Integrations - Technology
API
(Application Programming Interface)
A defined mechanism for different pieces of software to communicate with each other
What's it for?
Lets different pieces of software exchange information or ask each other to do something.
For example…
A booking website asks a separate payment system to take the money
A weather app asks another service for today's temperature.
Think of it like…
Semaphore flags, with each position having an agreed meaning so messages can be exchanged in a standard way