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API and AI integration

Count-IT API and AI integration via MCP

Connect your own software or website through the REST API, or give an AI assistant access to your data through the MCP server. Always within the rights you grant, and revocable at any time.

In short

Count-IT has a REST API with OAuth2 for your own software and websites, and an MCP server that lets an AI assistant read your data and, if you allow it, edit products and web pages, for example. An API app or MCP token never gets more rights than the user who approves or creates it.

  • REST API with OAuth2: access per company and per area, view or modify
  • MCP token with an access level: read only (default), add and edit, or delete as well
  • Missing data? Based on your needs, we make (nearly) everything available through the API and MCP
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What are the Count-IT API and the MCP server?

An API (application programming interface) is a fixed way for software to talk to other software. Through the Count-IT API, your own software, your website or a custom integration can retrieve data from Count-IT and, where permitted, modify it. It is a REST API with OAuth2: your software asks for permission, you approve it in Count-IT and choose which data the app may use. Ready-made integrations with accounting, web shops and carriers can be found under integrations; the API is for everything you want to build yourself.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that AI assistants use to connect to other systems. With the Count-IT MCP server, an AI assistant that supports MCP, such as ChatGPT or Claude, can consult your data. You enable AI data access per administration and create a personal MCP token. The assistant then works within the rights of you as the creator of the token.

This lets you ask an assistant questions about your data in plain language, or have it update products, translations and web pages if you allow it. You decide the access level and check what the assistant changes. Do you need data or functions that are not included yet? Based on your needs, we make (nearly) everything available through the API and MCP. Get in touch and tell us what you need.

Features

What you can do with the API and MCP

Both work within the user rights you have already set up in Count-IT.

Connect your own software

Create an API app for your own integration. You receive a client identity and secret and enter a redirect URI: the address your software returns to after approval.

Access per company and area

When approving, you choose the companies and, per area such as products or relations, whether the app may view and whether it may modify. On the Connected apps tab you can change this later or revoke access.

Products, relations, stock and more

Through the API you currently work with products, prices, product groups, scan codes, images and product info fields, customers, suppliers and contacts, stock and warehouses, sales orders and VAT codes, among other things. Need more? We make it available based on your needs.

Your own website on Count-IT

Read web pages, photo albums and reviews from the CMS, for example, with images as public links. For a web shop there is a ready-made catalogue with categories, active products, prices excl. VAT, images and product info fields.

AI assistant via MCP

With a personal MCP token, an AI assistant can read your data, for example to answer questions about sales or stock. Read only is the default.

Have texts written and translated

With the read, add and edit access level, the assistant can create and modify products, product groups, web shop categories and web shop products, among other things, and update their translations and those of product info fields.

Manage web pages

The assistant can also manage web pages of your website and web shops, such as a privacy statement: title, content, address, meta description, visibility, position in the menu and translations. The creator needs the rights for web pages for this.

Secure and revocable

An app or token can never do more than the user's rights allow. A change of access level applies immediately, and a revoked app or token stops working.

How it works

From first connection to management

  1. Create an API app

    Create an API app and enter the redirect URI. It must match exactly the address your software sends.

  2. Approve

    Approve the app and choose the companies and, per area, view or modify. Switch off what the app does not need.

  3. Build with the documentation

    The technical documentation describes authentication, endpoints, fields, filtering, sorting and pagination. Import the OpenAPI specification into Postman, for example.

  4. Or: connect AI via MCP

    Enable AI data access and, under App connector, create an MCP token with a recognisable name, an end date and the right access level.

  5. Manage and revoke

    Revoke a token when it is no longer needed or may have leaked. An app that has not been used for 90 days needs to be approved again.

To be fair

Good to know

So you know in advance what to expect.

  • The technical API documentation is available in English only.
  • Count-IT provides the API and the MCP server, not the AI assistant itself. You choose and arrange that separately.
Frequently asked questions

Questions about the API and AI integration

Does Count-IT have an API?

Yes. Count-IT has a REST API with OAuth2. You create an API app, approve it and choose per company and per area whether the app may view and modify data. The app can never do more than your own user rights allow.

Which data is available through the API and MCP?

Currently, among other things, products, prices, product groups, product info fields, relations, stock, sales orders, VAT codes, web shops and the web pages, photo albums and reviews of the CMS. Missing something? Based on your needs, we make (nearly) everything available through the API and MCP. Get in touch and tell us what you need.

Where can I find the API documentation?

The technical documentation (in English) is at start.count-it.eu/api/docs; no login is needed. You can also open it with the API documentation button in your API apps. The specification can be downloaded as an OpenAPI file, for Postman, for example.

How do I connect an AI assistant to Count-IT?

Enable AI data access for your administration and, under App connector, create a personal MCP token with a recognisable name and end date. You use that token in an AI assistant that supports MCP. Under Access level, choose whether the assistant may only read or may also make changes.

Can an AI assistant change data in Count-IT?

Only if you allow it. Read only is the default. With read, add and edit, the assistant can change products, product groups, web shop categories and products, translations, product info fields and web pages, among other things; with the highest level it can also delete. The rights of the token's creator still apply.

Is the AI integration secure?

The token never has more rights than the user who creates it. So use a user with as few rights as possible, give the token an end date, never share it by email or chat and revoke it if it is lost. Only grant write access when you really need it and check the assistant's changes.

Can I build my own website on Count-IT?

Yes. Through the API you read web pages, photo albums and reviews from the CMS, and there is a ready-made catalogue of a web shop with categories, active products, prices excl. VAT, images and product info fields. Rather not build it yourself? Then take a look at the Count-IT website and web shop.

What do I do if MCP or API access does not work?

Check whether the feature is enabled, the token or secret is still valid, the end date has not passed and the creator has sufficient rights. For an API app, the redirect URI must match exactly, and after 90 days without use you approve the app again. More in the knowledge base on integrations.

Which plan includes the API and the AI integration?

The API and the AI integration via MCP are part of the Full plan. You arrange the AI assistant itself, for example ChatGPT or Claude, separately with its own subscription.

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More about connecting

Integrations

Ready-made integrations with accounting, web shops and more.

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Website and web shop

Your website and web shop straight from Count-IT.

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Product management

Products, product info fields and translations in one place.

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Knowledge base: integrations

API, MCP and integrations step by step.

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Discuss your integration with us

In a demo we show you how the API and the AI integration work, and help you work out which data you need.

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