Guides

Scan and price a product from a photo

Use the vision endpoint to identify a product from a phone photo and match it against a merchant’s live inventory and pricing.

Send WhatsApp receipts and purchase orders

Send pre-approved receipt and purchase-order templates over WhatsApp using AskBiz’s Meta Business API connection.

Ask business-intelligence questions

Get grounded, plain-English answers about sales, margin, and stock — either from a connected AskBiz account or your own data context.

Connect to a merchant’s account with scoped permissions

Request access to a specific merchant’s inventory, have them approve it with a real consent screen, and use it across your other API calls.

Bill a merchant on your behalf

Create a billing-on-behalf-of charge request, collected through a hosted Stripe Checkout page — no payment credentials touch your server.

Subscribe to real-time webhooks

React to sale.created, purchase_order.received, and stock.low events instead of polling — set up delivery, verify signatures, and test before going live.

Handle errors and retries safely

The exact error shapes every endpoint returns, and how to use Idempotency-Key so a network retry never double-charges or double-sends.

Organize keys with Apps

Group your API keys under a named, brandable App so merchants see who’s asking on the consent screen instead of an unbranded request.

Test the API from the interactive console

Fire a real request at any core endpoint with your own key from the dashboard and see the actual response before writing any code.

Build safely with a sandbox (test-mode) key

Create a test key and get realistic responses from scan, whatsapp/send, and charges with no real debit, message, or charge — then switch to a live key when you’re ready.