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Passslot API Authentication

How to authenticate Passslot API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud handles Passslot's custom auth scheme for you.

Every Passslot API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Passslot account. This page covers both, plus exactly how to send them, so you do not need to visit any other page to get authenticated.

Steps to authenticate

  1. Create a MindCloud account at app.mindcloud.co if you do not already have one.
  2. Generate a MindCloud API Key in API Keys. This is the Bearer token you send on every request. Keep it on your server.
  3. Create a Passslot connection in Connections. Passslot uses its own authentication scheme. You provide whatever it requires when you create the connection — MindCloud handles the provider-specific details for you.
  4. Copy the connection’s connectionId — you will send it on every request alongside your MindCloud API Key.

How requests are authenticated

Authentication has two layers. Your MindCloud API Key authenticates the request to MindCloud, sent as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. The connectionId selects the connected Passslot account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Passslot credentials behind that connection, so you never send provider tokens with your requests.

Pass connectionId in the query string for GET and DELETE actions, and in the JSON body for POST, PUT, and PATCH actions.

For example, calling List Templates with an Passslot connection looks like this:

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v1/universal/passslot/latest/actions/list-templates" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --get \
  --data-urlencode "connectionId=$CONNECTION_ID"

The Authorization: Bearer <your MindCloud API Key> header authenticates you to MindCloud; the connectionId tells MindCloud which Passslot account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Connect Passslot

You need a Passslot App Key with access to the pass templates or pass type IDs you want to manage.

  1. Review the Passslot authentication docs

    Confirm that your workspace uses an App Key and that the key has access to the templates or pass type IDs you plan to manage.

    Passslot API → Getting Started → Authentication
  2. Open your Passslot account

    Sign in to the Passslot workspace that owns the passes and templates you want to automate.

  3. Locate the MindCloud App key

    Find the App Key named "MindCloud App" or create an equivalent App Key with the required template and pass type access.

  4. Paste the App Key into MindCloud

    Enter the App Key as the single API Key credential. MindCloud sends it as the Authorization header value for each request.

Keep your key safe

Keep your MindCloud API Key on your server; do not ship it in browser code, mobile apps, public repositories, or logs. Anyone with the key can call the Universal API as your MindCloud account, across every connection you have created.