Has Anyone Used the SKY API to Submit Invoices from an External Tool?

Jun Espino

Hi everyone,

We’re piloting a lightweight Windows-based tool to help our staff submit invoices to Financial Edge NXT using the SKY API.

We often receive payment requests with long distribution lines in Excel. The built-in Import Invoices feature in FE NXT is too cumbersome for our team’s needs—it requires mapping files and formatting that's not always intuitive. Our goal was to create a simpler experience.

With our custom tool, users can paste or import from Excel, review the data, and submit the invoice—including detailed distributions—through the API. It authenticates via OAuth and uses the ui_vendor_id to retrieve vendor info.

Has anyone tackled similar challenges or built tools around invoice entry and automation? I'd love to compare notes or hear how others have approached this.

Thanks,
Jun Espino
University Foundations – University of South Carolina

Chris Uzun

@Jun Espino
This seems like a fantastic idea, and addresses my primary issue with the current import function. As it stands now, it takes a lot more time to reformat the data to match their Excel template, rather than copying and pasting the GL distributions in manually, which you have to do anyways to organize the template in the way they have it.

Jun Espino

@Chris Uzun I am thinking of turning it into a Power Automate workflow and publishing it here for the community.