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Difference between Device ID and Serial Number?

What are the use cases for device ID vs serial number? Do I need the device ID for anything if I have the serial number?

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David Marginian Deactivated answered sanjanaraj commented

It really depends on what you are doing. If you want to for example use our REST API to obtain a device by id (e.g):

https://sandbox.dev.clover.com/v3/merchants/mId/devices/deviceId

then you will need the device id. To obtain the device id you can use the REST API as well:

https://sandbox.dev.clover.com/v3/merchants/mId/devices


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Thank you! Could you provide some use cases for when I would need to obtain a device by its device id? If it is just a unique identifier, can I use the serial number instead?

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David Marginian avatar image David Marginian ♦♦ sanjanaraj commented ·

One example, if you are using the Remote Pay Cloud SDK, you connect to the device via device id, not serial number.

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I see, thanks for the help!

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