API Platform Capabilities
Build APIs tailored to your solution's needs
Unlock the complete potential of your applications with our custom API capabilities. These custom APIs enable you to perform platform-specific tasks effortlessly, from sending push notifications to leveraging AI form fields and executing complex data actions. Security is always our top priority, with built-in functionalities for robust authentication mechanisms that safeguard your data and prevent unauthorized access.
With our custom API feature, you can extend your application capabilities, driving innovation and business productivity.
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Connect to external, local, and on-premises databases
Use Zoho Creator’s API Application Data Bridge to seamlessly connect with databases like:
- MS Access
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- Sybase
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle Database
- SQLite
- Db2
- Db2 AS/400
- SQLite
- Firebird
- Any Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver-supported database
or any Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver supported database
We also provide a custom middleware component to help you connect to these databases with our integration builder.
Connect to external cloud service databases
With Zoho Creator’s integration platform, connecting to your favorite third-party cloud service is easy. Our API integration platform can help you connect with the following cloud databases:
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Athena
- Microsoft SQL Azure
- Google BigQuery
- Google Cloud SQL
- Snowflake
- Oracle Cloud
- IBM Cloud
- Heroku PostgreSQL
- Panoply
Connect to any external, local, or on-premises non-database service
Our integration builder extends its capabilities to also connect to your non database services through our FTP service connector for file types like,
- CSV
- TSV
- ACCDB (MS Access)
- JSON
- XML
Payments
With Zoho Creator’s out-of-the-box API integrations, connect your application with any standard payment gateway.
SMS
Easily send and receive SMSes worldwide through our prebuilt SMS service integrations.
API builder for developers
With Zoho’s proprietary programming language, Deluge, API development is much easier, as developers can write a single line of code using dot notation to trigger connections with various services. For advanced requirements, developers can establish a connection with third-party APIs using GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE HTTP methods, along with complete REST and RPC data APIs for inward data integration.
Powerful Serverless Architecture Platform
Every application that’s built on Zoho Creator can be easily executed in a headless or an API only mode through auto-generated REST and XML-RPC APIs. Our serverless and powerful architecture API platform can also act as a Backend as a service (BaaS) that is completely managed by Zoho.
Robust third-party integration software
Zoho Creator's robust, powerful built-in integration platform as a service (iPaaS) can easily connect to 1000+ external services. Our API software also provides you with one-click integration with Zapier and Workato.
Learn morePopular third-party integration use cases with Zoho Creator’s API builder
- Create an entity in a Salesforce module
- Collect payments through Stripe
- Generate invoices through QuickBooks
- Send messages to a Slack channel
- Sending SMSes through Clickatell
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