Recipes
Get Keys
Make sure you have your Velo Sandbox API Key and Secret
Note: whoever sets your sandbox payor account sets up your API credentials and shares them with you in some opsec appropriate manner
Create your 64Bit encoded key with them Tool to do the encoding: https://codebeautify.org/base64-encode
“veloapikeystring:veloapisecretstring”
in the top window, be sure to put the :
inbetween your key and secret, and that you don’t have any spaces before, after or inbetween
Copy your encoded key 64BITKEY
Tip: save it in the same place you’ve saved your API Key and Secret
Get Postman
Install Postman local client https://www.getpostman.com
Register & create a login
Click this link to install the Velo Recipe Collection https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/343005/SVmr1ML3
Setup Variables
Set global variables in postman
Setup Postman Variables
Set global variables in postman
- Click
Globals
Button - Create new Variables:
- Velo64BitAuthorization
- VeloBearerToken
- VeloPayorID
- Set Variable
Velo64BitAuthorization = "YOUR64BITKEY"
Set payorId
Fetch your bearer token
Success looks like this
Note: your token is good for 30 mins (1799 secs), and will persist for all API calls in the collection. After 30 minutes click ‘Send’ again.