Developer API
v2 API Connect Vantr to your catalog, vendor, location, and reporting workflows with scoped credentials managed from the developer portal.Open Developer Center
Manage apps, credentials, scopes, usage activity, webhooks, and API-host developer workflows.
Run the quickstart
Create an application, choose scopes, and make a verified read request from your server.
Explore the reference
Browse generated endpoint pages from the same OpenAPI spec that ships with this docs site.
Manage applications, secrets, and request activity in the API-host developer portal. Use these docs for implementation details, endpoint behavior, and generated clients.
First-class API host
api.vantr.ai is the API endpoint and the developer experience home. API-only users can use the Developer Center for docs, OAuth applications, OpenAPI, SDK starters, request activity, webhooks, and sandbox workflows without moving through the business app.
Developer Center blueprint
See how Vantr separates marketing, app, docs, portal, OpenAPI, sandbox, and AI discovery surfaces.
What you can build
Catalog automation
Create and update products, variations, categories, and vendor profiles from your system of record.
Location-aware workflows
Read tenant locations and attach valid
location_id values to downstream workflows.Usage visibility
Read API usage totals and discover the resources available to a given application.
First useful call
Use locations as the first smoke test. The request proves authentication, tenant binding, pagination, and JSON parsing without changing data.A successful locations request returns
success, locations, and pagination fields.Developer workflow
Create an application
Create an Vantr developer application and save the client secret in your server-side secret manager.
Pick narrow scopes
Start with read scopes while developing. Add write scopes only for endpoints your integration calls.
Call v2 endpoints
Use confidential client auth for server-to-server calls or exchange OAuth grants for bearer tokens.
Guide shortcuts
API conventions
Learn the base URL, auth headers, pagination parameters, and response envelope patterns.
Catalog workflows
Follow product, category, and vendor examples with realistic request bodies.
Errors and recovery
Handle OAuth errors, permission failures, validation responses, and archive conflicts.
Use with AI tools
Connect the docs MCP server, install the API skill, and give agents the OpenAPI contract.
Reference shortcuts
Products
Product and variation catalog endpoints.
Categories
Category list, tree, create, update, and archive endpoints.
Vendors
Vendor profile read and write endpoints.