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# Environment

Pivot provides two environments for API Access. You can use our staging environments for development purposes. The production environment can be used after the application is ready to go live.

These are the available environments, which you can use in the integration process

<table><thead><tr><th width="154">Environment</th><th width="261">URL</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Production</strong></td><td>https://api.pivot-payment.com</td><td>Used for Production / Live</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Sandbox</strong></td><td>https://api-stg.pivot-payment.com</td><td>Used for Development and Testing</td></tr></tbody></table>