KlarPris and Elnett Gruppen: an integration platform built for KlarPris and its customers

A solution built for KlarPris

KlarPris is a purchasing platform where electricians find and order materials from the wholesalers. When KlarPris enters a new market, it meets new customers with new systems. If KlarPris had to develop and maintain an integration to each of them, every new market would start with a large development project.

That’s why Connectify has developed an integration platform specifically for KlarPris and its customers. KlarPris only has to talk to one platform, and we take care of the connections to the systems the customers use. That has made it possible for KlarPris to enter the Norwegian market without building the integrations themselves.

About Elnett Gruppen

Elnett Gruppen is a Norwegian alliance of independent electrical contractors with 22 shareholders, more than 70 locations and over 3,000 employees across Norway. The companies work together on purchasing and development, among other things, but each has its own ways of working and its own systems.

The challenge

The electricians in Elnett Gruppen order materials through KlarPris, but the work is managed in each company’s own system, where every job is a work order. Most use Contracting Works, others Cordel or Visma Business NXT.

For purchases to follow the right job, every work order has to exist in KlarPris as a basket the electrician can order against. Creating them by hand would take time away from the actual work, and with different systems in each company, one solution per system would mean more integrations, more suppliers and a new project every time a company joined.

How we solved it

Connectify has built a shared integration platform between KlarPris and the companies’ systems. Each company has its own setup on the platform, but everything runs through the same place.

When a work order is created, it is sent to KlarPris as a basket with the order number, reference and description, so the electrician can see which job the basket belongs to. This happens via webhook, so the basket is ready a few seconds later, and a scheduled sync catches anything a webhook misses. Internal jobs can be left out if the company wants.

Once the electrician has ordered from the basket, it is used up. The integration watches the order confirmations from KlarPris, and as long as the work order is still open, a new basket is created for the next order on the same job.

The order confirmations can also become purchase orders in the company’s own system, with the right supplier and a link to the job, so the purchase is recorded in the accounts without being keyed in again.

The platform has a dashboard where the integrations and their activity can be followed across the companies, and where errors show up.

The result

KlarPris has entered the Norwegian market without building the integrations themselves, and Elnett Gruppen has one integration partner and one platform instead of an integration per system. The companies keep their own systems, and the electricians find a basket ready in KlarPris for every job without anyone creating it.

The platform is built so more systems can be added. If a company gets a new system, or the group wants to connect other solutions, it can be built on the same platform without starting over.

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