POST /v1/terminal/connection_tokens

To connect to a reader the Stripe Terminal SDK needs to retrieve a short-lived connection token from Stripe, proxied through your server. On your backend, add an endpoint that creates and returns a connection token.

Servers

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
location String No

The id of the location that this connection token is scoped to. If specified the connection token will only be usable with readers assigned to that location, otherwise the connection token will be usable with all readers. Note that location scoping only applies to internet-connected readers. For more details, see the docs on scoping connection tokens.

expand[] Array No

Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.

How to start integrating

  1. Add HTTP Task to your workflow definition.
  2. Search for the API you want to integrate with and click on the name.
    • This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
  3. Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.