Maestrano currently provides four SDKs to facilitate the integration of Single Sign-On, Billing and Data Sharing. Current SDKs are: Java, PHP, Ruby and .NET.

If no SDKs are available in the language you currently use, then it may be necessary to revert to a SDK-free integration using our REST APIs directly. This guide explains how to proceed in such case.

1 - Single Sign-On REQUIRED

Maestrano provides two different Single Sign-On protocols: SAML 2.0 and OpenID. OpenID has become fairly more popular than SAML and is also more supported by the community. Chances are you will find a library handling OpenID out-of-the-box for your language of choice. A few examples:

Node.js - http://passportjs.org/
Go - https://github.com/yohcop/openid-go
Scala/Play - https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.0/ScalaOpenID
Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~wrog/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.16/lib/Net/OpenID/Consumer.pm

Our OpenID guide will give you all the details on the best way to integrate our OpenID provider into your application, just check it out here.

2 - Account Management API & Webhooks

Our account management API is a REST API allowing you to perform:

Membership Management: get details about your Maestrano customers (memberships) and get notified of service cancellation actions via webhooks.
- Group/Organization
- User
- Groups Webhook
- Group Users Webhook - Mandatory
Billing Management: create/retrieve/cancel bills or recurring bills for your Maestrano customers.
- Bill (Adhoc)
- RecurringBill

2.1 - Membership Management

Dev Sandbox endpoint: http://api-sandbox.maestrano.io/api/v1/account/

Production endpoint: https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/

Groups (company/organization) API

> Retrieve your list of customers (= list of companies having selected your application on Maestrano)

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/groups
 
# Response
{  
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data":[  
      {  
         "object":"account_group",
         "id":"cld-4",
         "created_at":"2014-05-21T04:04:53Z",
         "updated_at":"2014-05-21T04:04:53Z",
         "has_credit_card":true,
         "status":"running",
         "name":"Logistics Department - Sales",
         "free_trial_end_at":"2014-06-21T04:04:53Z",
         "email":"cld-4@example.com",
         "currency":"USD",
         "timezone":"America/Los_Angeles",
         "country":"US",
         "city":"Los Angeles"
      }
  ]
}

> Retrieve a specific customer

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/groups/cld-4
 
# Response
{  
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data": {  
      "object":"account_group",
      "id":"cld-4",
      "created_at":"2014-05-21T04:04:53Z",
      "updated_at":"2014-05-21T04:04:53Z",
      "has_credit_card":true,
      "status":"running",
      "name":"Logistics Department - Sales",
      "free_trial_end_at":"2014-06-21T04:04:53Z",
      "email":"cld-4@example.com",
      "currency":"USD",
      "timezone":"America/Los_Angeles",
      "country":"US",
      "city":"Los Angeles"
  }
}

Users API

> Retrieve the list of users with access to your application

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/users
 
# Response
{  
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data":[  
      {  
         "object":"account_user",
         "id":"usr-2",
         "name":"John",
      	 "surname":"Doe",
         "email":"john.doe@gmail.com",
         "country":"AU",
         "sso_session":"d7kp1b5esnfgtz6xhiv9qwlja34yu8crm2o0",
         "created_at":"2014-05-21T00:37:34Z",
         "updated_at":"2015-03-09T06:37:28Z"
      }
   ]
}

> Retrieve a specific user

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/users/usr-2
 
# Response
{  
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data": {  
      "object":"account_user",
      "id":"usr-2",
      "name":"John",
      "surname":"Doe",
      "email":"john.doe@gmail.com",
      "country":"AU",
      "sso_session":"d7kp1b5esnfgtz6xhiv9qwlja34yu8crm2o0",
      "created_at":"2014-05-21T00:37:34Z",
      "updated_at":"2015-03-09T06:37:28Z"
   }
}

Groups Webhook - getting notified a of Group cancelling their subscription to your service REQUIRED

When a business decides to stop using your service Maestrano will issue a DELETE request to the webhook.account.groups_path endpoint on your side (e.g.: /webhooks/maestrano/groups/:id - see the metadata section above). The call is authenticated via HTTP Basic authentication using your own API credentials (shared secret).

