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# How do I get an Airwallet API key?

# How do I get an Airwallet API key?

You generate your own API keys in the Dashboard. Airwallet never sends you a key.

Follow these four steps.

1. Get a Dashboard account on the **Smart** plan or the **Business** plan. API access is not available on the Basic plan. See [Plans](https://wiser.airwallet.net/en/article/plans-oruw7h).
2. Send your Dashboard account email address to your Airwallet contact. Ask for developer access.
3. Airwallet turns on developer access. A **Developer** section then appears in the Dashboard under **Settings**.
4. Open that section and generate your key pair: an API key and a secret key.

Your software sends both keys with every request.

|| Store the secret key safely at the moment you create it. Airwallet shows the secret key one time only. The Dashboard keeps a short prefix for your own reference, not the key itself. If you lose the secret key, generate a new pair.

If you give a software vendor access to your Airwallet data, generate the key pair yourself and send it to the vendor over a secure channel. Do not share your Dashboard password.