At Sage Pastel we pride ourselves in having created a mutually beneficial platform where we bring together businesses with specific needs and our 3rd Party developers, who can assist in resolving your needs.

We have even gone a step further to ensure that our 3rd Party developers can easily create niche vertical applications that seamlessly integrate into Pastel Partner and Pastel Evolution, by developing the Software Developers’ Kit (SDK).

Click on the tabs to learn more about how the Sage Pastel Partner SDK and the Sage Pastel Evolution SDK will assist you in writing customer specific applications that interact directly with the Sage Pastel Accounting system eliminating the need to develop relevant business rules and processes to update the accounting system first.

The Sage Pastel Software Developers’ Kit (SDK) allows developers to easily and seamlessly develop additional modules, front-ends and specialist imports and exportsfor Pastel Partner.

Using the SDK, a developer can for example, create a specialised invoicing screen for a particular vertical market, and simply send the information to the SDK. The SDK will perform all the validations as if it was a normal Pastel invoice, and update all the relevant Pastel files. Using the SDK ensures that the integrity of the data is maintained.

The Pastel SDK must be used within an ActiveX compliant programming environment. Typical examples of such programming environments are the latest versions of Microsoft C++, Clarion, Delphi, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Basic. A practical programming knowledge of these development languages is a pre-requisite when using the SDK.

The Pastel SDK is compliant with Pastel Accounting 2004 through to Version 11.

The Pastel SDK license is sold on an annual subscription basis. This subscription is subject to your acceptance of the Pastel Developer’s License Agreement.

The annual Pastel Partner SDK subscription entitles you to the following during the period of subscription:

Benefits Included	Benefits Excluded
To a single user Pastel Partner including most modules.	Tutoring in programming principles.
The right to distribute the Pastel SDK as part of your application without further run-time royalties.	One-on-one consulting on Pastel development related issues.
Access to the Developer Zone on www.sagepastel.com	Telephone support.
Free Pastel SDK updates, including feature enhancements when available. (Subject to the subscription being current)
Electronic documentation for the Pastel SDK.
Support of the Pastel SDK via e-mail only.   We aim to answer queries within 24 hours.
Notification of pending changes to the SDK.

Third party software developers can use the Pastel Evolution SDK to create customer-specific applications that integrate with the Pastel Evolution ERP software system without the need for issuing direct SQL statements against the Evolution database or having to work out relevant business rules and processes for updating the accounting system. 

The Pastel Evolution SDK is typically used for transaction processing and account maintenance, and these records can originate from any external source, whether it is an external database, XML, web service, or custom user interface.  The Pastel Evolution SDK consists of an Application Programming Interface (API) that exposes typical Pastel Evolution functionality to application developers.

The API embeds Pastel Evolution business logic enabling external applications to interact directly with Pastel Evolution databases. Third party developers can currently interface with Pastel Evolution on the database level; however, through the introduction of the SDK, the relevant processing logic gets taken care of, development time is dramatically reduced, and data integrity is ensured.

Since the Pastel Evolution SDK is packaged as a Microsoft .NET 2.0 assembly, the ideal platform for utilising the SDK is of course the .NET framework.  However, to accommodate the many third party developers utilising various other mainstream languages, integration through COM is possible using development environments such as Visual Basic 6, Visual C++, Visual Basic for Applications, and Delphi.

The following Pastel Evolution modules are currently supported, in whole or in part.

• General Ledger   
• Accounts Receivable  
• Accounts Payable
• Inventory
• Order (Sales and Purchase Orders)  
• Serial Number Tracking
• Multi-Warehousing
• Customer Account Consolidation
• Job Costing

In order to take advantage of the abilities of the Pastel Evolution SDK, developers and clients need to subscribe to additional add-on modules. This subscription is subject to your acceptance of the Pastel Software Developers’ License Agreement.

The annual Pastel Evolution SDK subscription entitles you to the following during the period of subscription:

Benefits Included	Benefits Excluded
To a single user Partner including most modules.	Tutoring in programming principles.
The right to distribute the Pastel SDK as part of your application without further run-time royalties.	One-on-one consulting on Pastel development related issues.
Access to the Developer Zone on www.pastel.com	Telephone support.
Free Pastel SDK updates, including feature enhancements when available (Subject to the subscription being current).
Electronic documentation for the Pastel SDK.
Support of the Pastel SDK via e-mail only.
Notification of pending changes to the Pastel product and/or SDK.

• Pastel Partner SDK Developer
  • Application form
  • Terms and Conditions
  
  
  
• Pastel Evolution SDK Developer
  • Application form
  • Terms and Conditions

The following 3rd party (independent) developers are authorised by Sage Pastel to use the Sage Pastel Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) and have developed software that integrates with Sage Pastel accounting, ERP and business software. Sage Pastel does not claim any responsibility for these products nor does it support or sell any of the products and/or services listed below. Only the developers listed hereunder are permitted to display the "Sage Pastel Authorised 3rd Party Developer" logo.

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