Generating a Bearer Token for Authentication

Use the information in this section to generate a bearer token for authentication. A unique bearer token is required to authenticate each payment transaction request when the app is in Cloud mode.

Generate a Bearer Token for Authentication

You must generate a new bearer token before sending each transaction request.

IMPORTANT

Meta keys are not supported for bearer token generation.

Follow these steps to generate a bearer token:

Create a P12 certificate for the transacting merchant ID (MID).

Construct a message using a JSON web Token (JWT) by following the steps shown in the

Getting Started with REST

.

Set the

digest

field (message body) in the JWT as blank.

Use the JWT as the bearer token to authenticate the payment transaction request.

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