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Square Connect CatalogObjectId

I'm developing an ASP.Net (C#) website for a brick and mortar business that uses Square as their POS. I'm trying to use the Square Checkout API. In creating the CreateOrderRequestLineItem, I need to set the CatalogObjectId of the item so that web sales/activity will reconcile to their in-person sales for those same items. I am not able to locate the CatalogObjectId on the square dashboard and I really don't want to make a call to the catalog API to hopefully get the correct item that the user has already selected the item. I've exported the list of items from the dashboard and I see a "token" column that looks like it might be a unique ID. Basically, I have two questions:

  1. Is the token value from the export the CatalogObjectId?
  2. If no, then how/where can I get the CatalogObjectId for a given item?

Thanks.

Solution

  • Here are my answers -

    1. No, Token value is not the CatalogObjectId
    2. You can save the catalog items in your DB by calling "ListCatalog" api as - https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v2#endpoint-listcatalog and then get CatalogObjectId by comparing the product names.