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> This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

Backed connects to other systems in eight ways. Each is set up by an Administrator under
`Settings > Profile and terms`: single sign-on, the API, MCP and the business and charity registers each
on a tab of their own, and Slack, Microsoft Teams, your accounting system, and Zapier and Make each in a
section of the `Details` tab.

## Single sign-on

Let your people sign in with your identity provider, such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google
Workspace, over SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect, and require it with SSO-only mode. See
[Single sign-on](single-sign-on.md).

## The Backed API

Create credentials so another system can reach your organisation's data through the
Backed API. See [API access](api-access.md). The reference, guides and OpenAPI document for
developers are on the developer site: see [Developer documentation](developer-documentation.md).

## Power BI and other reporting tools

Feed a Power BI dataset, or another reporting tool's, from the Backed API: a credential named for
the tool, a token, and every application read page by page on each scheduled refresh. Power BI
pulls; Backed sends nothing and offers no connector, so a dashboard is as current as its last
refresh. See [Reporting feed for analytics tools](power-bi.md).

Or point Power BI, Excel or a data warehouse loader at your organisation's OData feed: ten record
types, read with filters, 1,000-row pages and change tracking, under one credential with the
`Read reporting feed` scope. See [OData feed for BI tools and data warehouses](odata-feed.md).

## AI assistants (MCP)

Let Administrators connect an AI assistant, such as Claude, to read your organisation's outcomes.
See [Connect an AI assistant with MCP](mcp.md).

## Zapier and Make

Connect Backed to thousands of other tools without code. A Zap or a Make scenario can start when an
application is submitted, a decision is made or a payment is paid, and can create or update
registrations, add notes and tags to applications and upload files in Backed. Each connects with
an API Credential, and each trigger it uses shows on the `Webhooks` tab with a `Zapier` or `Make`
badge. The `Zapier` and `Make` cards under `Automation platforms` on the `Details` tab link to each
app's directory listing. See [Zapier](zapier.md) and [Make](make.md).

## Slack

Post notifications to a Slack channel, such as each submitted application. Connect it from the
`Slack` section of `Settings > Profile and terms`; see
[Organisation settings](../administrator/organisation/organisation-settings.md#connected-services).

## Microsoft Teams

Post the same notifications to a Microsoft Teams channel, beside Slack or instead of it. Connect it
from the `Microsoft Teams` section, under `Slack`, with the webhook address of a Teams workflow; see
[Connect Microsoft Teams](microsoft-teams.md).

## Business and charity registers

Look an applicant's ABN, NZBN or charity number up in the Australian and New Zealand registers,
and fill form answers from what the register holds. Turn each register on from the `Registers` tab
of `Settings > Profile and terms`; see [Business and charity registers](registers.md).

## Accounting: Xero, QuickBooks Online and MYOB

Create a bill in your accounting system for each milestone, at the sync point you choose, and
bring the payments made against those bills back into Backed each night. Your organisation
connects one accounting system at a time, from its section of `Settings > Profile and terms`; see
[Xero](xero.md), [QuickBooks Online](quickbooks.md) or [MYOB](myob.md), and
[Milestone accounting](milestone-accounting.md) for what each milestone shows.

## Integration logs

See what your connected integrations have sent and received, filter it by integration, outcome
and date, and open each entry's details. See [Integration logs](integration-logs.md).