Core Concepts

Third-party Integration

Third parties can integrate with Manheim's data and systems through three primary means:

1. A suite of modern RESTful, hypermedia APIs
2. Event-driven notifications
3. Legacy web services

The Manheim developer portal provides documentation for all three means.

Manheim's modern application programming interfaces (APIs) provide third parties with HTTP methods for RESTful services. More specifically, each API defines RESTful POST, GET, and DELETE methods that are called against entity-centric URL endpoints. These methods often require or return objects in JSON format, and these objects contain hypermedia references.

Manheim's event-driven notification services delivers outbound messages to third-party APIs. Each subscriber to this messaging service is an external system defined by its API endpoint URL, which the third party provides to Manheim. Each subscriber can have one more subscription, with each subscription for a particular entity or a specific type of event.

Manheim's legacy web services provide additional functionality through older interfaces that do not conform to Manheim's modern, RESTful architecture.