# Activation of account

**URL:** https://community.rapyd.net/t/activation-of-account/394
**Category:** 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️ Ask Questions
**Created:** [June 8, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/activation-of-account/394 "2021-06-08T10:13:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Hardik\_poudel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/hardik_poudel/32/867_2.png) [@Hardik\_poudel](https://community.rapyd.net/u/Hardik_poudel)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/activation-of-account/394/1 "2021-06-08T10:13:05Z")

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Do I need to activate my rapyd account to be able to use secret and access key in integrating API.?

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### Author: ![drew.harris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/drew.harris/32/1259_2.png) [@drew.harris](https://community.rapyd.net/u/drew.harris)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/activation-of-account/394/2 "2021-06-08T13:21:30Z")

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Hello @Hardik_poudel - for the [hackathon](https://rapydhack.devpost.com) you do not need to Activate your account (KYB)  
please slide the toggle to **Sandbox** , click on ‘ **Developers** ’ and you can grab your API keys to us in your solution.

 ![dash-keys@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/rapyd/original/1X/8859d7c1baa726043241a4085a414c677ab1e063.png)

If someone was a building for production then they would need to go through the [KYB activation process](https://docs.rapyd.net/build-with-rapyd/docs/activate-account-kyb) before they could have their [account](https://dashboard.rapyd.net/home) enabled.

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### Author: ![Hardik\_poudel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/hardik_poudel/32/867_2.png) [@Hardik\_poudel](https://community.rapyd.net/u/Hardik_poudel)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/activation-of-account/394/3 "2021-06-09T01:19:05Z")

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Thanks for the reply, i’ve got my secret and access key, but how do i create my auth headers

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### Author: ![drew.harris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/drew.harris/32/1259_2.png) [@drew.harris](https://community.rapyd.net/u/drew.harris)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/activation-of-account/394/4 "2021-06-09T01:28:06Z")

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If you download the postman from [First API Call](https://docs.rapyd.net/build-with-rapyd/docs/make-your-first-api-call) in documentation - the auth headers are built for you so you can play around with and then build in whatever flavor you want. We do not have samples of auth headers in various languages. Lastly, here is a link to the API Reference for [Request Signatures](https://docs.rapyd.net/build-with-rapyd/reference/message-security#request-signatures).

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### Author: ![CharlesDorsett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/charlesdorsett/32/47_2.png) [@CharlesDorsett](https://community.rapyd.net/u/CharlesDorsett)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/activation-of-account/394/5 "2021-06-09T11:13:11Z")

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Actually, the API Reference does provide detailed code examples for Java, NODE.js, Ruby, Python and PHP. See [Request Signatures](https://docs.rapyd.net/build-with-rapyd/reference/message-security#request-signatures). These show how to generate the **signature** , including methods for generating the **salt** and **timestamp**. **Content-Type** is a constant string. You get the **access\_key** from the Client Portal and it is the same in all your requests. **idempotency** is only relevant to [Create Payment](https://docs.rapyd.net/build-with-rapyd/reference/payment-object#create-payment).