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- A customer with an existing Betfair account visits vendorapp.com and wants to sign up for the vendor application.
- The customer wants to purchase a 12 month subscription to vendorapp, so they purchase this from vendorapp.com.
- vendorapp.com then call the Account API-NG operation getApplicationSubscriptionToken, passing in their Application Key, a valid session token (to prove that they own that app key) and the length of the subscription required.
- Betfair return to the vendor a Subscription Token of the form ABCD-EFGH-IJKL.
- The subscription is then activated by calling activateApplicationSubscription token, passing in the subscription token and a valid session token for the customer (in the X-Authentication header).
- The activateApplicationSubscription service should be used in conjunction with the interactive login method. See sample code here
PLEASE NOTE - the interactive login method should include your Application Key and will return a sessionToken with the error PENDING_AUTH prior to the customer activating their subscription via activateApplicationSubscription Once activated, the customer will be able to make requests to API-NG using your Application Key.