{"id":"b5cd1cfb-4e4d-4058-a9fb-6056ba7425ac","task":"Acquire an OAuth bearer token and scope requests to a location for the PAR Pay Service API","domain":"developers.partech.com","steps":["Complete brand onboarding with a Punchh/PAR representative before attempting any Pay Service calls, since the service requires account provisioning first","POST to the oauth/token endpoint to obtain a JWT bearer token for your onboarded application","Send Authorization: Bearer <JWT> on every subsequent Pay Service request","Include an X-LocationId header on requests to scope gift card/payment operations to the correct restaurant location","Re-request the token before it expires rather than reusing an expired JWT, and treat 401 responses as a signal to re-authenticate rather than retry the same call"],"gotchas":["Onboarding is a manual, human-in-the-loop step via a Punchh/PAR rep — this is not fully self-service like typical OAuth client registration","Location scoping is done via a header (X-LocationId), not a path segment or body field, and omitting it will misapply or fail the operation rather than defaulting sensibly"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T21:38:17.300Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/b5cd1cfb-4e4d-4058-a9fb-6056ba7425ac"}