The Rewardful API is organized around REST. Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.

Authentication

All API requests require authentication with HTTP Basic Auth, similar to how Stripe authenticates. Provide your API Secret as the basic auth username value. You do not need to provide a password.

curl https://api.getrewardful.com/v1/affiliates/7B016217-18AF-44DD-A30C-0DE0C1534D2A \
  -u YOUR_API_SECRET:

Be sure to replace YOUR_API_SECRET with your actual API Secret. For example, if your API secret was ABC123, the curl command to fetch all affiliates would be:

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.getrewardful.com/v1/affiliates \
  -u ABC123:

Your API Secret can be found on the Company Settings page.

Contact us as soon as possible if you believe your API Secret has been compromised so we can rotate it for you.

Request and Response Formats

Rewardful will provide a JSON-based REST API through which merchants can create affiliate accounts and fetch data for reporting. Endpoints accept form-encoded request bodies and return JSON-encoded responses.

Rewardful uses UUID strings for primary keys (IDs) for all resources. If you plan to store Rewardful IDs in your database, make sure to use a column type (string, UUID, etc) appropriate for your database engine.

Dates and times in the Rewardful API are represented as ISO 8601 formatted strings.

Errors

Missing or invalid authorization will return a 401 Unauthorized JSON response:

{  "error": "Invalid API Secret." }

Requesting a nonexistent object will return a 404 Not Found JSON response:

{  "error": "Affiliate not found: " }

Passing invalid data to a create/update endpoint will return a 422 Unprocessable Entity JSON response:

{
  "error": "Could not create affiliate.",
  "details": ["Email can't be blank"]
}

Pagination

API endpoints that return a list of objects include pagination, unless noted otherwise. The data structure has two root objects:

The `pagination` object

Example

This example demonstrates the pagination for a collection of 150 objects in total, split into 3 pages of 50 objects per page:

{
  "pagination": {
    "previous_page": 1,
    "current_page": 2,
    "next_page": 3,
    "count": 50,
    "limit": 50,
    "total_pages": 3,
    "total_count": 150
  },
  "data": [
    // Array of objects
  ]
}

Expanding objects

Many objects allow you to request additional information as an expanded response by using the expand request parameter. You can use expand to expand a single type of object, or expand[] to expand multiple types of objects.

The documentation for each endpoint will list which objects are expandable (if any) for that endpoint.

For example, to expand an affiliate you would prepend this query string parameter to the request URL:

?expand=affiliate

To expand both affiliate and sale objects, prepend this query string parameter to the request URL:

?expand[]=affiliate&expand=sale