# Your other systems: read beside the books

URL: https://www.orla.finance/en/product/space/systems
Markdown twin of that page. Append `.md` to any Orla page URL to get one.

Keep running the tools you have. Orla reads them once a day, and the books stay the books.

## How it works

- **An agent on the system's page.** After you connect, an agent reads the system with small requests, asks which records matter with buttons, and proposes a map with a few real rows.
- **Nothing syncs before you approve.** Approve and sync starts the daily read, and Set aside asks for another map. If the system changes its format, the sync stops and a corrected map waits for you.
- **It never sees the key.** The key or the integration user's password stays encrypted in Orla. The agent never asks for one, never writes to the system and never moves money.
- **Beside the books, not in them.** Customers, deals, orders and people sit beside the books and on the contact they belong to. A figure from a system is what that system says, never a transaction.

## Questions

**Our ERP sits behind a firewall. Can it connect?** Yes. A small open program, orla-connect, runs on a computer next to the system and relays only to the one address you approve. Nothing in your network is opened to the internet.

**Does Orla keep sensitive fields?** No. Secrets, dates of birth, national ids and bank details are never stored, even when the system holds them.