Title: API confusion ?
Last modified: November 14, 2018

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# API confusion ?

 *  Resolved [daveporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveporter/)
 * (@daveporter)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-confusion/)
 * Hi there,
    Looking forward to using this plugin, but I am unsure why there are
   two fields for the API. Browser and Server!!! What API Key goes in them ? I can
   find no documentation on this ?
 * TIA, Dave

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 *  Plugin Author [Sofyan Sitorus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofyansitorus/)
 * (@sofyansitorus)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-confusion/#post-10878378)
 * Hi Dave,
 * Thank you for interesting to use this plugin. The reason why it need 2 different
   API Keys because it will be used in 2 different purpose. The Browser API is used
   when you setting the Admin Area to get your store location info. And the Server
   API is used to calculate the distance for customer address and your store location.
   As Google does not allow you to specify both an HTTP referrer restriction (for
   the admin map usage) and an IP address restriction (for the server-side distance
   matrix calculation) so need to split it in 2 different API keys. The version 
   1.4 and earlier is just using 1 API Key, and which mean that the API Key cannot
   be restricted at any type. And many users complaining about security as the API
   Key cannot be restricted.
 * I hope this the answer of your question.
 * Sofyan
 *  Thread Starter [daveporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveporter/)
 * (@daveporter)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-confusion/#post-10878386)
 * Thanks Sofyan, so are you saying the two API keys are just two different ones,
   being created via the same procedure ?
    If so, perhaps the documentation needs
   to make this clear ???
 * Also I see there is a paid version coming – can you shed some light on what extra
   features it will have, the cost and how long away it is ?
 * Kind regards, Dave
 *  Plugin Author [Sofyan Sitorus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofyansitorus/)
 * (@sofyansitorus)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-confusion/#post-10878399)
 * Hi [@daveporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveporter/),
 * I will recommended you to use different API keys for each setting field. And 
   restrict it based on their purpose. If you hover the question mark icon that 
   appear on the left edge input field, you will see a tooltip for the short explanation.
 * Yeah I am planning to release the PRO version which has some extra features and
   priority support. Below is some sneak peak for the features that planned to be
   add for the start:
    - Meters level distance calculation accuracy.
    - Set rule for each rates rows: Minimum Order Quantity.
    - Set rule for each rates rows: Maximum Order Quantity.
    - Set rule for each rates rows: Minimum Order Amount.
    - Set rule for each rates rows: Maximum Order Amount.
    - Set Advanced Math Formula to calculate total shipping cost for each rates 
      rows.
    - Use map address picker for customer during checkout.
    - Multiple instances within the same shipping zone.
 * Sofyan
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [Sofyan Sitorus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofyansitorus/).

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