Using REST API for simple internal integration

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awaegel asked Aug 9, '23 markjay sent 4 days ago

Using REST API for simple internal integration

Hello,

I'm veteran web developer who's new to Clover, and have a question about how to access our merchant data via the REST API.

The use case is querying Clover data from our website's administrative backend in order to generate on-demand reports of recent sales and current inventory levels.

There's seems to be a way to generate an API token directly from my Merchant Dashboard screen, but it seems that can no longer be used to access production data.

Instead, the docs (https://docs.clover.com/docs/using-oauth-20) direct me to set up a developer account and develop a Clover 'app', which I then install on my Merchant account. We then use standard OAuth techniques to obtain an authorization code and trade it for an access token that we can use to make an API request.

This basically makes sense, but I'm confused about taking this into production - It seems like I need to publish this 'app' in the Clover App marketplace, then connect it to my production account. Naturally I'm reluctant to do this, as we would never ever want any other Merchant to access this app.

Is this the only way for me to access my production data? All of the API documentation seems to be for the use case of Developers publishing Apps into the Marketplace, and while I'm willing to do this, it just seems like the wrong path.

Thanks for any feedback!

I've read previous posts on this forum from a few years back and it seems like I'm not the only one who's confused.

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tomdanny commented · Mar 29 at 10:52 PM

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tomdanny commented · Mar 30 at 11:29 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-08-09T15:27:55Z

parquet76 answered Aug 9, '23

Clover discourages the use of merchant tokens, but they are perfectly fine to use in cases like this and will work on production. You can easily test this to verify what I am saying.

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Answer 2 · 2023-08-09T17:20:40Z

awaegel answered Aug 9, '23 akr commented Oct 27, '23

Thanks - However I get "401 Unauthorized" when I try one of these tokens with the production API endpoints, so this might not work anymore.

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parquet76 commented · Aug 09, 2023 at 06:00 PM

Are you making the call directly from a web browser? If you are, you can't, you need to proxy the call via your server. Otherwise, you are either passing the token incorrectly or are using an improper merchant id (13 char alpha-numeric, check the URL in your dashboard for the correct id)

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awaegel parquet76 commented · Aug 09, 2023 at 06:22 PM

I'm using curl from a command line like this:

curl --request GET --url 'https://api.clover.com/v3/merchants/<13-char-id>'  --header 'accept: application/json'  --header 'authorization: Bearer <api-token-long-uuid>'

I've set up a Clover sandbox developer account and this scheme works perfectly there (once I learned where to find the actual merchant id).

Will continue to dig and post what I find; appreciate the suggestions.

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jasondean awaegel commented · Aug 11, 2023 at 07:15 PM

Are you using Windows CLI with that curl command?

I had to use PowerShell 7 to get the command line to work (and scripted to simply pull data using Task Scheduler).

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