Real-world usecases for the Collections API

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Hi Steve!
I guess most of the users here, have not created advanced websites to use the Collection API.
In general, as mentioned by John, the Collection API offers a bidirectional way to communicate with external apps/websites (basically it is a Rest API access endpoint to collections).
As for specific examples, here are a few:

  • Fontend submissions - if you want to allow users (visitors) to post data inside 1/multiple collections - this was a bit discussed here
  • The Template Gallery from SiteJet - it looks that they are using the API here… but, the idea here is simple you can use the Collection API to show the data on other websites
  • Syncing collection data - in general you can sync data with external apps/websites - as a simple example lets say you have a product stock counter and at each sale you want to decrease the counter
  • Custom Import/Export mechanism - right now you can only use CVS files to import or export data from collections … if you need JSON/XML … you can create a script and use the api

Hope this helps.

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