EDI & Files
SFTP Connector integration
Secure file transfer integration.
How we integrate SFTP Connector
The integration shape.
SFTP is not a platform but a protocol, and it is the lowest-common-denominator integration surface for trading partners, ERPs and warehouses that pre-date REST APIs. A surprising amount of operational integration traffic still moves over SFTP.
Patchworks's SFTP connector handles file drops, scheduled polls, encryption and the partner-by-partner conventions every SFTP relationship accretes. The design work is in the file naming, the manifest discipline and the visibility a trading-partner programme needs around what landed when.
SFTP integrations are uncool and durable. We treat them with the same engineering rigour as anything else.
Questions
Common questions.
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01 How does Patchworks integrate SFTP Connector?
Patchworks's SFTP connector handles file drops, scheduled polls, encryption and the partner-by-partner conventions every SFTP relationship accretes. The design work is in the file naming, the manifest discipline and the visibility a trading-partner programme needs around what landed when. -
02 What's a typical SFTP Connector integration timeline?
Three to six weeks for a SFTP Connector integration with a defined schema. Reverse-engineering an undocumented file format extends scope, and we cost that explicitly. -
03 Do you support SFTP Connector integrations after they launch?
Yes. SFTP Connector integrations are supported under retainer with file-pickup monitoring, schema-validation alerting and on-call cover for the windows trading partners send data in. Missed drops alert before the next batch posts late. Tiered SLAs from £750 per month. -
04 Can you build a custom SFTP Connector connector or flow?
Yes. Custom SFTP Connector work covers schema parsing for the specific trading-partner format, dead-letter handling for malformed rows, encoding edge cases and the outbound counterpart where the same partner also expects files back.
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