Make Your First API Call

Before accessing Sandbox to make your first API call, you should contact TabaPay to get set up with your specific use case.

A TabaPay Representative will assist you in the boarding process, and you should receive an email invitation to a designated cloud storage folder with information that will allow you access to Sandbox.

Access to Sandbox

Once you gather your Sandbox information including the Bearer Token, ClientID, and FQDN, you can make your first API call.

1. Follow along the recipe, 1. Make Your First API Call - Retrieve Client in any of the examples in JavaScript, Python, and cURL.

2. The two steps in the recipe will guide you to complete three actions:
   1. Insert your Bearer Token in place of the <<<<user>>>>, or *Redacted* placeholder.
   2. Replace the FQDN with your TabaPay approved URL.
   3. Swap out ClientID with your Sandbox ClientID.

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Sandbox vs Production ClientID

This is a guide for Sandbox only. You should not be using your production ClientID at this point.

Test in Postman

You can download Postman, and follow the steps to replace the credentials to get started.

To start testing in Postman, replace each of the following variables under your TabaPay Sandbox Environment. These values should be provided to your administrator by TabaPay when sending over Sandbox credentials. To ensure you have the TabaPay Sandbox Environment selected, complete the following in Postman:

1. At the top right corner select No Environment to open the dropdown.
2. Select TabaPay Sandbox Environment.
3. Fill in the following information with your credentials you received from TabaPay.
   1. FQDN: Fill in FQDN with Sandbox URL you're testing.
   2. Bearer Token: Fill in your bearertoken credential for authorization in making a successful API request.
   3. ClientID: Your unique 22-character string issued during onboarding. This value is used in your TabaPay API request endpoints.

Note: If you did not receive any of the previous credentials, you can Contact Support, or email [email protected].

Send Your Request - Retrieve Client

If you are working in Postman, go to Retrieve Client, otherwise finalize your Retrieve Client request. For field descriptions, refer to Retrieve Client.

1. Once you set up your request, you can send it to get a successful response!

Congrats! You've made your first API call!

In the response you should find a few of the following values:

1. A successful Status Code.
2. Approved networks for push, or pull.
3. Any push or pull limits tied to your client account.

For any general API questions you can post here on the TabaPay Community Forum.

For questions, contact TabaPay Support, or email [email protected].

TabaPay Recipes

See the TabaPay Recipes for more examples and use cases.

Note: For API requests sent with a request body the payload should be formatted in compact JSON. Examples shown may be formatted with a human readable format.