Orchid eBound™ API Documentation

Orchid eBound™ API Documentation The eBound integration API is used for connectivity between Orchid eBound™ and ERP or POS solutions. The API documentation can be downloaded through the link below, and contains the following information: API Overview ...

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API Documents eBound API

The eBound integration API is used for connectivity between Orchid eBound™ and ERP or POS solutions. The full integration guide can be downloaded below.

The guide covers:

API overview

  • Architecture and integrations
  • Interactive API documents and payloads
  • In-scope transactions — acquisitions, dispositions, manufacturing and adjustments
  • Approved ATF firearm types, and a note on FFL numbers
  • The API endpoint, for 4473 and core transactions
  • Frequency of data transmission
  • Active error detection — synchronous feedback
  • Passive error detection — the API Error Log

Endpoint review

  • Endpoint #1 — 4473 transactions
  • Endpoint #2 — core transactions
  • Synchronous API overview: method, format, transaction values and headers

Body content

Sample payloads and required fields, lengths and formats for each transaction:

  • Serialize
  • Receive
  • FFL Transfer
  • Exempt Transfer
  • Assemble
  • Disassemble
  • Destroy

Related documentation

Orchid eBound API - Responses — every response the Transaction API can return, including the pre-flight errors that reject a batch and the per-transaction messages that explain why a single transaction was rejected.