Convio Web Services

Convio Web Services (CWS) are designed to empower clients and partners to implement data synchronization with external systems such as donor databases, and also to provide external applications access to the data captured and stored in the Convio system. Imagine a desktop application that could provide real-time data for a telethon or an event. CWS makes this a real possibility.

CWS is one component of the Convio Open API portfolio, and is intended primarily for implementing standalone applications such as data integration agents. Other components of the Open API portfolio follow the ReST style of operation. For more information on these APIs, see the Convio Open API section. CWS follow the SOAP standard, in which all messages between the client and server follow a particular secure XML format. In addition, all supported operations are described in a machine-readable document written in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The combination of SOAP and WSDL makes it easy to create Convio-aware applications with the most popular development environments, including Java and .NET.

A CWS user guide and reference documentation are available online, containing detailed information about data components available, operations supported, and building applications to implement data synchronization and retrieval. Convio would be happy to arrange a meeting with subject matter experts on the Sales Engineering team to discuss plans in more detail.