Getting Started
Use this guide to build and operate a Client Trade API integration. It assumes you already understand Axiym accounts, address book entries, deposits, conversions, withdrawals, and client resources as described in Concepts & Workflows.
Recommended path
1. Prepare access
Complete Access and environments to obtain sandbox credentials, provide your egress addresses, and confirm the Axiym accounts, conversion pairs, and external-account test fixtures available for testing.
2. Onboard the client
Complete Client onboarding.
A client may be onboarded through an API flow or manually with Axiym. In both
cases, retain the Axiym-issued clientId and wait until the client is ACTIVE
before starting Client Trade API business operations.
3. Establish client context
Read Client context. Every
business-resource request uses /clients/{clientId} and every identifier in a
workflow must belong to that client.
4. Understand sandbox testing
Read Sandbox testing before testing payment workflows. It explains test balances, wallet transfers on testnet, and bank deposit and withdrawal scenarios coordinated with Axiym.
5. Complete the quickstart
Make your first conversion takes you from authentication to a confirmed conversion. It is the shortest way to validate credentials, Axiym account access, permissions, idempotency, and the quote-and-confirm workflow.
6. Implement the workflows you need
| Guide | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Client onboarding | Retain the Axiym-issued clientId, complete KYB onboarding by API or manually, and wait until the client is ACTIVE. |
| Add to the address book | Register an owned bank account or wallet for use as a deposit source and withdrawal recipient. |
| Deposit funds | Send funds from an address book entry, identify the resulting deposit, and confirm the Axiym account credit. |
| Execute a conversion | Select a permitted pair, create a locked quote, confirm it, and track execution. |
| Withdraw funds | Create and confirm a withdrawal from an Axiym account to an active address book entry. |
| Reconcile activity | Join API resources to account statement entries and verify period balances. |
Register the external account and wait until its address book entry is ACTIVE
before testing a deposit or withdrawal. The workflow sequence uses the represented client's
/clients/{clientId} paths.
7. Apply the shared conventions
The fundamentals apply across Client Trade API operations:
- Authentication
- Common Headers
- Idempotency
- Pagination and List Filters
- Error Handling and Retries
- Rate Limits
- Data Formats and Constants
- Payment Rails
- Blockchain Networks
Definition of a production-ready integration
Before moving production funds, your integration should be able to:
- obtain new access tokens before expiry, without exposing client secrets;
- attach request IDs and idempotency keys correctly;
- preserve
clientIdwith every client-owned resource; - track client onboarding and client availability through polling or webhooks;
- handle asynchronous deposit, conversion, address book entry, and withdrawal states;
- distinguish simulated sandbox bank activity from real external settlement;
- retry only requests that are safe to retry;
- follow cursor pagination until
hasNextPageis false; and - reconcile completed operations against Axiym account statements.