Practice with a test account
Test accounts are great for staging and practicing anything you do not want to affect your live account and data. Creating a test account is free, and you can label it as a test account to keep your learning playground clearly separate from your production account. You can safely use the same login for both accounts, and easily switch between them without fear of your actions in one account impacting the other.
The following terminology will be used throughout this lesson:
- Production account: your live Klaviyo account that contains all catalog and customer data
- Development environment: used by software developers to test out their code
In this lesson, a development environment consists of a Klaviyo test account and associated private API keys.
Create a test account and private API key
Follow along with this video to set up your development environment by creating a test account and private API key. These steps will ensure you are ready to start making API calls.
Private API keys are confidential and allow you to authorize your API calls. You should treat your private API keys like passwords. Never reveal them to anyone else. You can copy private API keys from your Klaviyo account without revealing the keys, as demonstrated in the following video.