Get your API key

Your API key is the password a piece of software uses to talk to Liftify on your account’s behalf. You need it if you or a developer are pulling Liftify data into another system, or pushing data in. If nobody is writing code against Liftify, you can ignore this page entirely.

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Find the key

1. In the left sidebar, click the circle with your initials, then Settings.
2. Under Integrations, click API Keys.

The page is headed API Access and explains: “Use this API key to authenticate API requests for this account.” The key is hidden by default — you see only the first and last few characters. Use the buttons beside it:

• Show reveals the full key. It turns into Hide once revealed.
• Copy puts the key on your clipboard without revealing it on screen.

Below that, the page shows the line a developer needs to send with every request, starting Authorization: Bearer. Its own Copy button copies that whole line, ready to paste. The key hides itself again as soon as you navigate away, so it is not left sitting on screen.

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Check whether API access is on

Beside API Access Status you will see one of two labels:

• Enabled — the API is switched on for this account and the key will work.
• Not Enabled — requests will not go through, even with the right key.

Support also handles anything else key-related — if you believe the key has leaked, email them.

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What to do with it

Give the key and the Authorization: Bearer line to whoever is building the connection. Everything else they need — the addresses to call and the data they return — is in the API documentation, reachable from the button at the bottom of the page: View API documentation, at docs.liftify.com.

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Make a narrower key instead

The account key above reads and writes everything on the account. If you are handing access to a contractor, a reporting tool, or anything you would rather not trust with the whole account, make an API client instead: a named key you can limit to particular locations and to reading only. The API Clients card sits below the account key, described as: “Named API keys that can be limited to specific locations and to read-only access. Keys are fixed after creation — to change locations or scope, create a new key and deactivate the old one.”

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Create one

Under Create API client: Click Create API client. It appears in the list above with its own key, masked, with the same Show and Copy buttons as the account key.

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Read the list

Each key in the list carries badges telling you what it is and where it stands: Underneath, a line names the locations it covers — or All locations — plus its expiry date and when it was last used, when Liftify has those. Last used is the quickest way to find a key nobody needs any more.

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Switch one off

Click Deactivate beside a key and it stops working immediately. The button becomes Activate if you need it back. Deactivating is the right response to a key that has leaked, or to an integration you have retired — there is no delete.