FD1 Client Protocol
 
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Customer Access

Often you will want to allow a customer or untrusted third party to access a specific subset of data. FD1 is designed to allow this with row/field level security in the API itself.

Customer Display

Customer uses their own phone to watch the sale as it progresses

Online Receipt

Allow a customer to retrieve their receipt, optionally getting additional product details or downloading the receipt in alternative formats

Purchase Order

Allow a supplier to interact with a purchase order

In Store Search

Implement navigation and search while in the store

General Operation

Customer:
  • Scans a QR code, which is a URL
  • Clicks a link in an email
  • Clicks a link in a TXT message
Customers browser loads the URL, a public web page, which can be on your website/domain
That web page opens websocket to your Retail Server and sends the original URL as part of fd1.session.login
The QR code acts as a short term restricted access API Key

Example page showing the QR landing page