The Interface Management modules in Interact SSAS consist of the GL Interface and the SSAXML API, each designed to streamline integration and ensure operational efficiency. The GL Interface automates journal entries for contributions, penalties, and benefits, providing flexible setup options, accurate GL account mapping, and a structured posting workflow. It fully integrates with contribution, benefit, and penalty modules and exports GL data in formats compatible with external accounting systems, supporting reconciliation, audit readiness, and financial compliance for Social Security Administrations.

The SSAXML API provides an open, RESTful framework for real-time interoperability between Interact SSAS and external systems. It offers role-based secure access, modular transaction types, standardized messaging formats, and broad coverage across 100+ social security operations, enabling third-party systems to interact seamlessly. Together, the GL Interface and SSAXML API make Interact SSAS a powerful platform for financial integration and digital connectivity, helping modernize and scale national social protection systems while ensuring accuracy, compliance, and interoperability.

GL Interface and Posting

Figure 1: GL Account Definition

Figure 2: GL Account Linking with Sickness Benefit

The GL Interface in Interact SSAS offers an automated, accurate, and configurable financial integration mechanism that ensures all social security-related financial transactions are properly recorded in the organization’s external accounting systems.

Key Capabilities:

• Automated Journal Entries: Generates trial and final General Ledger (GL) entries for contributions, penalties, and benefit payments, ensuring financial transparency.
• Flexible Setup:
  • Configurable chart of accounts structure (segments, separators, account types)
  • Definition of fiscal years and fiscal periods
  • Integration with any commercial GL system via exportable file templates or web services
• Accurate Mapping:
  • Links each social security transaction type (contributions, penalties, benefits) to corresponding GL accounts (assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses)
  • Ensures policy-specific GL account linking (e.g., different GL accounts for each benefit entitlement or penalty type)
• Trial and Final Posting Workflow:
  • Trial postings allow users to preview, verify, and adjust entries
  • Final postings lock entries for export or integration with external systems
• System Integration:
  • Fully integrated with Contribution Management, Benefit Processing, and Penalty Enforcement modules
  • Generates GL files in formats compatible with third-party accounting systems

This module supports streamlined reconciliation, audit readiness, and financial compliance for Social Security Administrations.

SSAXML API 

The SSAXML API is a robust web service framework that enables seamless interoperability between Interact SSAS and external systems through standardized, RESTful, and schema-based APIs.

Core Features:

• Open Integration Layer:
  • Based on RESTful architecture with full support for XML and JSON message formats
  • Designed to lower integration costs and enhance interoperability between SSA and third-party systems
• Modular API Framework:
  • Built around transaction types (e.g., Employer Registration, Contribution Filing, Benefit Claims)
  • Each transaction type is handled by a dedicated Web Service Server
• Secure & Configurable:
  • Role-based access with unique credentials for each Web Service Client (User ID, Password, Keys)
  • Includes policies, configurations, error handling codes, and XML schema definitions
• Extensive Coverage:
  • Supports 100+ transaction types ranging from KYC, Penalties, and Compliance to Medical Visits, Refunds, and Legal Actions
  • Enables third-party systems to Add, Update, Approve, or Delete entities using specific API calls
• Message Protocol:
  • Uses HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) with defined URI patterns
  • All messages conform to defined XML & JSON schema to ensure consistency and data integrity

The SSAXML API makes Interact SSAS a fully open and extensible system that can serve as a digital backbone for national Social Security infrastructure, while allowing integration with private or public service providers.

Conclusion:

Together, the GL Interface and SSAXML API modules of Interact SSAS empower Social Security Administrations with comprehensive tools for financial data integration and open service interoperability. These modules ensure financial accuracy, policy compliance, and real-time connectivity with internal and external stakeholders—supporting the modernization and scalability of social protection systems worldwide.