Sunbeast API integration & OpenData services

1. Associate identity & session

Mirror the Sunbeast login flow (invitation link, OTP, or federated merchant credential) and expose a stable associate_id plus store/group mapping. Typical use: unify an associate's identity across Sunbeast, Sunbit Merchant, your POS, and HRIS so performance data from all systems can be joined.

2. Rewards points ledger

Pull the full ledger of point accruals and cash rewards — event type, source (offer made, application started, application funded, training completed), timestamp, and monetary value. Typical use: automated SPIFF reconciliation and end-of-month payout files.

3. Leaderboards & peer ranking

Time-bounded leaderboards (daily / weekly / monthly) at store, group, and brand level, with rank, score, and change vs. previous period. Typical use: feeding operator BI dashboards and email digests without screen-scraping the app.

4. Tips & training progress

Status of in-app certification content: module completion, quiz scores, tip views, and time-on-task. Typical use: proving associate training compliance to brand owners and to Sunbit certification audits.

5. BNPL offer attribution

Link each Sunbit application, approval, and funded loan back to the associate who originated the offer — via invitation code, checkout link, or session handoff. Typical use: true "revenue per associate" reporting and franchisee commissioning.

6. Notification & event webhook

Outbound webhook stream: points.credited, leaderboard.rank_changed, training.completed, reward.redeemed. Typical use: trigger a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel ping when a store crosses a conversion-rate threshold.

Scenario A — Automated SPIFF reconciliation

Business context: A multi-location auto-service group pays associates a bonus for every funded Sunbit plan. Manual screenshots of the Sunbeast leaderboard are error-prone and delay payroll by 3–5 days.

Data / API: GET /sunbeast/points/ledger with associate_id, from, to pulls every accrual event. A nightly job writes to the payroll ERP via a CSV drop.

OpenData mapping: Treats Sunbit-originated rewards as structured ledger events, consumable the same way an Open Banking statement feed is consumed by an accounting platform.

Scenario B — BNPL revenue per associate

Business context: A franchisor wants to rank associates by "funded Sunbit volume" and allocate co-op marketing budget to the top third.

Data / API: Join Sunbeast attribution export (offer_id, associate_id) with Sunbit Merchant funded-transaction feed (via the Sunbit partner portal or the Sunbit-on-Stripe webhook published in 2024). Aggregate by store and by week.

OpenFinance mapping: The Sunbit side is classic OpenFinance — authorized access to financing and transaction data — while Sunbeast supplies the human-attribution layer.

Scenario C — Certification compliance audit

Business context: Brand-standards teams must prove that 95% of front-line associates completed the latest Sunbit pitch-training module within 14 days of a product update.

Data / API: GET /sunbeast/training/status?module=offer-v3 returns per-associate completion and quiz-score records. A compliance dashboard refreshes daily.

OpenData mapping: The same consent + audit-log pattern used for OpenBanking "account information" flows is reused here for workforce learning records.

Scenario D — Gamification dashboard in BI

Business context: Operations wants a Looker / Power BI tile that shows real-time top-10 stores by Sunbit attach rate, refreshed every 15 minutes.

Data / API: GET /sunbeast/leaderboard?scope=store&period=weekly plus a websocket or webhook that pushes leaderboard.rank_changed events into your warehouse staging table.

OpenData mapping: Same streaming-vs-batch trade-off seen in OpenBanking real-time account aggregation — we use webhooks for freshness and a nightly reconciliation snapshot for correctness.

Scenario E — Multi-app unified associate view

Business context: A dental services operator uses Sunbeast (associate gamification), Sunbit Merchant (POS financing), and a separate HRIS. Reporting is fragmented across three logins.

Data / API: Our Sunbeast API plus our Sunbit Merchant connector plus a standard HRIS adapter, unified behind a single GET /people/{id} response that includes rewards, funded volume, training, and employment data.

OpenData mapping: This is the classic OpenData "unified profile" pattern — one consented endpoint, multiple upstream providers, normalised fields.

1. Associate login (OAuth-style bearer)

POST /api/v1/sunbeast/session
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "merchant_code": "SB-AUTO-1042",
  "associate_email": "alex@example-merchant.com",
  "otp": "492731"
}

200 OK
{
  "associate_id": "ass_01HZ7K...",
  "access_token": "eyJhbGciOi...",
  "refresh_token": "rft_01HZ7K...",
  "expires_in": 3600,
  "scope": "rewards:read leaderboard:read training:read"
}

2. Rewards ledger query

GET /api/v1/sunbeast/points/ledger
  ?associate_id=ass_01HZ7K
  &from=2025-09-01&to=2025-09-30
Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>

200 OK
{
  "associate_id": "ass_01HZ7K...",
  "balance": 4275,
  "currency_equivalent": {"usd": 42.75},
  "events": [
    {"type":"offer_made","points":5,"at":"2025-09-03T14:22:10Z"},
    {"type":"application_funded","points":200,"order_id":"ord_9812","at":"2025-09-03T14:51:02Z"},
    {"type":"training_completed","points":50,"module":"offer-v3","at":"2025-09-04T09:12:40Z"}
  ],
  "next_cursor": null
}

3. Leaderboard webhook

POST https://your-app.example.com/webhooks/sunbeast
X-Sunbeast-Signature: t=1712345678,v1=a7f3...

