if your AbleCommerce store had a web api...

[Logan Rhodehamel]

What would you do with it? Are there operations you would like to script? Do you exchange data with other systems that could be automated? Do you have some idea for a mobile application?

[NC Software]

1) Create mobile applications that connect to the store for management (merchants)
2) Create a storefront that works via secure web services (less important now that you're supporting a mobile storefront)
3) Integrate with my apps (other products) (win, web, mobile) to purchase products directly from within the app (in-app purchasing is common now in mobile)

[kastnerd]

Integrate with other apps.
PHPBB messageboard
netsuite.com
blog app.

[mike92117]

This is useful for various post-order processing actions. Like sending order data to a warehouse. Emailing reports using console apps on scheduled tasks that interrogate the shop data through an api. It might also be used to support functionality not currently supported on the live site.

[NC Software]

One thing I've always wanted was for my drop-shippers (resellers) to be able to query their own info, handle their own shipping processing (tracking number entry), query pull sheets, etc. Having an API would allow this type of system to be built.

[corgalore]

We typically install Able as a child application of our main website framework. One thing I need to do frequently is pull product data into the parent site to display in home page slideshows, etc. I usually build a web API for myself in order to get the job done.