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How do we read the Merchant ID (MID) from the Clover Flex device?

I can see the MID from the developer sandbox account, when I setup a new merchant, but need a way to access it from an Android app as well on the Clover Flex device. Is there an API call to get that?
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You can use MerchantConnector#getMerchant() from clover-android-sdk, which has a getter for the merchant id on it. The repository also has some example connector usage.
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Thank you for the reply, however when trying to do what you suggested, I get an error, "does not have permission MERCHANT_R". I looked through the forums and then checked my sandbox, the app already has read/write permissions for the Merchant.

Found this ticket-

https://community.clover.com/questions/9233/sdk-forbiddenexception-status-code-403-app-doesnt.html

Seems like a lengthy workaround, before I try that, wanted to make sure if this is a known issue, or is there a better way of getting the Merchant ID?

For your reference I used the code sample available here:

https://github.com/clover/android-examples/blob/master/merchantexample/MerchantExample/src/main/java/com/clover/example/merchantexample/MainActivity.java

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