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tomcottis asked bryanvargas commented

How to use merchant API keys

I have developed an ecommerce website for a local shop. Since they always have different products coming and going I have developed them a private portal on their subdomain so that they can create, update and delete products on their ecommerce site themselves without me maintaining it.

So far so good.

They have asked me to integrate their private portal with clover so that they can more easily access their clover inventory in order to put some of those products on their ecommerce site. I successfully achieved this in their portal using the sandbox REST API.

But going to production, I found that creating a "public" app is necessary, although you can make it private. Is there no way to just incorporate their inventory (read only) from clover into their private portal without creating an app on the clover market?

After some research I found some mention a Merchant API Key that is perfect for this. But how does it work and how do I implement this? Thanks!

Heard it here -> https://community.clover.com/questions/28657/test-clover-api-with-postman.html

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tomcottis answered bryanvargas commented

Actually, ignore the first link, this is the one I researched -> https://community.clover.com/questions/32063/is-a-private-custom-webapp-against-the-terms-of-se.html


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The merchant can give your their merchant generate token. You do not need a app for a one off merchant access.
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tomcottis avatar image tomcottis bryanvargas ♦♦ commented ·

Hey Bryan! Thanks for the answer. Where exactly do I find that token? Do I still need to go through the 0AUTH2.0 flow?

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You can review how to get a merchant token here: https://www.clover.com/en-US/help/set-up-api-tokens

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