Without a terminal device, is the API the appropriate method to add orders to a test merchant?

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#1

We are creating a cloud-application that reads order data from authorized merchants. In order to test, we need to populate our test merchant with orders. It doesn’t look like this can be done from the test merchant browser interface (appears to be read only/reporting views). Are we correct in concluding that we should write test code to use the API to populate test orders or is there another method available?

thanks, peter

#2

Peter,

You are right, there is no interface to generate a bunch of test orders, but you may be able to use our python sample script https://github.com/poynt/python-sample/blob/master/src/PoyntAPI.py#L696 by putting this function call in a loop. Feel free to join our gitter chatroom if you have questions about this: https://gitter.im/poynt/developerQuestions.