34 articles

• API keys and services checklist
  A step-by-step checklist of every key, token and outside account VisionScaper can use, and the exact screen where each one goes.
• Google Maps keys (browser key and server key)
  Which Google Maps keys VisionScaper can use, which Google APIs to enable, and how to restrict each key.
• Turning on Explore in 3D
  Explore in 3D needs a Google Maps key with the Maps JavaScript API enabled. Here is how to turn it on and what customers see.
• Google sign-in for customers
  Let customers sign in with Google by creating an OAuth client and pasting the Client ID and secret, using the redirect address VisionScaper shows.
• Facebook sign-in for customers
  Create a Meta app, add the redirect address VisionScaper shows, and paste the App ID and App secret.
• fal.ai key and what it powers
  The fal.ai key powers AI Smart Select, item identification and several AI helpers. Paste it once and set daily limits.
• Black Forest Labs FLUX key and model
  The Black Forest Labs key makes VisionScaper AI images. Paste the key, keep the default model, and set the daily limit.
• Vision model setting
  The Vision model box chooses which language and vision model fal.ai runs for identify, helpers and checks.
• Pl@ntNet key for plant identification
  Add a Pl@ntNet key so Plant ID can name plants and weeds from photos, with fal.ai as a backup.
• Twilio text messaging setup
  Connect Twilio so VisionScaper can send and receive texts, including the registration US carriers require.
• Telnyx text messaging and failover
  Use Telnyx as your main text service or as a backup to Twilio on the VisionScaper Messaging page.
• Stripe setup (credits, storage and contractor payments)
  Paste your Stripe secret key and webhook signing secret to sell credits and storage and to let contractors get paid online.
• Email providers (Postmark, Resend, SendGrid, Amazon SES, site mail)
  Choose how VisionScaper sends marketing and system email, and where each provider's key goes.
• AI Receptionist provider keys (Retell, Vapi, Bland, ElevenLabs and more)
  Paste the keys for the voice-agent engine, the voice layer and the phone carrier on the VisionScaper AI Receptionist page.
• Expo access token for the phone app
  Push notifications go through Expo. You only need an access token if Expo's enhanced push security is on.
• Connecting QuickBooks Online
  Create an Intuit app, paste its Client ID and secret into Connected apps, and choose how customers, invoices and payments sync.
• Connecting Xero
  Send customers, invoices and payments one-way to Xero by pasting a Client ID and secret and choosing account codes.
• Google Contacts sync and calendar feeds
  Sync customers with Google Contacts, and subscribe Google Calendar to a private VisionScaper calendar feed.
• OSRM routing server address
  Point VisionScaper at your own OSRM server for driving distances when you do not use a Google server key.
• Map tiles and aerial imagery settings
  Set the door-to-door map tiles and the aerial image service used outside Connecticut.
• Connect other tools overview (access keys, alerts, Zapier)
  What the Connect other tools screen does, who can use it, and how its four tabs fit together.
• Creating access keys and choosing scopes
  Make a named access key, choose its scopes, copy it once, and turn it off when it is no longer needed.
• API authentication and base URL
  How to send your access key as a Bearer token, the starting address, and a first test with the ping route.
• API routes reference (api/v1 and zap)
  Every public route, its method, the scope it needs, and the filters it accepts.
• API request and response examples
  Worked examples for listing, creating and updating customers and leads, with what comes back.
• API errors, 402 and 429, and rate limits
  The standard error shape, each status code you may see, and how the hourly limit and Retry-After work.
• Idempotency-Key for safe retries
  Add an Idempotency-Key header to writes so a retry never creates a duplicate.
• Alerts (webhooks): setup and events
  Add an alert address, choose events like lead.created or invoice.paid, and copy the signing secret.
• Verifying an alert's HMAC-SHA256 signature
  Check that an alert really came from VisionScaper using the X-VisionScaper-Signature header and your secret, with PHP, Node and Python examples.
• Alert retries, auto-disable and delivery logs
  How failed alerts are retried, when an alert switches itself off, and how to read the log and send again.
• Connecting Zapier (triggers and actions)
  VisionScaper has no published Zapier app. Connect with Webhooks by Zapier or your own private app, using an access key.
• Security: two-step sign-in, login history and signing out devices
  Turn on authenticator-app sign-in, keep recovery codes, review sign-in history, and recover if you are locked out.
• Customer records, data export, erasing and privacy requests
  How contractor-only records work, how to export or erase data, how customers delete their account, and GDPR-style requests.
• Cron, WP-CLI, caching, SSL and REST troubleshooting (401, 403, 404)
  Keep scheduled jobs running, avoid cache problems, require https, and fix REST 401, 403 and 404 errors.