Greetings,
Some background:
We have a setup where we have more than 100 domains where we want to enable ApplePay. At the moment we use normal web merchants and are able to support only 99domains, but are moving towards the registerMerchant API ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepaywebmerchantregistrationapi/registermerchantrequest) so that we can create multiple internal merchant IDs to support more than a 100 domains.
One more important thing to note here is that we have 2 merchants for web, Merchant A and merchant B, and they are linked to different payment gateways and we need to support both due to some business logic.
So theoretically, if we have 140 domains, we want to register all 140 of these under both web merchants (A & B). Since each merchant can support 99, we plan on distributing the 140 domains across the merchant by using the registerMerchant API where we'll be creating internal merchant identifiers, for example, Merchant.A.1, Merchant.A.2, Merchant.B.1, and Merchant.B.2. Thus, we will be able to support all 140 domains on both.
While setting up, we noticed that we got a txt file for merchant A and B. We placed the txt file under the .wellknown path for merchant A and used the registerMerchant API to add a domain under merchant.A.1 and it worked. A few questions around this:
- When we try to register the same domain under Merchant B, it works too even though the txt file is missing there for Merchant B. is this because domains are verified on an account level and not merchant level? And can we rely on this behaviour to always work? Can we say that registering all our 140 domains with merchant A, would ensure that when we try to verify them under Merchant B, it'll automatically work ( ofcourse we need to call the registerMerchant API,I am trying to understand the actual verification process)
- When these domains are near expiration, the current re-verification process calls the same path to re-verify the domain. When using multiple merchants, which merchant txt file would be expected? Both? or just the original one?
Please let me know if there are any better ways of doing what we are trying to achieve and if they are documented anywhere.
Thank you!