Custom Provider Portal Workflow

Goal

A custom provider portal can use API reads to show accounts, usage, domains, SSL, backups, and security state without giving staff direct database access.

API Areas

• Token authentication and request logging.
• Read endpoints for the specific resource family.
• Role-aware tokens for provider-only resources.
• Backoff behavior for rate limits.

Sequence

curl -s https://panel.example.com/api/v1/me.php \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pc_YOUR_TOKEN"

curl -s https://panel.example.com/api/v1/accounts.php \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pc_YOUR_TOKEN"

curl -s https://panel.example.com/api/v1/jobs.php \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pc_YOUR_TOKEN"

Safety

• Start read-only.
• Use staging first.
• Use separate tokens per integration.
• Document write workflow guidance separately.
• Review request logs during the first production week.

Failures

• Token expired or user disabled.
• Integration uses a non-admin token for admin-only data.
• Polling too frequently and receiving 429.
• Expecting planned write endpoints that are not present in source.