The call is equivalent to issuing to the following cURL request on your service:

curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -X "DELETE" \ 
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  https://my-cloud-application.com/webhooks/maestrano/groups/cld-4

Group > Users Webhook - getting notified a of user leaving a group REQUIRED

When a user is removed from a group, access should be disabled for that specific user. In such case Maestrano will issue a DELETE request to the webhook.account.group_users_path endpoint on your side (e.g.: /webhooks/maestrano/groups/:group_id/users/:id - see the metadata section above). The call is authenticated via HTTP Basic authentication using your own API credentials (shared secret).

The call is equivalent to issuing to the following cURL request on your service:

curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -X "DELETE" \ 
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  https://my-cloud-application.com/webhooks/maestrano/groups/cld-4/users/usr-2

2.2 - Billing Management REQUIRED

Maestrano centralizes all billing functionalities. The goal is to provide to customers a single invoice at the end of the month summarising the expenses related to all the applications and services they have used during the month.

Our billing API allows you to report charges to be incurred to your Maestrano customers. Two types of bills are currently available:

Bill: one-off charge to be incurred - e.g.: one-off purchase a specific module, template, service within your application
RecurringBill: recurring charge - e.g.: weekly/monthly/annual user subscription

Bill - Adhoc charge

The command below shows how to create a $20 adhoc bill.

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \ 
  -X "POST" \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H "Content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"group_id":"cld-4", "price_cents":2000, "description":"Product purchase"}' \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/bills
 
# Response
{
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data":{
      "object":"account_bill",
      "id":"bill-520",
      "group_id":"cld-4",
      "created_at":"2015-06-03T05:00:33Z",
      "updated_at":"2015-06-03T05:00:33Z",
      "price_cents":2000,
      "status":"submitted",
      "currency":"AUD",
      "units":null,
      "description":"Product purchase",
      "period_started_at":null,
      "period_ended_at":null
   }
}

This command allows you to cancel a submitted bill. Only submitted bills can be cancelled - "invoiced" bills are not cancellable.

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \ 
  -X "DELETE" \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/bills/bill-520
 
# Response
{
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data":{
      "object":"account_bill",
      "id":"bill-520",
      "group_id":"cld-4",
      "created_at":"2015-06-03T05:00:33Z",
      "updated_at":"2015-06-03T05:00:33Z",
      "price_cents":2000,
      "status":"cancelled",
      "currency":"AUD",
      "units":null,
      "description":"Product purchase",
      "period_started_at":null,
      "period_ended_at":null
   }
}

Below is how to retrieve all your bills as well as a single bill:

# Retrieve all your bills
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/bills
 
# Retrieve a specific bill
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
 -H 'Accept: application/json' \
 https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/bills/bill-520

The table below summarises all the fields available on the Bill model:

Field	Mode	Type	Required	Default	Description
id	readonly	string	-	-	The id of the bill
group_id	read/write	string	Yes	-	The id of the group you are charging
price_cents	read/write	Integer	Yes	-	The amount in cents to charge to the customer
description	read/write	String	Yes	-	A description of the product billed as it should appear on customer invoice
created_at	readonly	Time	-	-	When the bill was created. Uses ISO 8601 format (e.g.: 2015-06-03T05:00:33Z)
updated_at	readonly	Time	-	-	When the bill was last updated. Uses ISO 8601 format (e.g.: 2015-06-03T05:00:33Z)
status	readonly	String	-	-	Status of the bill. Either 'submitted', 'invoiced' or 'cancelled'.
currency	read/write	String	-	AUD	The currency of the amount charged in ISO 4217 format (3 letter code)
units	read/write	Decimal(10,2)	-	1.0	How many units are billed for the amount charged
period_started_at	read/write	Time	-	-	If the bill relates to a specific period then specifies when the period started. Both period_started_at and period_ended_at need to be filled in order to appear on customer invoice. Uses ISO 8601 format (e.g.: 2015-06-03T05:00:33Z)
period_ended_at	read/write	Time	-	-	If the bill relates to a specific period then specifies when the period ended. Both period_started_at and period_ended_at need to be filled in order to appear on customer invoice. Uses ISO 8601 format (e.g.: 2015-06-03T05:00:33Z)

RecurringBill - Recurring subscription fees

The command below shows how to create a $29.90 recurring bill for a user license.

