Are there any Technical Scenario projects that actually work?
My App ID: sq0idp-zvfPyhP-puSoQbwoWL6duw
I am new here in 2026 and I want to seed a clean sandbox with fake store data by using the apis. Specifically related to Catalogs, Products & Inventory.
I have tried using the projects at Technical Scenarios
None of the apis work as it looks like the projects are out of date (around 2023).
I have struggled all day with help from Google Gemini to rewrite the seeding python files.
I finally managed to push some Catalog data into the sandbox but the image library does not work. (Not related to my code as even a clean sandbox does not display it)
So far I am not having a great experience with the Square eco-system. Seeding was horrible and still incomplete, Image library is not working, The Square UI is full of issues.
Hopefully you can help me improve my opinion as it looks like a great system.
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Commerce API: Sell, Process, Manage, and Book
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What technical scenario are you working with? The Sandbox Square Dashboard provides only a limited subset of the features available in the production Square Dashboard used by sellers, and some functionality available in production may be missing or behave differently in the sandbox. Square recommends using the Sandbox Square Dashboard for basic API testing only. For comprehensive testing and validation, rely on the API Explorer in Sandbox mode, which matches the behavior of our production APIs and provide reliable test coverage. 
Hi Bryan,
Thanks for the clarification.
I was intending to test the “Build a Sales Report“ scenario to get an idea of processes and flows of the system, but like I mentioned the scenario’s source code is out of date. In the Python files I had to convert all the endpoints in the code as they were deprecated and then I had to covert the object accessing processes. These are tasks I was not expecting to have to tackle when running a square sample project.
All I want to do is generate some real seed data for catalog items, images and inventory.
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Then after I have the seeded data working in the sandbox I want to access the data from a simple bespoke Angular or React app.
Is this possible?
I’ve reached out to the team about this but in the meantime seed data isn’t currently available with sandbox. We’re constantly working to improve our features based on feedback like this, so I’ll be sure to share your request to the API product team.
Great. Thanks for the update.
