API Integration (desktop)

The desktop app places orders in your own broker account and, for most brokers, gets its prices from there too. To allow that, your broker gives you an API key (sometimes with a secret), you approve the static IP our orders come from, and you give the desktop your TOTP key so it can log in by itself. You do this once.

Every guide follows the same five steps:

• 1. In the desktop app — Brokers page → your broker card → Get static IP. Copy the IP and the redirect URL.
• 2. On your broker’s website — create an API app, paste the IP (and redirect URL), and copy the API key and secret.
• 3. TOTP — turn on TOTP at your broker and copy the TOTP key.
• 4. Back in the desktop app — fill in the card.
• 5. Connect — click Connect and check it says Connected till 11:59 pm. After that, just Connect once each trading day.

Open the guide for your broker:

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The desktop and the website use the same API app, key and secret, and the same static IP and redirect URL. If your broker already works on the website, skip the broker-website steps: copy the same key and secret into the desktop card, add the TOTP key, and Connect.

One exception: . The website works with a free Personal app, but the desktop needs a paid Connect app for prices — see the  guide.

The desktop gets live prices from your own broker. Three brokers send prices only with a paid plan in your name. We cannot buy it for you, and the desktop never borrows prices from another broker.

• — the Data APIs plan, Rs 499 + GST per month (9 Nov 2026).
• — a Connect app on Kite Connect, 500 credits (Rs 500) for 30 days (9 Nov 2026).
• — the Trade API subscription, Rs 499 + taxes per month, an early-bird price (9 Nov 2026).
• , , , ,  and  need no extra plan for prices.

Everything you type in a broker card — keys, password, PIN, TOTP key — is saved encrypted on this computer only. It is never sent to Trade Apps, and support cannot see it or recover it.

On a second computer, type the details once more. Never share them with anyone, including us.

Broker sessions end at midnight. Each trading day, open the Brokers page and press Connect once before the market opens. Trade Disc and Trade Scalper both use that one connection.

If Connect fails, the reason is written in red on the card. Each broker guide ends with the usual fixes; if you are still stuck, WhatsApp 9398840360 with a screenshot of the card.