Import documents from external systems via a single interface
fetchdocs automatically retrieves documents from file systems, cloud storage and accounting systems, and makes them available to your application via a unified API.
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Many applications not only need to generate documents but also retrieve them from external sources. From cloud storage such as Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive, from accounting systems like Lexware Office or sevdesk, or from specialised platforms. Each of these sources has its own authentication models, data formats and retrieval mechanisms. fetchdocs bundles this variety behind a unified API. Your team integrates once and can automatically import documents, including metadata, from any source system.
How it works
fetchdocs connects your customers' source systems with your application. Three steps from connection to imported document.
Cloud, Accounting, SFTP
Your users connect their source systems via the fetchdocs frontend: Dropbox, OneDrive, Lexware Office, sevdesk and others.
Unified retrieval
fetchdocs authenticates with the source system, automatically retrieves new documents and normalises them into a unified format.
Consistent intake
New documents are reported to your application via webhook or are available for retrieval via API - including metadata.
The challenge fetchdocs solves
Without a dedicated import layer, every new document source becomes a distinct engineering problem. Cloud storage, accounting systems and specialised platforms each have their own APIs, authentication procedures and data formats. The effort for connection and maintenance grows with every new source.
Each of these requirements ties up engineering capacity and generates ongoing maintenance overhead.
Technical context
fetchdocs is designed as an inbound infrastructure service for external document sources. The service sits ahead of extraction, validation and processing. It supports a standardised API-based integration model with identity management, connection management and automated document retrieval. The service is aimed at teams requiring reliable document import as part of a broader automation architecture.
Technical specification
What fetchdocs changes
With fetchdocs, the effort shifts from connector maintenance back to product progress.
Progress
Increased platform value
Standardisation
fetchdocs is a production-ready retrieval layer, shaped by real-world integration patterns, operational requirements and ongoing platform expansion with active source connections across multiple production environments.
Why teams do not build this infrastructure themselves
Product teams often start with individual integrations. Over time, a growing complex of connectors and custom logic emerges.
Complexity:
Connectors, parsers, custom logic. The effort grows exponentially with each new source.
Maintenance:
Every API change in a source system costs engineering time. The maintenance burden grows with each connection.
Fragility:
What works today may break tomorrow. An API update to a source system can jeopardise existing import connections.
Focus:
Your team builds product differentiation instead of import infrastructure.
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Speak to our team about your integration requirements. We will help you embed fetchdocs into your existing infrastructure.
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