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Connect Paddle: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads
Paddle is a merchant-of-record billing platform that software makers use to sell subscriptions and handle tax and payments. FoxPlug reads it only when you press Check for what's new. What you give it: live API key pasted into FoxPlug.
Where to find it: In FoxPlug open Settings, then Publishing & integrations, then the row "The tools you build with", and press How to connect next to Paddle. Faster: press / in Settings and type Paddle. Open it in FoxPlug
Steps
- In Paddle, open Developer tools, then Authentication, then API keys (the in-app link goes there).
- Make a new live API key (not a sandbox one) and name it FoxPlug.
- Under permissions, tick only Subscriptions: read. Leave everything else off.
- Copy the key now and paste it into the Paddle box in FoxPlug. Paddle may show it only once.
- Press the connect button in FoxPlug. FoxPlug checks the key or sign-in straight away and tells you in plain words if it was refused.
Try it on your own site first
Paste your site address and see the brief FoxPlug writes from it, right here. Free, no account, no card.
Good to know
- What to give: live API key pasted into FoxPlug. Give it read-only access.
- What FoxPlug looks at: Subscriptions; Subscription items and prices; Active and trialing subscribers; Past-due subscriptions; New and cancelled in 30 days.
- Everything FoxPlug reads from Paddle, and what it never reads, is on its integration page.
- Free calculators for your numbers: what failed payments cost you, revenue riding on expiring cards and what a win-back note could return.
- You can disconnect any time from the same place, and the stored key is deleted.
What it does not do
- Customer emails. No customer email is read or stored.
- Sandbox data: a Paddle sandbox key (pdl followed by sdbx) is refused because it holds test data.
- Anything written back: only GET reads are made, nothing is changed in Paddle.
Related
- The Your connections card: what each state means
- The Check for what's new button
- Connect Supabase: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads
- Connect GitHub: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads
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