Upcoming Changes

Today, sandbox and test developer environments are separate platforms (and separate developer portals). With the upcoming changes, we will be consolidating sandbox and test into a single environment, which reduces the complexity of users managing apps across 3 environments to 2 environments (sandbox-test and live).

In the combined sandbox-test developer portal you will be able to choose which environment (sandbox or test) your app will use.

Personal Apps

Personal Apps will be disabled. See our previous post for further details: Disabling Personal Apps in favour of Team Apps.

Team Apps

All your apps will be managed through teams. Existing apps that are part of a team will not change.

When creating a new team app in the sandbox-test developer portal, you will be able to choose whether that app is for sandbox or test API access. Once the app is saved the environment will be fixed and unchangeable for that app.

Your Teams

When you first login you will be presented with the Your Teams page, which will list the teams available to you that you’ve created or are a member of.

Team Switcher

For those developers who participate in many teams, we are introducing a Team Switcher in the top-left of the portal to easily switch from one team to another.

Partners is changing

We are changing the way you become a partner and how you will access our Partner APIs.

The general partner access to APIs will be retired, and instead Product Access Codes will be used by partners to unlock one or more of our Partner APIs.

If you previously had general access to Partner APIs you will need to apply Product Access Codes in order to unlock those Partner APIs again.

Product Access Codes

Product Access Codes are unique codes that unlock the visibility and access to particular Partner API Products. These codes are linked to a team and the API Products will only be visible to the team (and its members) that has applied that Product Access Code.

Depending on the code, they may unlock one or more of our Partner API Products.

You will be able to request access to one or more of our Partner API Products by seeing your Bunnings representative, or fill in the Feedback form.

Accessing Partner APIs

Once you have used a Product Access Code to unlock one or more Partner APIs, the documentation will be made visible for the Partner API(s). Also, when you Add, or Edit an App the Partner API(s) will be available to select and use with your associated API keys.

Teams and Partner API access

Partner API access is associated with a team, therefore only that team you apply a Product Access Code to has access to the associated Partner API(s). Switching from one team to another will switch contexts on what Partner APIs have been unlocked for that particular team.

Some of our APIs have been accessible in our UAT environment (*.uat.api.bunnings.com.au). We will be disabling this address at the end of January and APIs that were at this address will no longer be resolvable. The APIs will still be available on the sandbox, test and live addresses.