Applications keys are what uniquely identifies your services when integrating with the checkout platform. Service delivery and issue resolution are all dependent on these keys. The keys are categorized as below:

General Keys

Service Code

The service code is a unique identifier of your online service on our checkout platform. Operations tied to your service will be referenced/filtered by this code. See the section highlighted in yellow below:

Client Code

The client code is a unique identifier of your business on the checkout platform. Together both the service code & client code will help to find and resolve issues belonging to a service of the business. See the section highlighted in yellow below on the home page.

Express Checkout Keys

IV Key

The IV key is one of the pair of keys used during encryption. The string will be used as an initialization vector in the encryption to secure your requests.

Secret Key

The secret key is the second key in the pair used in the encryption of your checkout request. The string will be used as an encryption key to create strong secure encryption.

Access Key

The access key is used to validate your identity when you send a checkout request using the express checkout API.

Custom API Keys

Integrating to checkout through the Custom Checkout API allows you to create custom experiences for your online product. However, this has to be done securely. The keys described below are used to create authentication tokens to communicate with.

Client ID

The Client ID is used as one of the pair of credentials to create an authentication token with which requests will be authorized with.

Client Secret

The Client secret is used as one of the pair of credentials to create an authentication token with which requests will be authorized with.