{
  "event": "leaderboard.rank_changed",
  "scope": "store",
  "store_id": "st_77",
  "period": "weekly",
  "associate_id": "ass_01HZ7K",
  "previous_rank": 7,
  "new_rank": 3,
  "score": 1820,
  "emitted_at": "2025-09-15T18:00:03Z"
}

// Verify HMAC signature with your shared secret before trusting payload.

Compliance & privacy

Sunbeast data touches US consumer-finance and workforce domains, so integrations are designed against a concrete regulatory checklist:

• GLBA & CCPA/CPRA — Since Sunbit is a US BNPL lender and Sunbeast attribution links to funded loans, downstream stores of that data should respect financial-privacy safeguards and California consumer rights.
• FCRA-adjacent data handling — Any derived analytics about associates should not be used as a consumer credit decision input; we keep workforce scoring and consumer credit strictly separated.
• PCI DSS — The Sunbeast app itself does not capture PANs, but adjacent Sunbit Merchant and Stripe-based flows do; our integration keeps card data outside of the OpenData pipeline by design.
• GDPR / UK GDPR — For multi-region merchants, we support data-minimization, purpose limitation, and a data-subject access endpoint.
• Sunbeast Rewards Terms (effective July 3, 2025) — We respect the program's own terms regarding associate eligibility, reward redemption, and acceptable use.

Data flow / architecture

A typical Sunbeast OpenData deployment is a 4-stage pipeline:

1. Client — Sunbeast mobile app (Android com.sunbeast / iOS) used by the associate.
2. Ingestion / API gateway — Our mirrored endpoints perform authorized protocol calls, normalise responses, and enforce rate limits.
3. Storage — Event-sourced warehouse (e.g. BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres) with a sunbeast_events fact table and dim tables for associate, store, and group.
4. Analytics / API output — BI dashboards, payroll ERP feeds, and your own REST/GraphQL layer that fans out to internal consumers.

Each stage logs a correlation ID so every exported row can be traced back to the original authorized app call.

Deliverables checklist

• API specification in OpenAPI 3.1 / Swagger, including all Sunbeast endpoints in scope
• Protocol and auth-flow report (token format, refresh cycle, device binding, certificate pinning notes)
• Runnable API source code in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express/Nest) — your choice
• Docker Compose stack with a mock Sunbeast upstream for offline development and CI
• Integration tests, fixture data, and a Postman collection
• Compliance guidance: consent text template, retention policy, and access-log schema

Engagement models

• Source code delivery from $300 — we hand over runnable API source code and documentation for the endpoints you scope; payment is made after delivery upon satisfaction.
• Pay-per-call hosted API — call our managed Sunbeast endpoints and pay only for what you use; ideal for proof-of-concept, low-volume pilots, or teams that prefer usage-based pricing and no infrastructure ownership.

About our studio

We are an independent technical studio specialising in app interface integration and authorized API integration. Team members have spent years inside mobile engineering and fintech — on payment gateways, bank-side open-banking programs, BNPL platforms, and retail-tech POS vendors — so we are as comfortable reading a Sunbit partner doc as we are inspecting a mobile app's network stack.

Our service model is deliberately simple: you send us the target app name (here, Sunbeast) and the concrete requirement (rewards ledger export, leaderboard sync, attribution reconciliation, etc.); we return usable API or protocol-implementation source code, documentation, and a test plan. We work under authorization or against documented public APIs, and we always scope data minimisation up front.

• Financial and banking apps — statement, transaction, and balance integrations
• E-commerce, food-delivery, and retail apps — orders, payments, data sync
• Hotel, travel, and mobility apps — bookings, itineraries, payment verification
• Social, OTT media, and dating apps — authentication, messaging, profile management
• Delivery: protocol analysis → build → validation → compliance & hand-off

Contact

To request a quote, submit a Sunbeast integration requirement, or ask about the pay-per-call hosted API, open our contact page:

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Please include: target app (Sunbeast), the endpoints you need (e.g. rewards ledger, leaderboard, attribution), expected call volume, preferred engagement model (source-code delivery or pay-per-call), and any sandbox or authorization credentials already in your possession.

Engagement workflow

1. Scope confirmation — Which Sunbeast surfaces do you need (rewards / leaderboard / training / attribution / webhooks)?
2. Protocol analysis and API design — typically 2–5 business days for Sunbeast-sized apps.
3. Build and internal validation — 3–8 business days depending on surface count and language.
4. Documentation, sample code, and integration tests — 1–2 business days.
5. Delivery window — first usable drop in 5–15 business days; longer only if third-party approvals are required.

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