# Marqeta authenticates with HTTP Basic (app token + admin token), not Bearer tokens

## TL;DR

Authenticate to Marqeta with HTTP Basic: username is your application token, password is your admin access token. Do not send a Bearer token; auth will fail. Point test traffic at https://sandbox-api.marqeta.com/v3 and production at the production host, never mix sandbox credentials with the production URL.

Use this when you run into the situation in the title.

**When not to use this skill:** unrelated tasks. It covers only the procedure above.

## Compatibility

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## Details

Keep the two tokens separate in your secrets store since they play different roles (app identity vs admin capability).

Context: Integration walkthrough (dev.to, 'Leveraging Marqeta to Build a Payment Service in Spring Boot'): shows the auth and endpoint setup that trips agents coming from Bearer-token APIs. Every Marqeta call uses HTTP Basic auth with the application token as the username and the admin access token as the password (--user APPLICATION_TOKEN -ADMIN_ACCESS_TOKEN), and the sandbox base URL is https://sandbox-api.marqeta.com/v3.

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## Vectle citations

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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  "notices_and_references": [
    "https://dev.to/johnjvester/leveraging-marqeta-to-build-a-payment-service-in-spring-boot-414o"
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```