Setup the Tally Platform API via Postman
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this documentation guides you through setting up and using the tally platform apis via postman it provides step by step instructions for configuring your environment, authentication, and executing api requests prerequisites the postman application must be installed on your device if it's not installed, download from download postman | get started for free you will need the tally api file, as well as the environment and user files provided by our team setup instructions import files open postman and click import in the top left corner click on select files and navigate to the downloaded collection and environment files confirm import when prompted environment configuration after importing, locate the environment dropdown menu in the top right corner and select your default environment this environment contains predefined variables required for api execution authentication click on tally platform services in the collections panel navigate to the authorization tab and enter your client id and client secret reach out to our team if you have questions about authentication scroll to the bottom and click get new access token wait a few seconds while the authentication token is generated click use token when prompted authentication is now complete, and you can begin using the apis if the token expires, repeat the steps to generate a new token api structure and variables environment variables key variables are preconfigured in the environment base url accountnumber various required ids variable management when first imported, environment variable values are blank by default variables are automatically populated as you execute api calls examples running "enroll member" will populate the accountnumber variable running "create member address" will populate the memberaddressid variable you can also manually set values if needed api organization the api collection is organized into functional folders for example, transactions contains earnings (stay/partner/bonus) get transactions get transaction groups cancel transaction you can also browse our api reference documentation here use the apis expand the relevant folder in the collection select the api you wish to execute review any required parameters or body content click send to execute the request review the response in the lower panel