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You can use https://sandbox.dev.clover.com/v3/merchants/{merchid}/orders/{orderid}/payments to add payments with external tender type such as 'external payment' or 'cash', but we currently don't allow you to add native credit or debit payments.

You can keep it as simple as just your tender and amount:

{ "tender": { "id": [your_tender_id] }, "amount": 100}

Specificity of your payment information will be determined by your own needs. We encourage you add tax information but these optional params are used in your own discretion:

{ 
   "tender": { "id": [tender_id] }, 
   "taxAmount": 100, 
   "note": "notes", 
   "tipAmount": 100, 
   "cashbackAmount": 100, 
   "cashTendered": 100, 
   "employee": { "id": [employee_id]}, 
   "clientCreatedTime": 1483228800000, 
    "lineItemPayments": [
    {
      "binName": "thisisthebin",
      "percentage": 100,
      "refunded": false,
      "id": [line_item_id]
    }
  ]
}

Hello,

 We are able to make the payment using Spreedly and the https://api.clover.com/v3/merchants/xxxxxx/orders/xxxxxx/payments endpoint. We are using the id of "External Payment" as tender. But accessing the Orders tab of the Clover dashboard the order is nowhere to be found. Accessing the Payments tab, we can see the payment and the associated correct order id. Clicking on the order id brings up the order details but clicking on the receipt link get us the error below. 1) How do we get the order to show up in the Orders tab and 2) why is no receipt generated.

// https://sandbox.dev.clover.com/tx/p/<... id="">

{ "message": "We couldn't find that receipt. The payment id was 'BT812VSTMH2VJ'" }

Thanks in advance.

"Specificity of your payment information will be determined by your own needs. We encourage you add tax information but these optional params are used in your own discretion." By these words I still in doubt. So if I don't need any other info from payment, my way of creating payment is correct and will not cause any problems later? I mean global process of merchant activities (problems with taxes or something like that).