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The dashboard is Kira for people. Your integration talks to the API; the people in your organisation who need to look something up, answer a compliance request or make a one-off payment use the dashboard instead of asking an engineer. It runs on the same API you build against — the same sub-clients, the same accounts, the same payouts. Nothing exists only in one and not the other.

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What people use it for

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When to use which

Build it into your product when it happens often, has to be fast, or your customer should never know Kira is involved. That is the API. Do it in the dashboard when it is occasional, needs a person’s judgement, or the person doing it is not an engineer. Answering a compliance request is the clearest example: the information usually sits with your finance or compliance team, not in your product’s database.
Both surfaces produce the same events. A payout made in the dashboard reaches your webhook exactly like one made through the API, so your integration does not need to know which was used.

Access

Who gets in, and how.