Authenticating
Your application needs to connect and authenticate with the API. You will receive a username and password from Paxon to use with the API to get the token and the expiration date of this token. Please use this expiration date to cache the token locally to minimize token requests for better performance.
Retrieve Settings & Configuration
When making API calls, you are often required to provide the correct IDs for configuration entities such as orderTypes. These IDs can be obtained by using the ShopApi v2 GET settings/get method. We recommend caching this data locally and refreshing it daily. The returned settings include the IDs and names of the following entities:
Checklist
Below is a handy checklist you can use after or during development of your application:
Firewall Rules
We enabled Firewall Rules for most of the OWASP CRS Ruleset. See https://coreruleset.org/ for details.
Stock Levels
Stock concepts