# STX Apps

> Sign up to STX Apps to build an app for STX members, refer players as an affiliate, or read STX market data with credentials of your own.

Source: https://docs.stxapp.io/apps/

> **Availability.** Available on US demo now. Live access is coming soon in the US and Ontario. See [Environments](https://docs.stxapp.io/environments/).

**STX Apps is where you sign up to build on STX for other people.** It has three tracks: build an app that STX members connect to their account, send players to STX as an affiliate, or read STX market data in your own product. You sign up once at [apps.stxapp.io](https://apps.stxapp.io), create an organization, and get demo access straight away.

## Is STX Apps for you?

Ask one question: **is it your own account, or someone else's?**

- **Your own account.** Scripts, algos, automation, market making and adding liquidity all trade on your own account, even when the account belongs to a firm. You don't need STX Apps for that: create an API key in your STX account and sign your requests. Start at [Quick start](/quick-start/) and [Request signing](/api/authentication/).
- **Someone else's members, public data, or referrals.** That is STX Apps. An app acts for members with their consent, a data integrator reads public market data with credentials of its own, and an affiliate sends players with links.

## The three tracks

| Track | For | What you get | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Apps** | Developers building apps that members connect to their STX account | An OAuth client with the scopes you pick. Members approve each one on STX. An app can also [list its own markets](/apps/creating-markets/) through the [Apps API](/apps/api/). See [Build an app](/apps/overview/) | US demo now. Live access coming soon in the US and Ontario. In Ontario an app reads public market data only and does not act for members |
| **Affiliates** | Publishers, creators, tipsters and communities | Your own affiliate ID, tracking links, campaigns, reports and postbacks. No code. See [Affiliates](/affiliates/) | US demo now. Live access coming soon in the US and Ontario. Ontario is waitlisted |
| **Data** | Odds sites, media, research and trading tools | Server-to-server credentials that read the public market catalogue, prices, depth and events. See [Market data](/market-data/) | US demo now. Live access coming soon in the US and Ontario. Ontario is waitlisted |

An organization can use more than one track.

### Demo first

Everything starts in the demo environment, with test funds and no real money. The US demo runs at [demo.stxapp.io](https://demo.stxapp.io), the same API that live access will use, so what you build there carries over unchanged. See [Environments](/environments/).

### Live access

Live access opens when STX Apps goes live in your region. Until then everything runs in demo. Apps also go through a review of their listing and the permissions they ask for before they go live.

### Ontario

The STX exchange in Ontario is live for trading. In Ontario an app reads public market data only (`market_data` and `events`) and does not act for members, which is what the Data track gives you. The Affiliates and Data tracks are waitlisted in Ontario for now: you can choose Ontario when you sign up and your organization records it, and STX emails you when Ontario demo access opens. See [United States and Canada](/concepts/us-and-canada/).

## Sign up

1. Go to [apps.stxapp.io](https://apps.stxapp.io) and pick your door: [apps](https://apps.stxapp.io/developers), [affiliates](https://apps.stxapp.io/affiliates) or [market data](https://apps.stxapp.io/data).
2. Create your account, confirm your email from the link STX Apps sends you, and name your organization. Demo keys are issued only after your email is confirmed.
3. Choose where you work: the US, Ontario, or both, for the tracks each offers.
4. Accept the agreement for your track and start in demo.

Building and testing in demo is free. STX shares the terms for live access before you go live.

## Your organization and its roles

Everything in STX Apps belongs to an organization: its apps, data credentials, affiliate links and reports. Owners and admins invite the rest of the team, and each person has one role.

| Role | Can |
| --- | --- |
| Owner | Everything, including renaming the organization and making others owners |
| Admin | Members and invitations, agreements, app secrets, data keys, referral links and payee details. Everything except owner-only settings |
| App developer | Create and edit apps: redirect URIs, scopes and demo testing. Sees client IDs; admins handle secrets |
| Data developer | Set up market data access, get new data keys and see usage |
| Marketer | Create, rename and archive referral links and campaigns, set up postbacks, and see the funnel and reports. No payee details |
| Finance | See earnings and statements, and keep payee details up to date. Cannot create links |
| Viewer | See everything in the organization and change nothing |

An organization is offered the roles of the tracks it uses, so an affiliate team sees Marketer and Finance, not App developer.

## Next

- [Build an app](/apps/overview/): Act for STX members with their consent, over OAuth.
- [List your own markets](/apps/creating-markets/): Create player-prop markets on STX events from your server, then quote them.
- [Affiliates](/affiliates/): Send players to STX with your own links, and follow every step to a first trade.
- [Market data](/market-data/): Read markets, prices, depth and events with server-to-server credentials.