Notes from the team.
Working notes on Accredo integration, the Rapido SDK, and what we're learning shipping AI into the back office.
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Claude for Work and Accredo: practical AI for the back office
How NZ businesses are using Claude — Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and the Team and Enterprise plans — as a daily co-worker on the Accredo company file. Real workflows, with the Rapido MCP server as the connective tissue.
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Why your trade customers need your data in real time
How giving your trade customers a live feed of pricing, stock, and product data — via FTP or API — makes them sell more, and why both still matter in 2026.
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How to connect Accredo to Claude
Use Anthropic Claude as a conversational interface to your Accredo company file — read balances, draft orders, find a customer — through the Rapido MCP server.
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How to connect Accredo to ChatGPT
Use ChatGPT as a conversational interface to your Accredo company file — query debtors, draft orders, run reports — via Custom GPTs and the Rapido MCP server.
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How to connect Accredo to Snowflake
Stream your Accredo company file into Snowflake with a real medallion architecture — Bronze raw, Silver cleansed, Gold star schema, Power-BI-ready views. Built for NZ businesses outgrowing Excel.
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How to connect Accredo to Shopify
Sync products, prices, inventory and customers between Accredo and your Shopify storefront in real time. Practical guide for NZ wholesalers and distributors.
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How to connect Accredo to HubSpot
Sync customers, contacts and Accredo financial state into HubSpot CRM so your sales team sees what your accounts team sees. Real-time, two-way.
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Why your Accredo business needs a B2B portal
Most Accredo customers still take orders by phone, email and PDF. Here's what changes when you give your trade customers a real portal — and what it costs not to.
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How AI is changing Accredo workflows
Practical look at where AI actually moves the needle in an Accredo business — PO automation, invoice matching, AR collections — and where it just gets in the way.
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Accredo Saturn vs Mercury: which edition fits your business?
Plain-English comparison of Accredo Saturn and Mercury — when to choose which, when to upgrade, and what changes for your team.
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Harnessing Accredo's Web Service API
What the Accredo OData v4 API actually unlocks — data integration, process automation, custom workflows — and how the Rapido SDK makes it usable without OData expertise.
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Introducing the Rapido SDK for Accredo
A typed TypeScript client for the Accredo Web Service API. Open source under the Sustainable Use License. Built so we don't write the same OData glue twice.
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How Rapido started: from a Haydn Brush PDF to a real-time integration platform
The origin story — Accredo released its Web Service API, founder Adam Holt started building, and a single Haydn Brush PO2Order workflow turned into a platform.
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