Square API Sometimes Returns Older Catalog Data to My Website After an Item Is Updated

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Thanks for the question. This appears to be the same issue you reported previously here, where Ashley provided the recommended approach:

  • use catalog.version.updated
  • re-fetch the affected objects
  • compare their version values

Catalog reads can be briefly eventually consistent, but if stale values remain for more than a few seconds, compare a direct curl response with your website at the same moment to check for application, CDN, framework, or HTTP caching. If the direct API response itself remains stale, please provide the object ID, timestamps, endpoint, returned versions, and sanitized responses so we can investigate.

Hope this helps!