We are currently using an API key for our dev and test systems. Do I need to do anything to allow the same key to be used for our production system? do you need to be aware or offer different levels of support?
Thanks
Ben Owen
We would strongly recommend that you registered separate accounts for your dev, test and live and keep the API keys separate. From our end, we do not differentiate between your accounts. However if you use the same key for all of your services, you will have a single rate limit of 600 per 5 mins. If your dev system ran away and used up all of your ‘rate limit’ allowance, your live account would stop working of course.
Hope that helps.
Just to reconfirm, what you are saying is that, Companies house doesnt differentiate into Sandbox and Live environment and the production version of our application calls exactly the same companies house API as our dev version did only it should use a different API key?
Yes, to reconfirm, yes.