Brands (Connect-Brand)

The Connect products (Connect Ramp, Connect Treasury, Connect Commerce, Sub-Platforms) are sold under three brands. A brand is not a product and not a path: every brand uses the same routes under /api/connect/*.

How the brand is picked

For every /api/connect/* request, in this order:

1. the Connect-Brand header: connectpay, paylink or shogun;

2. the request domain (Origin, then Host):

   Domain	Brand
   *.paylink.business, *.paylink.cool	paylink
   *.shogun.cash	shogun
   *.connectpay.me, *.openconnect.cc	connectpay

3. otherwise connectpay.

curl -s https://api.goldrail.xyz/api/connect/ramp/core/sessions \
  -H "X-API-Key: gr_live_..." \
  -H "Connect-Brand: shogun" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "flow": "onramp", "amount": 10000, "asset": "XOF" }'

The brand decides the hosted pages, the link domains and the copy your users see. Responses carry it in surface: opay (Connect Pay), paylink or shogun.

On api.openconnect.cc, /connect/* is the same as /api/connect/*.

Business brands (Sub-Platforms)

A platform chooses the brand under which it offers Sub-Platforms to its businesses. Each brand has its own domain, one app behind them:

PayLink Business and Shogun Business are shown by Open Connect. Sign-in always goes through login.openconnect.cc (passkeys are bound to the Open Connect domain). White-label Sub-Platforms (sub_profile_type: custom) use none of these domains: they go through their platform's own app.

No brand paths

The old brand mounts (/api/paylink, /api/connectpay, /api/shogun, /api/openconnect/ocpay) were removed on 2026-10-20 and return 404. See the changelog for the old → new map.