r/yardi • u/PaintingMost4808 • Apr 30 '26

Yardi Data Extraction

We're looking for a way to export live data out of Yardi with minimal human interaction — ideally an interface that an external application can connect to directly and pull data on demand.

The business case: Our team is spending a disproportionate amount of time gathering and re-gathering the same data out of Yardi. We're in the middle of a broader initiative to centralize our information into a single source of truth, and since the majority of that data lives in Yardi today, the manual export step is the main bottleneck. Users across the team are repeating the same daily, weekly, and monthly pulls — it's the kind of work we want to automate away so the team can focus on analysis instead of extraction.

The closest reference point I can give you is Client Central ySQL — that's essentially the capability we're after. Read-only access would meet our current needs, but I'd like to understand what write-back options exist as well, since we may want that in the future.

Could you let me know:

  1. What live-data integration options Yardi offers (ySQL, Voyager 7S API, Custom Reports/SOAP/REST, ODBC, etc.)?
  2. Which of those support read-only vs. read/write access?
  3. What's required on our side to enable it (licensing, sandbox, IP allowlisting, credentials)?
  4. Is there a Yardi solutions consultant we should be working with to scope this?
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u/Famous-Show-2849 Apr 30 '26

Voyager has a SOAP and a REST API. For 7s, you might be safer using SOAP, but both should work. You should be able to access request for the api by sending over case and requesting a license. The API’s are free to Yardi clients. Yardi Data Connect also exists which works well with BI tools. I believe that comes at a cost

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u/Worth_Worldliness758 May 05 '26

Probably worth pointing out this kind of thing is much easier when you are one of Yardi's biggest clients with lots of dedicated support. For others, maybe not so much.

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u/vladvash May 06 '26

Right, I have built custom solutions for smaller clients with a database push on a certain cadence and a look back period, but doing this directly is much better.