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Reuse of Clover devices?

For designing my database model properly, I'd like to know if a Clover device in production might change the merchant? What happens to Clover devices if a business is closed? If a change to another merchant is possible, would it get a new device id like ?
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If the merchant changes so will the device ID. The serial number (Build.getSerial()) may stay the same. If you use the serial you'd want to use the (merchant,serial) tuple as the unique identifier.
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Are you sure that device ID changes? I disassociated one devkit from a merchant and associated it to another merchant. When I query devices of the new merchant, I see this devkit with the old device ID. Or is it only in sandbox like this? Regarding the tuple: I guess merchantID is more stable than merchant name and should be preferred?

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