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Creating a checkout session using the API

1

Create a New Token

Create a new organization token by following our Organization Access Tokens guide.
2

Save your Access Token

After creating your access token, you will be able to view it. Please copy and save your access token.
3

Go to the Products Catalogue

In the Polar dashboard sidebar, navigate to Products > Catalogue for your organization. You can also go directly to:
https://polar.sh/dashboard/${org_slug}/products
4

Access the product IDs for checkout

Retrieve the Product IDs for the items you wish to include in checkout by clicking on the ⋮ (More options) menu next to chosen products and selecting Copy Product ID.
These IDs will be required in the next step to create a checkout session.
5

Create a Checkout Session using the API

Open your terminal and paste the following curl command to make an API call for creating a checkout session. Be sure to replace:
  • <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN> with your actual access token
  • <PRODUCT_ID_1>, <PRODUCT_ID_2>, etc., with the product IDs you want to include in the session
curl --request POST \
    --url https://api.polar.sh/v1/checkouts/ \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{
    "products": [
        "<Product_ID_1>",
        "<Product_ID_2>",
        "<Product_ID_3>"
    ]
}'
Find the description of all the parameters in the Create Checkout Session API.
6

Access the Checkout Session URL

The curl command returns a JSON. Access the checkout URL from the “url” key of the JSON.
{
    "...": "...",
    "url": "https://buy.polar.sh/polar_c_...", 
    "...": "..."
}