Video tutorial

Watch this quick video to see the integration in action. It walks you through the end-to-end setup, including:

• Installing the SSIS PowerPack
• Configuring a secure connection to FastSpring
• Working with FastSpring data directly inside SSIS
• Exploring advanced API Source features

Once you are done watching, simply follow the step-by-step written guide below to configure your data source.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure the following prerequisites are met:

1. SSIS designer installed. Sometimes it is referred as BIDS or SSDT (download it from Microsoft).
2. Basic knowledge of SSIS package development using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
3. SSIS PowerPack is installed (if you are new to SSIS PowerPack, then get started!).

Create product in SSIS

1. Open Visual Studio and click Create a new project.

2. Select Integration Services Project. Enter a name and location for your project, then click OK.

3. From the SSIS Toolbox, drag and drop a Data Flow Task onto the Control Flow surface, and double-click it:

   

4. Make sure you are in the Data Flow Task designer:

   

5. Read the data from the source, using any desired source component. You can even make an API call using the ZappySys JSON/XML/API Source and read data from there. In this example, we will use an OLE DB Source component to read real-time data from a SQL Server database.

6. From the SSIS Toolbox drag and drop API Destination (Predefined Templates) on the Data Flow Designer surface and connect source component with it, and double click to edit it.
   

7. Select New Connection to create a new connection:
   

   API Destination - FastSpring

   Read and write FastSpring data effortlessly. Integrate, manage, and automate orders, subscriptions, quotes, products, and accounts — almost no coding required.

   

8. To configure the FastSpring connector, choose one of the following methods:

   • Choose from Popular Connector List: Select a pre-installed service directly from the dropdown menu.
   • Search Online: Use this to find and download a new connector file to your computer.
   • Use Saved/Downloaded File: Once the file is downloaded, browse your local drive to load it into the configuration.

   After that, just click Continue >>:

   FastSpring

   

9. Proceed with selecting the desired Authentication Type. Then select API Base URL (in most cases default one is the right one). Finally, fill in all the required parameters and set optional parameters if needed. You may press a link Steps to Configure which will help set certain parameters. More info is available in Authentication section.

   API Credentials

   FastSpring authentication

   Here is how to obtain FastSpring API credentials:

   1. In the FastSpring portal, navigate to Developer Tools > APIs > API Credentials.
   2. Click Create, FastSpring will automatically generate your Username and Password. Copy them, we will need them in the next step:
      WARNING: Securely store the credentials for future reference.
   3. Now go to SSIS package or ODBC data source and use this token in API Credentials authentication configuration:
      • In the UserName field paste the Username value you copied in the previous step.
      • In the Password field paste the Password value you copied in the previous step.
   4. Click Test Connection to confirm the connection is working.
   5. Done! Now you are ready to use FastSpring Connector!

   API Connection Manager configuration

   Just perform these simple steps to finish authentication configuration:

   1. Set Authentication Type to API Credentials [Http]
   2. Optional step. Modify API Base URL if needed (in most cases default will work).
   3. Fill in all the required parameters and set optional parameters if needed.
   4. Finally, hit OK button:

   FastSpring

   API Credentials [Http]

   https://api.fastspring.com

   Required Parameters
   UserName	Fill-in the parameter...
   Password	Fill-in the parameter...
   Optional Parameters
   RetryMode	RetryWhenStatusCodeMatch
   RetryStatusCodeList	429
   RetryCountMax	5
   RetryMultiplyWaitTime	True
   Your Webstore URL (Only used by get_products_visibility endpoint)	https://YOUR-STORE.onfastspring.com

   

   Find full details in the FastSpring Connector authentication reference.

10. Select Products table from the dropdown, then select Insert, Upsert as operation, and hit Preview Data:

    

    API Destination - FastSpring

    Read and write FastSpring data effortlessly. Integrate, manage, and automate orders, subscriptions, quotes, products, and accounts — almost no coding required.

    FastSpring

    Products

    Insert, Upsert

    There are no parameters to configure.

    

11. Finally, map the desired columns:

    API Destination - FastSpring

    Read and write FastSpring data effortlessly. Integrate, manage, and automate orders, subscriptions, quotes, products, and accounts — almost no coding required.

    

12. That's it; we successfully configured the POST API Call. In a few clicks we configured the FastSpring API call using ZappySys FastSpring Connector

    

Conclusion

And there you have it — a complete guide on how to create product in SSIS without writing complex code. All of this was powered by FastSpring Connector, which handled the REST API pagination and authentication for us automatically.

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More actions supported by FastSpring Connector

Got another use case in mind? We've documented the exact setups for a variety of essential FastSpring operations directly in SSIS, so you can skip the trial and error. Find your next step-by-step guide below:

• Get Account By Id
• Get Account Charges
• Get Account Charges by Id
• Get Account Orders (For a single account)
• Get Account Orders (For all accounts)
• Get Accounts
• Get Order by Id
• Get Order Items
• Get Order Items by OrderId
• Get Orders
• Get Product
• Get Product IDs
• Get Product Prices
• Get Products
• Get Products Publish Status
• Get Quote By Id
• Get Quotes
• Get Revenue Report
• Get Subscription By Id
• Get Subscription Report
• Get Subscriptions
• Get Subscriptions Ids
• Update Product
• Make Generic REST API Request
• Make Generic REST API Request (Bulk Write)

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