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A venue holds your branding, providers, groups and accounts. Use a Venue key to manage it from your backend. The back-office tool is a ready-made client of those APIs; you can also build your own business software directly.

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1. Create or select your venue

Sign in to sandbox API access. Choose the venue setup, create or select a venue, and create a Venue key with the scopes your integration needs. Save its venue ID and store the secret on your server when shown. Venue creation, owners and key management stay in your first-party TRDRS account. An installed back office cannot use a Venue key to give itself more authority.

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2. Read your venue

Expect HTTP 200 with your venue. This request requires venue:read. Your key cannot read a venue owned by someone else, and a sandbox key cannot authenticate in production.

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3. Choose your tool

Install the back office

Run the business UI yourself. Connect its server to your sandbox venue and keep the Venue key out of the browser.

Use your own backend

Configure and operate the same venue through the documented API. No back-office installation is required.
The existing hosted back office remains available while you move to the tool. Opening it does not migrate your older accounts into new groups.

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4. Exercise a complete sandbox workflow

Use a dedicated test trader and account, not an existing customer account.
  1. Set your venue name, description and logo.
  2. Configure instruments and conditions, then a group with a paper-book route.
  3. Have your test trader sign in to sandbox. Then, as the venue owner, issue an account into that group using the trader’s sign-in email.
  4. Open the trading app as that trader and check its branding and effective rules.
  5. Test trading deliberately, then inspect analytics and stage eligibility. Advance only when the documented conditions and completeness checks pass. Retry with the same request identity.
Run a venue carries configuration details; Venue accounts and analytics cover the account lifecycle. The integration self-check tests client behavior; it does not replace verification of your business rules.

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What stays separate

Your checkout, subscriptions and payments are yours. Sandbox does not require payment setup. A Venue key does not authorize personal trading. Provider integration and production listing are separate from creating a venue; Connect explains those boundaries.