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Most businesses do not need to replace their software. They need the pieces to stop depending on a person who copies numbers from one screen into another. We build those connections: data moving between your systems on its own, checked and logged, so your team keeps the tools it likes and stops doing the retyping.
Every integration starts with what each of your systems will actually let outside software reach. From there, these are the builds we get asked for most.
A record created in one system shows up in the other, and a change on either side carries across, so nobody enters the same thing twice.
Jobs, invoices, and payments delivered into your accounting software in the shape your bookkeeper expects to find them.
A monitor that notices when a connection stops, tells the right person, and records what was missed so it can be caught up.
Some software offers no clean way in. We work from exports, emailed reports, and whatever access the vendor allows.
Charges tied to the right job, and texts or emails that go out when something in the record changes, without anyone pressing send.
An owner view built from your platform’s own data, for the numbers its built-in reporting leaves out.
We genuinely view Allen App Tools as an extension of our team — our integrations department.
What an integration can do depends on what each vendor lets you reach, and that varies by platform and sometimes by plan. So we check before we quote.
Every system, what data lives in each, and which direction it needs to move. Usually one conversation.
We confirm what your accounts can actually reach, so the plan is built on the real connection and not on a sales page.
Each connection is quoted before work starts, beginning with the one that removes the most retyping.
Vendors change their software. Upkeep runs on an hourly contract, so a change on their end gets handled on ours.
A client’s desktop software sent out a data file by email every fifteen minutes, and what was in that file needed to update tasks in ClickUp, the project management tool the team ran on. We built the pipeline through Gmail, Sheets, and the ClickUp API that picks up each file and updates the tasks, so the board stays current without anyone copying data into it.
For dozens of platforms that service businesses run on, we have written up what an integration could do: the gaps their own users point out, and the builds that would close them. These are ideas rather than client projects, and a good place to start the conversation.
Not on the list? Most business software can be reached one way or another. Ask us about yours.
No. Integration work exists so you can keep what is working. If one of your tools turns out to be the actual problem, we will say so, but that is a separate conversation.
Plenty of platforms do not, or keep it behind a higher plan. There is often still a way through, such as scheduled exports or emailed reports. Before you pay for anything, we tell you what is reachable and what is not.
For simple handoffs where a missed step is no big deal, those tools are fine, and we will tell you to use them. When the process is critical, needs logic those tools struggle to express, or breaks often enough that someone babysits it, a custom connection is easier to trust and easier to fix.
It happens, and it is the main reason integrations need an owner. We build in monitoring so a broken connection gets noticed, and upkeep afterward is hourly, so you only pay for the changes that actually come up.
You do. The code and the accounts it runs on belong to your company, so you are never locked to us to keep it running.