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By creating a Carbon account, you automatically have a production API key (useable on [api.carbon.money](/content/site-root.html)). However, Carbon's team must approve your account for you to use it.

> ### 📘  Retrieving your API Key programatically
>
> Remember, your API Key (or UUID) can also be found by [retrieving your JWT](/content/site-root.html) on either the production or sandbox api routes. It is also available via the dashboard.

## Response using unapproved API Key

JSON

```json
{
  "message":"Unapproved superuser. Please contact Carbon to approve",
  "code":403
}
```

API Key viewer on developer dashboard (www.carbon.money)

> ### 🚧  Go Live
>
> Contact **[approve [at] carbon.money](/#0c6d7c7c7e637a694c6f6d7e6e6362226163626975)** to approve your Production API key
>
> Requirements:
>
> - KYC / AML checks for main contact and company (see [here](/content/docs-sub/docs/kyb/index.html) for more)
> - Surcharge Structuring (Optional) - if you want to charge dynamic surcharges to your users and negotiate revenue share with Carbon.
> - Loan Allocation (Optional) - if you want to provide custom liquidity to your integration if say we are integrating your token
> - Payment Gateway (Optional) - if you are going to be providing quotes and liquidity for our integration and we will just be providing payments processing
> - Settlement (Optional) - if you have applied a surcharge, allocated a loan, and/or integrated as a payment gateway, determining the execution of payment for sales through our integration
>
> You will also receive technical support hotlines 🔥