The Rebilly API is built on HTTP and is RESTful. It has predictable resource URLs and returns HTTP response codes to indicate errors. It also accepts and returns JSON in the HTTP body. Use your favorite HTTP/REST library in your programming language when using this API, or use one of the Rebilly SDKs, which are available in PHP and JavaScript.

Every action in the Rebilly UI is supported by an API which is documented and available for use, so that you may automate any necessary workflows or processes. This API reference documentation contains the most commonly integrated resources.

This topic describes the different forms of authentication that are available in the Rebilly API, and how to use them.

Rebilly offers four forms of authentication: secret key, publishable key, JSON Web Tokens, and public signature key.

• Secret API key: Use to make requests from the server side. Never share these keys. Keep them guarded and secure.
• Publishable API key: Use in your client-side code to tokenize payment information.
• JWT: Use to make short-life tokens that expire after a set period of time.

To create or manage API keys, select one of the following:

• Use the Rebilly UI: see Manage API keys
• Use the Rebilly API: see the API key operations.

For more information on API keys, see API keys.

Rebilly follows the error response format proposed in RFC 7807, which is also known as Problem Details for HTTP APIs. As with any API responses, your client must be prepared to gracefully handle additional members of the response. The following section describes common error types.

Rebilly provides a JavaScript SDK and a PHP SDK to help interact with the Rebilly API. However, no SDK is required to use the API.

Rebilly also provides FramePay, a client-side iFrame-based solution, to help create payment tokens while minimizing PCI DSS compliance burdens and maximizing your customization ability. FramePay interacts with the payment tokens creation operation.

For installation and usage instructions, see SDKs. All JavaScript SDK code examples are included in the API reference documentation.

For installation and usage instructions, see SDKs. All SDK code examples are included in the API reference documentation. To use them, you must configure the $client as follows:

$client = new Rebilly\Client([
    'apiKey' => 'YourApiKeyHere',
    'baseUrl' => 'https://api.rebilly.com',
]);

Rebilly provides collections filtering. Use the ?filter parameter on collections to define which records should be shown in the response.

Format description:

• Fields and values in the filter are separated with :: ?filter=firstName:John.

• Sub-fields are separated with .: ?filter=billingAddress.country:US.

• Multiple filters are separated with ;: ?filter=firstName:John;lastName:Doe.
  They are joined with AND logic. Example: firstName:John AND lastName:Doe.

• To use multiple values, use , as values separators: ?filter=firstName:John,Bob.
  Multiple values specified for a field are joined with OR logic. Example: firstName:John OR firstName:Bob.

• To negate the filter, use !: ?filter=firstName:!John.

• To negate multiple values, use: ?filter=firstName:!John,!Bob. This filter rule excludes all Johns and Bobs from the response.

• To use range filters, use: ?filter=amount:1..10.

• To use a gte (greater than or equals) filter, use: ?filter=amount:1... This also works for datetime-based fields.

• To use a lte (less than or equals) filter, use: ?filter=amount:..10. This also works for datetime-based fields.

• To create specified values lists and use them in filters, use: ?filter=firstName:@yourListName.
  You can also exclude list values: ?filter=firstName:!@yourListName.
  Use value lists to compare against a list of data when setting conditions for rules or binds, or applying filters to data table segments. Commonly used lists contain values related to conditions that target specific properties such as: customers, transactions, or BINs.

• Datetime-based fields accept values formatted using RFC 3339. Example: ?filter=createdTime:2021-02-14T13:30:00Z.

Rebilly provides the ability to pre-load additional objects with a request.

You can use the ?expand parameter on most requests to expand and include embedded objects within the _embedded property of the response. The _embedded property contains an array of objects keyed by the expand parameter values. To expand multiple objects, pass them as a comma-separated list of objects.

Example request containing multiple objects:

?expand=recentInvoice,customer

Example response:

"_embedded": [
    "recentInvoice": {...},
    "customer": {...}
]

Expand may be used on GET, PATCH, POST, PUT requests.

The full Rebilly API has over 500 operations. This is likely more than you may need to implement your use cases. If you would like to implement a particular use case, contact Rebilly for guidance and feedback on the best API operations to use for the task.

To integrate Rebilly, and learn about related resources and concepts, see Get started.