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I want to do an iOS app that is integrated with Netsuite, it should have to be done through a RESTful API but I couldn't find anything clear enough on their site, internet or even by talking to their representatives. Does anyone know if there is any documentation around? Thanks!

pabloruiz55
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  • I do not know of a first-party RESTful API, but I did make an attempt at putting one together. Take a look at http://wispycoder.blogspot.com/2012/04/building-phpsuite-while-napping-pt-1.html hopefully you will find it useful. – Mr Griever Jan 15 '13 at 18:10
  • Here is one person's perspective on the question: http://benjsicam.me/blog/netsuite-restlets-commentary-restful-implementation-by-netsuite/ I don't have an opinion until I've had a chance to work with their current restlet implementation which should be real soon now. – David Watson Sep 12 '13 at 13:26
  • I would recommend using https://github.com/orgs/NetSweet/dashboard to build a standalone endpoint that you can interact with. Distancing your mobile app away from NetSuite using a middleware will enable you to deal with NetSuite's quirks as a separate problem space. – iloveitaly Feb 18 '15 at 20:45

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You can interface with NetSuite from a mobile app using one of the SuiteScript types called RESTlets. The documentation is in the help section so you will need a login. The user group community is also active and helpful with RESTlet questions.

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    RESTlets do not provide a REST API directly. They only provide the tools and libraries needed for you to build your own REST interfaces. So to use them you must write a RESTlet and the client code that uses the RESTlet you created. – Craig Aug 09 '12 at 22:13
  • @Craig is correct. There are no built in REST API's; they need to be created. – Corey Aug 10 '12 at 02:30
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    netsuite's usergroup is pathetic. Mostly questions and very rarely any netsuite representatives to support. – Erick Smith Feb 08 '13 at 15:45
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    That is insane. They have an api, but now everybody has to reimplement the exact same RESTlet layer so they can call it via a REST call? Why not just make the api available directly? This makes no sense. Everybody who wants to load a user record has to implement the exact same javascript restlet that loads a user record and returns the result. There is no stock implementation of this? – stu Nov 14 '14 at 16:03
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    Check out https://github.com/NetSweet/ Some great tools that myself and some other members of the community have been working on to make interacting with NetSuite via SOAP much easier. – iloveitaly Dec 18 '14 at 12:09
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I am using an API for my NetSuite integrated app, provided by Halosys (http://halosys.com/new-video-mobile-apps-for-netsuite.html).

The API is integrated with NetSuite and other systems and provides RESTful services for Mobile apps. More when I launch my Android app but overall happy with the simplified API & notifications etc.

There are a couple more companies that offer similar API service, generally known as a Mobile Backend-as-a-Service but it's important that you look for the ones that are focused on Enterprise and not consumer apps.

HackMobile

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