coverage caveats

For the full method surface (parameters, pagination, filtering), use your language SDK skill:

- [`apideck-node`](../../skills/apideck-node/), [`apideck-python`](../../skills/apideck-python/), [`apideck-dotnet`](../../skills/apideck-dotnet/), [`apideck-java`](../../skills/apideck-java/), [`apideck-go`](../../skills/apideck-go/), [`apideck-php`](../../skills/apideck-php/), or [`apideck-rest`](../../skills/apideck-rest/)

For the raw OpenAPI spec:

- **Accounting:** [https://specs.apideck.com/accounting.yml](https://specs.apideck.com/accounting.yml) · [API Explorer](https://developers.apideck.com/api-explorer?id=accounting)

## Minimal example (TypeScript)

```typescript

import { Apideck } from "@apideck/unify";

const apideck = new Apideck({

apiKey: process.env.APIDECK_API_KEY,

appId: process.env.APIDECK_APP_ID,

consumerId: "your-consumer-id",

});

// List invoices in Sage Business Cloud Accounting

const { data } = await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({

serviceId: "sage-business-cloud-accounting",

});

```

## Portable across 34 Accounting connectors

The Apideck **Accounting** unified API exposes the same methods for every connector in its catalog. Switching from Sage Business Cloud Accounting to another Accounting connector is a one-string change — no rewrite, no new SDK.

```typescript

// Today — Sage Business Cloud Accounting

await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({ serviceId: "sage-business-cloud-accounting" });

// Tomorrow — same code, different connector

await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({ serviceId: "access-financials" });

await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({ serviceId: "acumatica" });

```

This is the compounding advantage of using Apideck over integrating Sage Business Cloud Accounting directly: code against the unified Accounting API once, gain access to every connector in it. New connectors Apideck adds become available to your app without code changes.

## Sage Business Cloud Accounting via Apideck

Sage Business Cloud Accounting (formerly Sage One) is Sage's cloud SMB accounting product, distinct from Sage Intacct (mid-market) and Sage 50 (desktop). Popular in UK, Ireland, and other English-speaking markets.

### Entity mapping

| Sage entity | Apideck Accounting resource |

|---|---|

| Sales Invoice | `invoices` |

| Purchase Invoice | `bills` |

| Credit Note | `credit-notes` |

| Contact Payment | `payments` |

| Bill Payment | `bill-payments` |

| Journal | `journal-entries` |

| Ledger Account | `ledger-accounts` |

| Contact (Customer) | `customers` |

| Contact (Supplier) | `suppliers` |

| Item / Product | `invoice-items` |

| Tax Rate | `tax-rates` |

| Bank Account | `bank-accounts` |

| Business | `subsidiaries` |

| Attachment | `attachments` |

| Expense | `expenses` |

| Company | `companies` |

| P&L, Balance Sheet | `profit-and-loss`, `balance-sheet` |

### Coverage highlights

- ✅ Full CRUD on invoices, bills, payments, customers, suppliers

- ✅ Journal entries

- ✅ Financial reports (P&L, Balance Sheet)

- ✅ Multi-business (Sage's term for multi-tenant access within one account)

- ✅ Attachments on invoices / bills

- ⚠️ VAT returns / MTD submission — use Proxy with Sage's dedicated MTD endpoints

- ❌ Payroll — Sage Payroll is separate

- ❌ Stock/inventory — Sage 50 territory

### Auth notes

- **Type:** OAuth 2.0, managed by Apideck Vault

- **Business binding:** each connection = one Sage business. Users may have access to multiple businesses from one account; Apideck binds to the selected one at OAuth time.

- **Region:** Sage Business Cloud has UK, US, DE, FR, ES, IE, CA variants. Choose the right regional variant or ensure the user selects correctly during OAuth.

- **Name collision:** do not confuse with Sage Intacct — different product, different connector.

### Example: list invoices for a specific customer

```typescript

const { data } = await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({

serviceId: "sage-business-cloud-accounting",

filter: { customer_id: "contact_123" },

});

```

## Escape hatch: Proxy API

When an endpoint isn't covered by the Accounting unified API, use Apideck's Proxy to call Sage Business Cloud Accounting directly — Apideck injects auth headers and handles token refresh. Set `x-apideck-downstream-url` to the target endpoint on Sage Business Cloud Accounting's own API:

```bash

curl 'https://unify.apideck.com/proxy' \

-H "Authorization: Bearer ${APIDECK_API_KEY}" \

-H "x-apideck-app-id: ${APIDECK_APP_ID}" \

-H "x-apideck-consumer-id: ${CONSUMER_ID}" \

-H "x-apideck-service-id: sage-business-cloud-accounting" \

-H "x-apideck-downstream-url: <target endpoint on Sage Business Cloud Accounting>" \

-H "x-apideck-downstream-method: GET"

```

See [Sage Business Cloud Accounting's API docs](https://developer.sage.com/accounting/) for available endpoints.

## Sibling connectors

Other **Accounting** connectors that share this unified API surface (same method signatures, just change `serviceId`):

[`access-financials`](../access-financials/) *(beta)*, [`acumatica`](../acumatica/) *(beta)*, [`banqup`](../banqup/) *(beta)*, [`campfire`](../campfire/) *(beta)*, [`clearbooks-uk`](../clearbooks-uk/) *(beta)*, [`digits`](../digits/) *(beta)*, [`dualentry`](../dualentry/), [`exact-online`](../exact-online/), and 25 more.

## See also

- [Accounting OpenAPI spec](https://specs.apideck.com/accounting.yml) · [API Explorer](https://developers.apideck.com/api-explorer?id=accounting)

- [`apideck-connector-coverage`](../../skills/apideck-connector-coverage/) — programmatic coverage checks

- [`apideck-best-practices`](../../skills/apideck-best-practices/) — architecture, Vault, pagination, error handling

- [`apideck-node`](../../skills/apideck-node/) — TypeScript / Node SDK patterns

- [Sage Business Cloud Accounting official docs](https://developer.sage.com/accounting/)