> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bindbee.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Go-Live checklist

> Verify an integration before production traffic reaches it.

Run this once the [ideal workflow](/guides/ideal-workflow) is built and before your first real customer connects.

## Before you go live

**Credentials**

* Production API key lives in a secret manager, redacted from logs and error tracking.
* No Development keys in the production path. They cannot read Production data.
* Connector tokens are encrypted at rest.

**Connections**

* `origin_id` is your stable internal tenant ID, not a name or an email.
* Token exchange runs server-side. It needs your API key and must never run in the browser.
* A reconnect path exists for `RELINK_NEEDED`, which never resolves on its own.

**Reading and writing**

* Pagination stops on `cursor == null`, not on a short page.
* Every field is treated as nullable, and no `switch` over an enum runs without a default - unmapped vendor values pass through verbatim. See [Enum values](/guides/reading-writing/enum-values).
* Writes carry `X-Idempotency-Key` - see [Idempotency](/guides/reading-writing/writing-data/idempotency). Passthrough takes no key, so check before retrying.
* Request bodies come from the Meta schema, not hardcoded.

**Reliability**

* `429` is retried using `Retry-After`; `5xx` with capped backoff; other `4xx` never.
* A scheduled reconciliation sweep exists. Webhook retries stop after \~60 seconds, so anything longer than a brief outage is lost silently.
* `integration_slug` is on every log line. It turns "some customers fail" into "Workday customers fail".
* Alerts fire on consecutive failures and on staleness, not on single transient errors.

**Your customers**

* Data age is shown - "Last synced 4 hours ago". This is the biggest single reduction in support volume.
* First-sync state looks different from an empty account.
* Manual resync is throttled, and nothing resyncs on a timer.

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## Related

* [Ideal workflow](/guides/ideal-workflow) - the build order this checklist verifies.
* [Troubleshooting](/guides/troubleshooting/overview) - the order to debug a connector in, once you are live.
* [Sync status](/guides/troubleshooting/sync-status) - building the health surface your support team reads.
* [Syncing](/guides/reading-writing/syncing) - how and when Bindbee refreshes data.
* [Platform](/get-started/platform) - the Dashboard changelog, worth checking before each release.