System-to-System Developer’s Guide
Revision: 3.1
Date: December 16, 2003
PURPOSE
This document describes the extension of the smbXML (small and medium business eXtensible Markup
Language) integration functionality to support the bi-directional exchange of business data between NetSuite
products and third-party systems.
smbXML was developed to facilitate the exchange of business information between trusted, third-party, XML-
enabled, business applications and the NetSuite product family. smbXML was originally implemented as a user
initiated exchange of XML data via flat-file export and import. This was performed by selecting the file to import
through the standard NetSuite web-browser interface, and is referred to as smbXML UI Import.
System-to-System (s2s) integration enables trusted systems to add, update and query data in an integrated
NetSuite account in real-time, or in batch, without user intervention. Most often this is done in real-time, in
response to an event occurring in the integrated third-party system (e.g.: a purchase being made in a third-party
e-commerce application, that sends transaction, customer and item information to the NetSuite product regarding
the sale).
System-to-System integration supports the same records and actions as the smbXML UI Import capability,
available in the standard user interface.
