Authentication

In this section, you will find all the technical specification on how to authenticate to use the REST APIs.

To use the product, it is necessary to authenticate with an access token, using the authentication system known as OAuth2.

Unico's OAuth2 authentication system supports server-to-server interaction between a web application and Unico services.

For this scenario, you will need a service account, which is an impersonal account that belongs to your application and not to an individual user. Your application calls the Unico APIs on behalf of the service account, so users are not directly involved. This scenario is called “two-legged OAuth”, or “2LO”. Typically, an application uses a service account when the application calls the Unico APIs to work with its own data instead of the user's data.

This is step zero to start your implementation, so don't skip this stage.