Report the Button Attribution Token

Once the user has placed an order in your app, include the Button Attribution Token before sending the user’s checkout request to your checkout API. The Button Attribution Token can be retrieved by calling the attributionToken method from the Button Merchant Library.

Let’s say your user has successfully made a purchase for a pair of jeans on your client application. Before sending that purchase request to your checkout API, retrieve the Button Attribution Token using ButtonMerchant.attributionToken (iOS) or ButtonMerchant.getAttributionToken (Android).

// Obtain Attribution Token
val btnRef = ButtonMerchant.getAttributionToken(context)

// Obtain Attribution Token
final String btnRef = ButtonMerchant.getAttributionToken(context);

// Obtain Attribution Token
if let token = ButtonMerchant.attributionToken {
	// referred token is present - add to order
}

NSString *token = ButtonMerchant.attributionToken;
if (token) {
  // referred token is present - add to order
}

Once the Button Attribution Token has been retrieved, include it when sending the user’s order request to your checkout API.

val url = URL("https://checkout-api.yourbrand.com")
val urlConnection = url.openConnection() as HttpURLConnection
urlConnection.doOutput = true

val json = JSONObject()
json.put("btn_ref", btnRef)
json.put("price", 34.90)
json.put("location", "New York")

val out = BufferedOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream())
writeStream(out, json)

URL url = new URL("https://checkout-api.yourbrand.com");
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);

JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
json.put("btn_ref", btnRef);
json.put("price", 34.90);
json.put("location", "New York");

OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream());
writeStream(out, json);

// Set parameters for POST, including Attribution Token
let parameters: Parameters = [
  "token": token, // Attribution Token from previous section
  "price": 50.00,
  "location": "New York",
  "items": "Jeans"
]

// Perform POST request to your Checkout API (server)
Alamofire.request("checkout-api.yourbrand.com", method: .post, parameters: parameters, encoding: JSONEncoding(options: []))

NSDictionary *params = @{ @"token": token, // Attribution token above
                         @"price": @50.00,
                         @"location": @"New York",
                         @"items": @"Jeans" };

// Perform POST request to your Checkout API (server)
[AFHTTPSessionManager.manager POST:@"checkout-api.yourbrand.com"
                               parameters:params
                               progress:nil
                               success:successHandler 
                               failure:errorHandler];

Report a New Order

Brands should report all successful orders to the Button Order API before reporting back to the end user, and after fulfilling that order in your own inventory system. Order reporting at this time guarantees both that the order was successfully acknowledged, and that any promotions from other applications involved in this purchase are carried out.

The Button Attribution Token should have been passed to your checkout API above. In the call to Button's Order API, you can pass this value as btn_ref.

Here is a sample request using the cURL terminal command. For more information on this API’s specifications, visit the Order API.

curl https://api.usebutton.com/v1/order \
  -X POST \
  -u YOUR_API_KEY: \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "total": 7000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "order_id": "1994",
    "purchase_date": "2017-07-25T08:23:52Z",
    "finalization_date": "2017-08-02T19:26:08Z",
    "btn_ref": "srctok-XXX",
    "customer": {
      "id": "mycustomer-1234",
      "email_sha256": "'`echo -n "[email protected]" | openssl dgst -sha256`'",
      "device_id": "XXXX-XXXXXX-XXX-XXXXXX",
      "is_new": true
    },
    "customer_order_id": "abcdef-123456"
    "line_items": [
            {
                "identifier": "sku-1234",
                "total": 4000,
                "amount": 2000,
                "quantity":2,
                "sku": "sku-1234",
                "upc": "400000000001",
                "category": ["Clothes"],
                "description": "T-shirts",
                "attributes":{
                    "size": "M"
                }
            },{
                "identifier": "sku-4567",
                "total": 3000,
                "amount": 3000,
                "quantity":1,
                "sku": "sku-4567",
                "upc": "400000000002",
                "category": ["Clothes"],
                "description": "Pants",
                "attributes":{
                    "size": "L"
                }
            }
    ],
  }'

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Note
You'll need to authenticate your API requests; see our authentication reference for more details.

Order Object

All fields below are required when reporting orders to Button:

Request Parameter	Description
`total`	Total value of the order. Includes any discounts, if applicable. Must exclude VAT, all other taxes, surcharges and any additional costs such as delivery. This value represents the commissionable total. Must be an integer >= 0. Example: 1234 for $12.34.
`currency`	Three-letter ISO currency code as specified in ISO 4217.
`order_id`	The Order ID unique to this order. Treated as an ASCII string. 255 character maximum.
`purchase_date`	ISO-8601 string representing the time the purchase was made by the user.
`btn_ref`	The Button Attribution Token. A URL safe string up to 255 characters. This field is optional to create an order, but is required for attribution. When testing your integration, you should send dummy Attribution Tokens to Button, in the following format: `^fakesrctok-[a-f0-9]{16}$` (e.g. `fakesrctok-abcdef0123456789`). Note: even though this is marked as `optional`, you must provide a valid Button Attribution Token when reporting orders driven by a Button Publisher.
`customer`	Information regarding the Customer Object.
`customer_order_id`	The customer-facing order ID. Treated as a UTF-8 string. 255 character maximum. Note: Use this field to report the order identifier as communicated to the customer.
`line_items`	An array of the line item details that comprise the order.
`status`	A read-only field giving the order's current status.
`partner_order_channel`	The channel in which the user transacted. Accepted values for this field are `app` and `webview`.

