Use the Ecommerce API tutorials to handle payment flows, including charges, customers, refunds, and orders. The Ecommerce API tutorials are written for the sandbox environment. Once your app is complete, switch it to use the production base URLs. For optimal sandbox testing, Clover recommends using the provided test cards instead of live cards. This practice prevents potential data loss and ensures secure, effective payment integration testing.

Sandbox and production URLs

Before you begin

1. Decide whether you are building a single merchant solution, for example, a simple Clover iframe integration to accept online payments or an app integration for multiple merchants or businesses, such as an ecommerce store to take and manage orders.
2. Review the Ecommerce data model to understand the access points for retrieving and working with data related to the payment flow.
3. Familiarize yourself with Ecommerce app permissions and permission sets.
4. Understand when and how to use API keys and OAuth tokens for ecure ecommerce, including public and private keys, and the OAuth expiring access_token.
5. Review to understand when and how to use the public and private keys or the OAuth expiring access_token.
6. Review information on tokenization, as this is an important aspect of taking card-not-present (CNP) transactions on ecommerce websites.

Get started

Use the following Ecommerce APIs to handle the payment flow: