Going Live

Everything you build runs on UAT first. Production is switched on after we have reviewed your implementation. Four steps, and most of the waiting is on our side.

Managed onboarding

Email dev-support@chaiz.com or your account manager. We set up your account with:

  • Branding at checkout: your logo, primary color, and button style.
  • Your catalog: which plans, durations, and payment terms you sell.
  • Rate limits for your expected volume.
  • Attribution: your utm_campaign and, if you want one, your postback. See Postback and attribution.

You receive your UAT key now. Your production key is issued when sign-off passes in step 3.

What we need from you:

Item Why
Signed agreement Before we issue your keys
W-9 Before the first payout
A technical contact For incidents and change notices
Logo, primary color, button style Co-branded checkout
Campaign name Your utm_campaign
Postback URL, method, and security option Optional. See Postback and attribution
Your servers' egress IPs, or a fixed User-Agent Only if you call the production API from your servers. See Authentication
Build and test on UAT

Work through this list before you ask for sign-off:

  • Search by VIN, by plate, and by make, model, and year. Handle the empty result and the coverage limit errors. See Restrictions and limitations.
  • Latency: a 30-second timeout, a visible loading state, no retries on slow responses.
  • Handoff: planCheckoutUrl and planSummaryUrl used exactly as returned, your campaign in tracking.queryParams on every search. See Getting credit for the sale.
  • Your results page against the UI Requirements, and your detail page too if you built one.
  • A test purchase on UAT with the test vehicle from the Quickstart.
  • Postback, if you want one: agree the URL, method, and security option with us. UAT does not send postbacks, so you test it right after launch (step 4).
Sign-off

Send us the URL of your results page and, if you built one, your detail page, plus one test click through to checkout. We review them against the UI Requirements, confirm your campaign arrives on your searches, and read the legal lines on any detail page you built. If something needs changing, you get a short list.

When it passes, we issue your production key and confirm by email. Swap the base URL to https://api.chaiz.com and swap in the production key. The code does not change.

After launch
  • For the first 48 hours we watch the traffic with you.
  • If you have a postback, make one real purchase through your own link and check that the postback arrives. Tell us the order and we cancel and refund it.
  • Sales show up on your postback shortly after they complete, on your Mixpanel dashboard in near real time, and on the monthly report.
  • Changes to hosts, fields, or behavior are announced by email to your technical contact.
  • UAT can be unavailable for maintenance without notice. Production is not affected.
  • Anything else: dev-support@chaiz.com.
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