generated: '2026-08-01'
method: searched
source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
summary: >-
  Nowsta operates a separate staging environment with its own hostname and its own tokens, and grants
  partners a demo account on it. Access is request-based, not self-serve - there is no public sandbox
  signup, no sandbox key page and no published test fixtures.
environments:
- name: production
  base_url: https://api.nowsta.com
  keys: per-company bearer token retrieved by the customer from the Nowsta UI
- name: staging
  base_url: https://api.nowsta-staging.com
  keys: separate staging tokens issued with the demo account
  access: >-
    Request-based. Nowsta's guidance - "To develop and test your integration, contact us and we will
    give you access to a demo account on our staging server."
  dns_note: >-
    api.nowsta-staging.com does not resolve from the public internet as of 2026-08-01 (NXDOMAIN),
    consistent with an environment that is opened per partner rather than left publicly addressable.
    Recorded as published-but-gated, not as absent.
separation:
  mode: separate-host
  key_prefixes: none published
  detail: >-
    Test and live are separated by hostname and by token, not by a key prefix or a mode flag. There is
    no documented way to tell a staging token from a production token by inspection.
guidance:
  quote: >-
    "We highly recommend that you start by contacting us and making sure that the integration works in
    a staging environment before using the production URL and keys."
test_values:
  published: false
  detail: >-
    Nowsta publishes no magic test identifiers, no fixture generator, no time simulation / test clocks
    and no trigger tooling. The only concrete values in the reference are illustrative example payloads
    (event id "125A", shift id "15Q", worker id "1W", position "Comedian"), which are documentation
    examples rather than reserved test values - do not treat them as working fixtures.
self_serve: false
approval_required: true
approval_detail: >-
  Nowsta must approve a company before its integration token works in production; requests on behalf of
  an unapproved company return 403 with error code 1101.
legal:
  integration_addendum: https://www.nowsta.com/integration-addendum/