Customer Object

All fields below are required when reporting orders to Button:

Key	Description
`id`	The ID for the transacting customer in your system.
`email_sha256`	The SHA-256 hash of the transacting customer's lowercase email, as a 64-character hex string. Note: The value of the e-mail address must be converted to lowercase before computing the hash. The hash itself may use uppercase or lowercase hex characters.
`device_id`	The customer's device ID (iOS: IDFA, Android: AAID)
`is_new`	A Boolean value indicating whether or not the customer has previously made a purchase. Pass `true` if this is their first purchase, otherwise pass `false`.

Line Items Object

All fields below are required when reporting orders to Button:

Key	Description
`identifier`	The unique identifier for this line item, within the scope of this order. This must be unique across all line-items within the order. We suggest using the SKU or UPC of the product.
`sku`	The Stock Keeping Unit of the line item. A Brand-specific identifier for the line item. String with a maximum length of 255.
`upc`	The Universal Product Code of the line item. Also referred to as UPC-A and GTIN-12. UPC-E (8-digit) codes should be converted to 12-digit codes. String with 12 numeric digits. For industries not regularly utilizing `upc` this can be your industry’s unique product identifier.
`quantity`	The number of unique units represented by this line item. Must be an integer > 0. Defaults to 1.
`total`	The total cost of all items in this line item expressed as an integer in pennies (e.g. if 3 bananas were purchased for $3.00 each, `total` would be `900`). Must be net of any discounts or taxes and represent the value a Brand expects to commission on.
`category`	The category of the line item. An ordered list of strings, starting with the topmost (or most general) category. The total number of subcategories is capped at 7. Example: `["Electronics", "Computers", "Laptops", "Accessories", "Bags"]`.
`description`	Text describing the line item.
`attributes`	A key/value store for strings to specify additional information about a line item. Examples of attributes are: top level / meta category identifier with a `category`; secondary category identifier with a `subcategory`; primary manufacturer of the product with a `brand`

Update an Order

Accurate billing relies on accurate order reporting. In cases where initial orders are modified, it is vital to update them via the Button Orders API.

Because of this, Brands must also report all successful order updates to the Button Orders API whenever the order’s value, content, or status changes in your e-commerce backend. Similar to reporting a new order, updating orders is done via POST request containing the order’s updated information.

When you report an order adjustment to Button, the body should contain the most recent / current version of the order. To illustrate this, if an order was initially posted with two line items, and then one line item was returned, the order adjustment posted to Button should only contain one line item.

Important: Partial returns are considered “updates” and should be reported using this update method.

Here is a sample request using the cURL terminal command – if you compare this to the sample order reported above, you'll see one line item was removed and the total now reflects the updated order total.

curl https://api.usebutton.com/v1/order/ord-xxx \
  -X POST \
  -u my-api-key: \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "total": 4000,
    "line_items": [
            {
                "identifier": "sku-1234",
                "total": 4000,
                "amount": 2000,
                "quantity":2,
                "sku": "sku-1234",
                "upc": "400000000001",
                "category": ["Clothes"],
                "description": "T-shirts",
                "attributes":{
                    "size": "M"
                }
            }
    ],
  }'

For more information on this API’s specifications, visit the Orders API.

Cancel an Order

Lastly, for all orders that are cancelled within your Brand’s Order Management System, you must report this to the Button Order API to avoid improper billing or commissioning to your Brand or other parties involved in the transaction. Cancellations are reported via http DELETE request, and are only valid for entire order cancellations. Partial order cancellations are considered an order update. Once a cancellation is made, it cannot be reversed.

Here is a sample request using the cURL terminal command. For more information on this API’s specifications, visit the Orders API.

curl https://api.usebutton.com/v1/order/<brand-order-id> \
       -X DELETE \
       -u YOUR_API_KEY:

Receiving a Response

A successful response body from the Offers API will return a meta.status of ok for all transmissions, differing only under the object field to reflect either the new order being registered, updated, or cancelled.

// Sample response:
{
  "meta": {
    "status": "ok"
  },
    "object": {
      "id": "f00b4r",
        "active": true
    }
}