Connect Staple to the platforms your customers run on, or embed it inside your product. The Technology Ecosystem is where platform and product companies plug Staple's first-mile document processing into their world, so the data their customers depend on arrives structured, verified, and audit-ready from day one. When you build on SAP ERP or Yonyou, the hard part was never the software. It was the invoices, receipts, and fapiao arriving in a hundred formats that have to be clean before the system can use them. Staple is the partner both ecosystems trust to handle that first mile.

Two Ways To Connect

There are two depths of connection, and the right one depends on whether you are extending a platform or building a product. Technology Partners add document-to-data processing that makes their platform do more, through supported integrations, ERP, tax, cloud, and procurement systems that Staple connects to with certified connectors and no middleware. Embedded and ISV Partners go a level deeper and build Staple's engine inside their own product, taking a combined solution to market under their own brand. One integrates alongside Staple; the other builds Staple in. Both draw on the same underlying platform and trust layer, so the difference is packaging and ownership, not capability.

The Problem The Ecosystem Solves

Every enterprise platform inherits the same weakness at its edge: it can only act on data once that data is clean, and documents do not arrive clean. They arrive as scans, photographs, emails, dot-matrix prints, and structured e-invoices, in 300 or more languages, with stamps, handwriting, and inconsistent tables. Turning that into reliable, validated data is a specialised, never-finished job, extraction models, tamper detection, reconciliation, tax-authority validation, and residency controls, that most platforms should not try to own. The ecosystem exists so they do not have to: Staple carries the first mile, and the partner's platform or product does what it is best at. The result is a division of labor the end customer never has to think about: they see one system that simply handles their documents, while under the surface the platform and Staple each own the part they are strongest at.

Recognized In The Ecosystem

Staple plugs into SAP Concur across both Expense and Invoice, into SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba, and into Yonyou BIP and OA for enterprises across Asia Pacific, and it reaches other environments through Oracle, Coupa, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and native API and agentic integrations. The data landing in your customers' system arrives structured, verified, and audit-ready. That track record is recognized with the SAP Concur Award 2026, SAP Innovation Partner 2023, and SAP Distinguished Partner 2022, and Staple operates as an accredited PEPPOL Access Point across 60 countries.

Trust That Travels Across The Integration

What distinguishes an ecosystem built on Staple from one built on a generic extraction tool is that the data can carry its evidence with it. Every output can hold a Metastructured Data envelope, a signed record of provenance, confidence, and residency bound to the value itself, so a value that crosses from Staple into your platform and onward to your customer's auditor can be verified at each step without calling back to Staple. For a platform in a regulated market, that is a property worth putting in its own pitch.

Which Route Is Right

If your value is your platform and you want clean data flowing into it, join as a Technology Partner and integrate alongside Staple. If your value is your own software product and you want to sell document processing as part of it, join as an Embedded or ISV Partner and build Staple in. Many companies begin as a technology partner and later embed, and the programs are designed to progress from one to the other rather than forcing a choice up front. Either way, the same enablement, security model, and joint governance apply.

What Every Ecosystem Partner Gets

Integration and security documentation, a defined support and responsibility model, deal registration and co-sell across AWS, SAP ERP, and Microsoft, and joint roadmap coordination so the integration keeps working as both products evolve. Partners build on the same platform that runs for Fortune 100 companies and global institutions at a 100 percent deployment success rate, so what you connect to or embed is the full product, not a limited edition.

Scope

Staple handles the first mile and provides the engine, connectors, and trust layer. It does not replace the platforms it connects to, and in the embedded model it does not front-end your users or own your customer relationship. Choose Technology Partners to integrate, or Embedded and ISV Partners to embed.

Become A Staple Partner

Tell us about your platform or product and the connection you have in mind, and we will align you to the right program with enablement, commercial terms, and technical support. Become a Partner or book a demo.