logProcessingOfCustomerData

Add an entry to the customer data processing log.

According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), all processing done with the information of natural persons – viewing, creating, changing, deleting, transferring etc. — must be logged. API automatically writes log entries when you create, update or delete customer information. However, when you retrieve customer information from API, API does not know which records are actually used and for what purpose — therefore you are responsible for logging these processing activities yourself. You can always keep the log in the system that actually does the processing; but if that option is not available, use this API call to write log entries into Erply.

This API call must be called whenever you fetch, transfer or synchronize customer information with any of the following API calls:



If your account country is a non-EU country, error code 1149 is returned. However, if you are processing the information of EU citizens and need this functionality to be available, please notify customer support.

Input parameters

Parameter name Description Possible value Required
employeeID Employee doing the processing. If omitted, Erply assumes processing was done by the user who sent the API call. integer
customerIDs Multiple customer IDs, separated by commas, such as: 1,2,3,4,5. string yes
activityType Data processing type, can be "create", "read", "update" or "delete". string yes
description Data processing reason or purpose. Maximum 255 characters. string yes
fields

A comma-separated list of fields that were affected by processing, or were used in processing. Possible field names are:

  • name
  • phone
  • mobilePhone
  • fax
  • email
  • address
  • nationalIdentificationNumber
  • dateOfBirth
  • gender
  • bankAccount
  • employer
  • skype
  • payer
  • website
  • licencePlate (referring to the licence plate number of a vehicle)
  • VIN (referring to the VIN of a vehicle)
  • all

List all the fields that were used in processing — for example, "name,phone,address". If listing a specific set of fields is not applicable (for example when deleting a customer record), set fields="all".

 string
partnerKey Set this field if you have a partner key. The partner key helps to clarify the log entry, by indicating which application did the processing. string