Merchant Data Export API Example (beta)

This endpoint is currently in beta. It is subject to change without notice.

Requirements

• Python 3.7.3 (backwards compatible with 2.7)
• pip
• Sandbox Clover developer account

Purpose

This endpoint will allow you to get bulk payment and order data from merchants that have installed your app. This service is not real-time, but will significantly reduce your chances of hitting an API limit restriction. Developers that require order and payment histories on merchants should integrate this service into their data collecting implementation.

Usage Notes

• Availability of the service:

  • US (https://api.clover.com) UTC: MON-FRI 10:00-15:00, SAT 10:00-15:00, SUN 10:00-15:00
  • EU (https://api.eu.clover.com) UTC: MON-FRI 01:00-05:00, SAT 02:00-05:00, SUN 02:00-06:00
  • Sandbox (https://apisandbox.dev.clover.com) is not limited to certain times.

  Outside of these times, we return a 503 with available hours.

• 1000 objects per file returned. If your response is more than 1000 objects we'll return an array of files to capture.

• Each export file is available for 24hrs after which we'll delete it.

• The max time range is 30 days. So if you want spans of data longer than that, you'll need to send a few requests.

• The server can only handle a few concurrent exports at a time You will need to wait for each export to finish before starting another one. The server will throw 503s when the concurrency threshold is reached.

How to use

You will do the POST call to /v3/merchants/{merchant_Id}/exports with the appropriate payload.

The payload includes:

• export_type (PAYMENTS or ORDERS)
• start_time (in UTC)
• end_time (in UTC)

  {
      "type": export_type,
      "startTime": start_time,
      "endTime": end_time
  }

The response of the exports object will include the export id for you to use.

{
  "id": "export_id",
  "type": "ORDERS",
  "status": "PENDING",
  "percentComplete": 0,
  "startTime": start_time,
  "endTime": end_time,
  "createdTime": created_time,
  "modifiedTime": modified_time,
  "merchantRef": {
    "id": "merchant_id"
  }
}

Once the call has been made, you will occasionally do a GET call to /v3/merchants/{merchant_Id}/exports/{export_Id} to check the status and percent complete.

STATUS:

• PENDING - In queue to be processed
• IN_PROGRESS - Being processed
• DONE - Process complete

{
  "status": "PENDING",
  "modifiedTime": modified_time,
  "merchantRef": {
    "id": "merchant_id"
  },
  "percentComplete": 0,
  "startTime": start_time,
  "createdTime": created_time,
  "endTime": end_time,
  "type": "ORDERS",
  "id": "export_id"
}

Once it is complete your export object will include urls to the files for you to download the export.

{
  "id": "export_id",
  "type": "ORDERS",
  "status": "DONE",
  "percentComplete": 100,
  "availableUntil": available_until_time,
  "startTime": start_time,
  "endTime": end_time,
  "createdTime": created_time,
  "modifiedTime": modified_time,
  "exportUrls": {
    "elements": [
      {
        "url": URL,
        "export": {
          "id": "export_id"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "merchantRef": {
    "id": "merchant_id"
  }
}