Flow1st Integration Overview

This integration allows the Partner to place orders on the Flow1st Platform.

The steps in this integration style involve:

Configuring the Partner Profile and Configuring API Credentials
Configuring Webhooks
Implementing the Authentication - Generate Access Token API for authentication purposes
Implementing List Product Catalog API that Customers will choose Products from
Implementing the User Validation API
Implementing the Order Completion API
Receiving the Order Complete Webhook Request to process concluded orders

Pre Requisites

These are the pre-requisites that are needed from the Flow1st Partner

A list of email addresses that would need to be invited to the Flow1st Admin Console
A communication method to be set up: Slack is preferred, but alternative communication tools (WeChat, Teams, Telegram, etc.) can be used as well

Checklist

The following table is a checklist that can be used for tracking progress or for project management purposes. The completion time of a project is largely dependent on

Whether a Flow1st partner already supports user validation in their UX flows
Whether a Flow1st partner has an easily extendable orders/fulfilments architecture

Estimated Time (in days)	Team Members	Task
~0.5	Flow1st Partner	All supplied email addresses will receive a welcome email from Carry1st. The steps in this email need to be completed to complete registration
~0.5	Flow1st Partner	The Flow1st Partner will Configure their API Credentials to use for the integration.
~2	Flow1st Partner’s Development Team	Implement the Authentication - Generate Access Token
~1	Flow1st Partner	The List Product Catalog API needs to be integrated to list Products to purchase
~2	Flow1st Partner’s Development Team	Implement the User Validation API
~2	Flow1st Partner’s Development Team	Implement the Order Completion API
~2	Flow1st Partner’s Development Team	Configuring Webhooks in order for the Flow1st Partner’s server to acknowledge the Flow1st API about order completion
~1	Flow1st Partner and Flow1st Implementation Manager	Do a full end to end test Order in the Sandbox/Staging Environments
~2	Flow1st Partner	Replicate the staging configuration for production.
~0.5	Flow1st Partner	Top-up the production account balance
~0.5	Flow1st Partner or Flow1st Implementation Manager	Do a UAT production test using this configuration.
Total: ~14		Go Live!