How to Create Product — FastSpring Connector for SSIS

Prerequisites

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

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

Create Product in SSIS

Begin with opening Visual Studio and Create a New Project.
Select Integration Service Project and in new project window set the appropriate name and location for project. And click OK.

In the new SSIS project screen you will find the following:
- SSIS ToolBox on left side bar
- Solution Explorer and Property Window on right bar
- Control flow, data flow, event Handlers, Package Explorer in tab windows
- Connection Manager Window in the bottom
Note: If you don't see ZappySys SSIS PowerPack Task or Components in SSIS Toolbox, please refer to this help link.
Now, Drag and Drop SSIS Data Flow Task from SSIS Toolbox. Double click on the Data Flow Task to see Data Flow designer.
Read the data from the source, being any desired source component. In example we will use ZappySys Dummy Data Source component.
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.
Select New Connection to create a new connection:

API Destination - FastSpring

Read / write FastSpring data related to Orders, Subscriptions, Quotes, Products, Accounts and more without coding.
Use a preinstalled FastSpring Connector from Popular Connector List or press Search Online radio button to download FastSpring Connector. Once downloaded simply use it in the configuration:

FastSpring

Now it's time to configure authentication. Firstly, configure authentication settings in FastSpring service and then proceed by configuring API Connection Manager. Start by expanding an authentication type:

API Credentials

FastSpring authentication

Here is how to obtain FastSpring API credentials:

In the FastSpring portal, navigate to Developer Tools > APIs > API Credentials.
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.
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.
Click Test Connection to confirm the connection is working.
Done! Now you are ready to use FastSpring Connector!

API Connection Manager configuration

Just perform these simple steps to finish authentication configuration:

Set Authentication Type to API Credentials [Http]
Optional step. Modify API Base URL if needed (in most cases default will work).
Fill in all the required parameters and set optional parameters if needed.
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

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

API Destination - FastSpring

Read / write FastSpring data related to Orders, Subscriptions, Quotes, Products, Accounts and more without coding.

FastSpring

Products

Insert, Upsert

There are no parameters to configure.
Finally, map the desired columns:

API Destination - FastSpring

Read / write FastSpring data related to Orders, Subscriptions, Quotes, Products, Accounts and more without coding.
That's it; we successfully configured the POST API Call. In a few clicks we configured the FastSpring API call using ZappySys FastSpring Connector