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title: "How to Build Low-Code API Integrations for Enterprise Apps Using Okta"
description: "Okta’s API Integration Actions let independent software vendors build Provisioning, Entitlements, and Universal Logout integrations in the Okta Integration Network using Workflows, Okta’s low-code builder. The approach maps existing APIs directly to Okta action contracts, allowing developers to avoid building and maintaining a SCIM server while translating API calls into formats Okta can consume. The guide walks through creating an OIN integration, configuring tenant and authentication mappings, adding API Integration Action components, building and validating flows, and submitting them through the OIN Wizard. It also explains how to create and update an org-only test instance before review, noting that submission changes do not automatically update an existing test instance for security reasons."
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# How to Build Low-Code API Integrations for Enterprise Apps Using Okta

[Okta](https://yomu.fyi/company/okta) · Emily Wendell · May 12, 2026

**Type:** Tutorial

## Summary

Okta’s API Integration Actions let independent software vendors build Provisioning, Entitlements, and Universal Logout integrations in the Okta Integration Network using Workflows, Okta’s low-code builder. The approach maps existing APIs directly to Okta action contracts, allowing developers to avoid building and maintaining a SCIM server while translating API calls into formats Okta can consume. The guide walks through creating an OIN integration, configuring tenant and authentication mappings, adding API Integration Action components, building and validating flows, and submitting them through the OIN Wizard. It also explains how to create and update an org-only test instance before review, noting that submission changes do not automatically update an existing test instance for security reasons.

## Context

Independent software vendors need to build Provisioning, Entitlements, and Universal Logout integrations for the Okta Integration Network, but API integrations can otherwise require protocol knowledge and a maintained SCIM server. The process also requires testing an integration in an Okta org before submitting it for review and publication.

## Approach / What changed

Use Okta Workflows and API Integration Actions to map existing API calls to Okta action contracts. The process covers creating an OIN integration, configuring tenant and authentication mappings, adding action components, building and validating flows, selecting flows in the OIN Wizard, creating a test instance, and submitting the integration for review.

## Takeaways

- API Integration Actions use Workflows to map existing APIs directly to Okta action contracts for Provisioning, Entitlements, and Universal Logout integrations.
- Test instances are available only in the builder’s Okta org, and Okta admins see the same authorization experience during testing.
- Changes made in OIN Manager, such as modified scopes or integration names, do not automatically update an existing test instance; the test-instance creation process must be repeated.

**Tags:** [API](https://yomu.fyi/topic/api), [Automation](https://yomu.fyi/topic/automation), [Okta](https://yomu.fyi/topic/okta)

- Source: [Okta](https://developer.okta.com/blog/2026/05/12/low-code-api-integration)
- Source URL: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2026/05/12/low-code-api-integration
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-09T08:43:15.576Z

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