Hitting Sage Intacct API Limits? Control your API Usage with CData Connect Cloud

Sage Intacct is a leading ERP platform for accounting and finance teams, and for good reason. But once your company reaches even a modest level of growth, API limits in Sage Intacct can become a real bottleneck if you’re integrating data elsewhere.

Medium to large organizations often connect multiple systems to Sage, each querying data several—or even thousands—of times a day. This adds up quickly. Before long, even routine operations like analytics dashboards, reconciliation workflows, or financial reports can max out your API usage — long before you planned for an upgrade.

Sage offers higher tiers for increased API capacity, but these can be costly. And for teams who just need consistent access to live accounting data, paying more may not feel justified.

There’s a better way to connect data in Sage; one that gives you more control over your API usage, keeps your data fresh, and saves you from unexpected infrastructure costs.

Control your API usage with caching in Connect Cloud

CData Connect Cloud makes it easy to manage how and when Sage Intacct is accessed, without compromising the freshness or reliability of your data.

With Connect Cloud, you can configure caching for your Sage Intacct connection—storing the results of API calls in a database you control. Then, schedule when the data is refreshed based on your operational needs. Connect Cloud also uses incremental loading, focusing on just updating changes to Sage data rather than copying the entire source, reducing unnecessary API usage even more.

This allows you to:

• Avoid unnecessary API calls by setting refresh intervals that reflect your actual data usage needs and focusing on changes and updates to the data
• Keep analytics platforms running smoothly with consistent, up-to-date financial data.
• Extend Sage access to more users or tools without triggering additional API costs.

All of this is managed through Connect Cloud’s Jobs feature — no custom scripting, just straightforward scheduling and caching configuration.

What you’ll need to get started

To enable caching, you’ll need a PostgreSQL database that your organization controls and owns. This is where the cached data is stored between refreshes. Your IT team or a technical user can typically set this up quickly, and once it's configured, Connect Cloud takes care of the rest.

From there, you simply define your cache settings for Sage Intacct, choose your refresh frequency, and connect your data tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or Excel, directly to the cached dataset.

It’s a simple setup that provides big efficiency gains for growing teams that rely heavily on Sage data.

Real results: How AMI revitalized Sage Intacct reporting with caching

One Connect Cloud customer, AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, ran into the same API challenges while building Power BI dashboards from Sage Intacct. With dashboards refreshing multiple times a day, their team quickly found themselves bumping into Sage's API rate limits.

By setting up a PostgreSQL cache and scheduling refreshes using Connect Cloud, AMI regained control over its data usage. They kept dashboards current, reduced API traffic, and avoided costly usage tiers—all without adding complexity or manual maintenance.

“Instead of hitting Sage APIs every time we wanted to refresh, we hit our own Postgres cache—CData Connect Cloud handled the rest.”

— Vlad Obukhanich, Financial Analyst

AMI’s success is a great example of how Connect Cloud empowers finance teams to keep their data live and reliable, without the API headaches.

Save API calls, save budget

This approach to managing API usage is already helping companies reduce costs and complexity across other systems. Whether you’re connecting Sage Intacct to a reporting platform, a financial planning tool, or an internal app, caching with Connect Cloud offers:

• Fewer direct API calls mean fewer usage overages.
• Scheduled refreshes mean timely, accurate data on your terms.
• No need for expensive API tier upgrades just to maintain data access.

Take control of your Sage Intacct connectivity

Don’t let API limits disrupt your financial operations or surprise you with extra costs. With CData Connect Cloud, you can set up smart, scheduled access to Sage Intacct, keeping your analytics live and your API usage under control.

Start your free trial of CData Connect Cloud today and streamline your Sage Intacct data strategy.