Connect your app to Sevdesk
You can connect your Lovable app to Sevdesk, an accounting platform, to manage things like contacts, invoices, and orders directly from your app. This lets you build custom tools that interact with your existing Sevdesk data.
Anyone who uses Sevdesk for their business and wants to build a Lovable app that reads or updates their accounting records.
Do this, in order
- 1
Sign in to your Sevdesk account and go to 'Settings' then 'Users'.
You need to find your unique API token, which acts like a password for your Lovable app to access Sevdesk.
- 2
Open the user whose API access you want to use and copy the 32-character API token.
This token is essential for Lovable to securely connect to your Sevdesk data.
- 3
In Lovable, go to 'Connectors', select 'Sevdesk', and click 'Add connection'.
This starts the process of setting up the link between Lovable and Sevdesk.
- 4
Give your connection a display name (like 'Sevdesk Prod') and paste the API token you copied.
The display name helps you identify this specific connection, and the API token authenticates it.
- 5
Choose who can use this connection within your Lovable workspace, or keep it private to yourself.
This controls who else in your team can build apps that use this Sevdesk connection.
- 6
Click 'Connect' to finalize the setup.
Lovable will verify the token, and once connected, your apps can start interacting with Sevdesk data.
Paste this into your project
Use Sevdesk and build an invoice dashboard that lists open invoices, due dates, customers, and payment status.
Words decoded
- API token
- A secret code that acts like a password, allowing one computer program (like your Lovable app) to securely access another program's services (like Sevdesk) on your behalf.
- Connector
- A built-in tool in Lovable that lets your apps talk to other services, like Sevdesk, without needing to write complex code.
- Workflows
- A series of steps or tasks that are followed to achieve a particular outcome, often involving multiple people or systems.
Where people get stuck
- Sharing your Sevdesk API token publicly, as it functions like a password and grants access to your Sevdesk account.
- Forgetting to include person contacts when asking Lovable to list contacts, as Sevdesk's default contact list only returns organizations.
- Expecting the connector to create a Sevdesk account or API token for you, as these must be obtained directly from Sevdesk.
- Assuming the connector can bypass the permissions of the Sevdesk user associated with the API token.
- Not having permission to create connections in your Lovable workspace, which might prevent you from setting up the Sevdesk link.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.