API Keys

When you sign up, you receive two API Keys: the live and test keys. These are immediately active and determine the environment used by your integration.

Ease of use

The Invoicetronic API has a single entry point: https://api.invoicetronic.com/v[version]/. Your integration seamlessly works with the test (sandbox) or live environment using the appropriate API key.

The API keys are easily distinguished by their prefixes: ik_live_ and ik_test_. Let's say we want to request the events log. From the command line using curl, we could do this:

Test Key

curl -u "ik_test_YOUR-API-KEY": https://api.invoicetronic.com/v1/log
# The colon prevents curl from asking for a password.

The command above pulls from the sandbox, as you can tell from the key prefix ik_test_.

Live Key

However:

curl -u "ik_live_YOUR-API-KEY": https://api.invoicetronic.com/v1/log
# The colon prevents curl from asking for a password.

Weill request the event log form the live environment, as you are now using the live (ik_live_) Key.