# Independent API Credential per Sub-account

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/independent-api-credential-per-sub-account/28028>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [August 24, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/independent-api-credential-per-sub-account/28028 "2020-08-24T21:47:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hansk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc8723/32.png) [@hansk](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/hansk)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/independent-api-credential-per-sub-account/28028/1 "2020-08-24T21:47:34Z")

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**Description**  
Can each sub-account provision its own API Key and Secret independent from the other sub-accounts and the Master account itself?

**Error**  
NA

**Which App Type (OAuth / Chatbot / JWT / Webhook)?**  
JWT

**Which Endpoint/s?**  
NA

**How To Reproduce (If applicable)**  
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**Screenshots (If applicable)**  
NA

**Additional context**  
For integration purposes, giving out API credentials on the Master account level may pose a security risk, so curious if by creating sub-accounts, the API scope can be limited/isolated to just that sub-account.

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/independent-api-credential-per-sub-account/28028/2 "2020-08-24T21:47:38Z")

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Hey @hansk

Thanks for posting on the Zoom Devforum! I am still learning, but I will try my best to help answer your question. 🙂

Checkout these related threads that may have the answer you are looking for:

> [@List sub-accounts of a sub-account](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/-/3099):
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> Hello Team, we have a master account and under us there are also subreseller. With API v2 is there a way to retrieve the subacounts of a subaccount? I see that there is a way to retrieve the users of a subaccount but we need the subaccounts of a subaccount, something like /v2/accounts/accountid/accounts right now I only can get the users with /v2/accounts/accountid/users but this is not so useful for us. With API v1 I have to take the key and token for each subaccount and retrieve the subacc…

> [@Using Sub-accounts with the REST API](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/-/1472):
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> We are looking for a way track the usage of Zoom across each of our departments and partners. Using the API Plan, our&nbsp;idea is to Create sub-accounts for each of our partners then use the sub-accounts to create meetings. In this way we can see which divisions are using what amount of zoom minutes. Is this a reasonable way of doing this? Is there a better way?

If these threads did not help, please let us know by replying back here and someone from the Developer Relations team will get back to you shortly.

Thanks,  
DeveloperBot

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/independent-api-credential-per-sub-account/28028/3 "2020-09-24T07:47:42Z")

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