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Overview

To authenticate with Recharge, you need two key pieces of information:

1. API Token - A key that grants secure access to the API, enabling authorized applications to interact with Recharge resources and services.

This guide will walk you through generating the API Token within Recharge.

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Prerequisites:

• You must have an account with Recharge.

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Instructions:

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Step 1: Generating Your API Token

1. Login to the Recharge merchant Portal.
2. Navigate to Tools & apps and click API tokens.

3. On the following page, click Create an API Token to generate a new token for your store.

4. Use the Details fields to set a name and contact email for the token.

5. Select No access, Read access, or Read and Write access to set the scope permissions you’d like to grant the token.
   Some of the permissions are only accessible to specific plans i.e Pro or Pro + Retain plans.
6. Click Save to create your token.

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Step 3: Enter credentials in the Connect UI

Once you have the API Token:

1. Open the form where you need to authenticate with Recharge.
2. Enter the API Token in the designated field.
3. Submit the form, and you should be successfully authenticated.

You are now connected to Recharge.