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \ 
  -X "POST" \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H "Content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"group_id":"cld-4", "price_cents":2990, "description":"User license", "period": "Month", "start_date": "2015-08-27T23:22:37Z" }' \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/recurring_bills
 
# Response
{
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data":{
      "object":"account_recurring_bill",
      "id":"rbill-523",
      "group_id":"cld-4",
      "created_at":"2015-06-03T05:02:19Z",
      "updated_at":"2015-06-03T05:02:19Z",
      "price_cents":2990,
      "status":"submitted",
      "currency":"AUD",
      "description":"User license",
      "start_date":"2015-08-27T23:22:37Z",
      "period":"month",
      "frequency":1,
      "cycles":null,
      "initial_cents":0,
      "last_execution_at":null,
      "next_execution_at":"2015-08-27T23:22:37Z",
      "remaining_cycles":null
   }
}

This command allows you to cancel a recurring bill:

# Request
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \ 
  -X "DELETE" \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/recurring_bills/rbill-523
 
# Response
{
   "success":true,
   "errors":{},
   "data":{
      "object":"account_recurring_bill",
      "id":"rbill-523",
      "group_id":"cld-4",
      "created_at":"2015-06-03T05:02:19Z",
      "updated_at":"2015-06-03T05:02:19Z",
      "price_cents":2990,
      "status":"cancelled",
      "currency":"AUD",
      "description":"User license",
      "start_date":"2015-08-27T23:22:37Z",
      "period":"month",
      "frequency":1,
      "cycles":null,
      "initial_cents":0,
      "last_execution_at":null,
      "next_execution_at":"2015-08-27T23:22:37Z",
      "remaining_cycles":null
   }
}

Below is how to retrieve all your recurring bills as well as a single recurring bill:

# Retrieve all your recurring bills
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/recurring_bills
 
# Retrieve a specific recurring bill
curl -u <my-app-id>:<my-app-secret> \
 -H 'Accept: application/json' \
 https://maestrano.com/api/v1/account/recurring_bills/rbill-523

The table below summarises all the fields available on the RecurringBill model:

Field	Mode	Type	Required	Default	Description
id	readonly	string	-	-	The id of the recurring bill
group_id	read/write	string	Yes	-	The id of the group you are charging
price_cents	read/write	Integer	Yes	-	The amount in cents to charge to the customer
description	read/write	String	Yes	-	A description of the product billed as it should appear on customer invoice
period	read/write	String	-	Month	The unit of measure for the billing cycle. Must be one of the following: 'Day', 'Week', 'SemiMonth', 'Month', 'Year'
frequency	read/write	Integer	-	1	The number of billing periods that make up one billing cycle. The combination of billing frequency and billing period must be less than or equal to one year. If the billing period is SemiMonth, the billing frequency must be 1.
cycles	read/write	Integer	-	nil	The number of cycles this bill should be active for. In other words it's the number of times this recurring bill should charge the customer.
start_date	read/write	Time	-	Now	The date when this recurring bill should start billing the customer. Uses ISO 8601 format (e.g.: 2015-06-03T05:00:33Z)
created_at	readonly	Time	-	-	When the recurring bill was created. Uses ISO 8601 format (e.g.: 2015-06-03T05:00:33Z)
updated_at	readonly	Time	-	-	When the recurring bill was last updated. Uses ISO 8601 format (e.g.: 2015-06-03T05:00:33Z)
currency	read/write	String	-	AUD	The currency of the amount charged in ISO 4217 format (3 letter code)
status	readonly	String	-	-	Status of the recurring bill. Either 'submitted', 'active', 'expired' or 'cancelled'.
initial_cents	read/write	Integer	-	0	Initial non-recurring payment amount - in cents - due immediately upon creating the recurring bill

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