When your integration works end to end in the sandbox, you're ready to go live. Going live means completing the pre-production checklist, switching to production credentials and the production host, and boarding your first real business.

Before you go live

• You've created a business, completed its requirements, and driven it to ACTIVE in the sandbox.
• You've exercised the failure paths: a KYB rejection and a duplicate externalId, and you resolve each from the response.
• You set a unique externalId on every create and rely on it for safe retries. See Idempotent Requests.
• You read a business back to track status; you do not depend on webhooks (there are none).
• You store each returned id (bus_, own_, ba_, loc_, and the rest) and your own externalId for reconciliation.
• Every owner and signer has a primary ID (SSN or ITIN) plus a secondary government ID, and exactly one is the control person.

Switch to production

Point your integration at the production host and send your production x-api-key:

curl -X POST https://api.prioritycommerce.com/v1/businesses \
  -H "x-api-key: <your-production-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "externalId": "live-merchant-001", "legalName": "Downtown Coffee LLC" }'

The sandbox host is https://sandbox-api.prioritycommerce.com; production is https://api.prioritycommerce.com. The request and response shapes are identical; only the host and credentials change.

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PENDING-PUBLISH

The production-credential process (how a partner requests production access and the approval steps before the first live business) is pending the boarding go-live guide. Confirm the exact steps and any approval gates before publish.

Board your first live business

1. Create the business and its owners, bank account, address, and location on the production host.
2. Enable Accept Payments and read the business back to confirm missingFields and missingDocuments are empty.
3. Submit for underwriting and track the business to ACTIVE by re-reading it.
4. Once the service is ACTIVE, the business can begin accepting payments.

See also

• Sandbox testing: validate the full flow before you go live
• Create a business: the composite create you'll run in production
• Status lifecycle: how a business reaches ACTIVE
• Getting Started: access, what onboarding supports, and your first call