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Learn to build on AskBiz

Four tracks, beginner to advanced, plus stand-alone lessons on the things reference docs don’t cover well — project tutorials and the reasoning behind design decisions like billing and idempotency.

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Learning tracks

Beginner4 steps

Foundations

Get a working API key, understand authentication, and make your first safe-to-retry call.

  1. 1Quickstart — Create an account and make your first call in a few minutes.
  2. 2Authentication — How x-api-key works, and account-mode vs generic-mode keys.
  3. 3Build with a sandbox key — Realistic responses with no real debit, message, or charge.
  4. 4Errors and retries — Every error shape, and how Idempotency-Key keeps retries safe.
Beginner3 steps

Core endpoints

The three endpoints most integrations are actually built on.

  1. 1Scan and price products — Turn a phone photo into a name, price, and stock level.
  2. 2Send WhatsApp messages — Receipts and purchase orders over Meta’s Business API.
  3. 3Ask business questions — Grounded, plain-English answers about sales and stock.
Intermediate3 steps

Merchants & money

Act on a merchant’s behalf, and collect payment for it.

  1. 1Connect to a merchant — Scoped access, approved on a real consent screen.
  2. 2Bill a merchant — Billing-on-behalf-of via a hosted Stripe Checkout page.
  3. 3Understanding billing & pricing — The wallet model, per-call pricing, and where currencies diverge.
Advanced3 steps

Going to production

What changes between a working prototype and something merchants depend on.

  1. 1Subscribe to webhooks — React to events instead of polling — with signature verification.
  2. 2Organize keys with Apps — A named, brandable identity merchants see on consent screens.
  3. 3Production readiness checklist — Idempotency, rate limits, monitoring, and key hygiene before launch.

Lessons

12 min read

Build your first integration in 15 minutes

A start-to-finish project: get a sandbox key, scan a product photo, and handle both a catalog match and a miss — with real code, not fragments.

9 min read

Understanding AskBiz billing and pricing

The wallet model in full: what’s billed per call, what’s covered by your plan quota, and the three places currency conventions genuinely differ.

10 min read

Production readiness checklist

Eight concrete things to verify before you point real merchant traffic at your integration — each with the exact code or setting to check.