Onboarding Checklist

This checklist will take you through the process to get started with the Criteo API. The steps are divided into several categories, some of which you might decide to skip if they aren't applicable to your needs. To get the most from this document, read and execute steps in order.

The list contains three types of items:

• ✔ Todo: Steps that are required in order to perform a certain task or set up a certain part of your app
• 💡 Info: Information that is not critical for the process, but will help you understand the context or clarify certain steps.
• 🚨Warning: Things to be aware of throughout the process, as they might involve additional implementation effort or incur certain risks.

Getting familiar with Criteo API and products

• ✔ Learn more about Criteo API use cases: If you already know Criteo, read our Is the Criteo API for you? article to have some inspiration use cases if you are not sure to use the Criteo API
• 💡 Learn more about Criteo: If you are new to Criteo, read our Criteo Marketing Solutions for API users (if you are an Advertiser or an Agency) or our Criteo Publishers for API users [Coming soon] (if you are an inventory provider) to know more about Criteo API capabilities

Getting started with access

Create a Criteo developer account

• ✔ Start by creating your Criteo account (if you already have an account please skip this step): Go to our landing page at developers.criteo.com and click on Get Started
• ✔ Complete our registration form to create a Criteo developer account: You will receive a confirmation email to finish the process

Create your organization once you have created your developer Criteo account

• ✔ Complete the organization details form
• ✔ Once created you will have access to developer portal

Modifying an Account or Organization

• 💡 If you want to modify your Account please see our article Managing my developer account
• 💡 If you want to modify your Organization please see our article Managing my organization

Learning how to use Criteo endpoints

Create an app

• ✔ Once you have created your organization, you will have access to the MyApps page. This page will give you a summary of the apps you have created.
• ✔ To start creating an app, click on the Start building button. Define an app name, description and image to create your app.
• ✔ This fields will be editable before publishing an app (for more details see the Managing my app section)

App name, image and description

• 💡 This elements will be visible to the Advertisers, Brands or Publishers you will share your App with. So please provide some content describing your business and inspiring confidence to your App users.

It is temporally not possible to delete an app

• 🚨 Deleting App feature is not available for this first release. Don't worry, we are working on it! In the meantime you can test creating several Apps, you will be able to clean up later.

Get your app credentials

• ✔ Get your API credentials once your app is created. Start creating a set of credentials by clicking on generate and download new key. This will create a new set of credentials (API Key and API Secret).
• ✔ API Key will be available in the credentials table and secret will only be provided once (a file with the secret will automatically download when creating a set of credentials) please keep it preciously! For more details about credentials please see the Create your app section.

Managing my credentials

• 💡 You will be limited to 5 API credentials at for an App (for ex. 1 for production, 1 for troubleshooting and 3 others for any other use case you can imagine)
• 💡 For more details about how to edit and delete credentials please see the Create your app

API Secret shared only once

• 🚨 API Secret will be available in the file automatically downloaded when creating a set of credentials) please keep it preciously as it will be the only time we will be able to share it with you!

Define your App scope

Select the services you would like to access through your app (Marketing Solutions, Retail Media or Publisher)

• ✔ Once you are sure and you have chosen a Service, please click on Save. This action cannot be undone.

Saving the Service cannot be undone

• 🚨 Once you click on save, you won't be able to switch between Marketing Solutions, Publisher or Retail Media anymore! So please chose carefully (and in case you made a mistake it is not that bad, just create a new app 😉)

Then select the authorizations you would need for your app

• ✔ Click on the Save button to save your authorization selection.
• ✔ You can update the authorizations as much times as you want before validating your app through the Generate consent link button

Validate your app and generate a consent URL

Click on Generate & Copy URL to finish your app

• ✔ This will generate a consent link you can share with an advertiser/brand/publisher to get the authorization to access to their assets.
• ✔ Changing the name, description, image or app scope will no longer be available after the first URL creation.
• ✔ You can generate as much URLs as you want and each URL can only be used once.

Validating an App sets the App information and scope

• 🚨 Changing the name, description, image or app scope will no longer be available after the first URL creation.

More information about how authorization works

• 💡 For more details on how does it work please see the Send an authorization request to your users

Start using your API connection

Once you click on Generate & Copy URL, the consent URL will be directly copied into your clipboard

• ✔ Share your URL by email, Slack or any other mean to your Advertiser, Brand or Publisher.
• ✔ Once they click the link, they will be redirected to the Criteo Consent Portal where they can provide you the requested authorization levels for the accounts in their portfolio.

Start using the Criteo API endpoints

• ✔ Call the portfolio endpoint (/advertisers/me) with your credentials to confirm you have now access to the accounts.
• ✔ You will then be able to use the domains in your scope for those advertisers/brand/publishers and start using Criteo APIs! 🎉