I wanted to check if there is any supported way to verify a user’s active subscription externally (API, webhook, callback, or embedded auth signal).
Our use case is embedding Pickaxe inside an app / APK, where we need to reliably confirm whether a user is on a paid plan before allowing certain actions (e.g. shopping runs, media picker access).
Specifically:
Can embedded Pickaxe correctly pass or expose subscription/plan status?
Is there any external verification method available or planned?
This is critical for preventing abuse and enabling proper pricing logic.
Thanks in advance any guidance or workarounds would be appreciated.
Pickaxe provides a Studio API that allows you to retrieve a Studio user by email. By calling GET /studio/user/<email>, you can fetch the user record and inspect the boughtProducts and giftedProducts fields. These fields reflect which products the user has access to and can be used to validate whether they should be allowed to perform paid or restricted actions in your app.
If you prefer, this same “find user by email” capability is also available through our Zapier and Make integrations, where you can check the user’s associated products and gate workflows accordingly.
If their subscription allows a certain number of actions/credits per month, is that available?
Can you please point me to the relevant docs so that I don’t have to ask/bother again?
I did try Google, but they told me they didn’t know:
”The query pickaxe.co GET /studio/user/ appears to be a request for information about a specific API endpoint related to user data within the Pickaxe Studio platform.
Based on available information from the Pickaxe community and documentation, there is no public API endpoint in the format GET /studio/user/. User management functions are primarily handled through the Pickaxe Studio Manager interface.”
Thanks for the great news! This allow us to build our app retaining Pickaxe as the monetization function.
When you retrieve a user via the Studio API using GET /studio/user/, the response includes usage-related fields such as currentUses, extraUses, and totalUses. The same data is also exposed through our Zapier and Make integrations if you prefer not to call the API directly.
For documentation, you can find details about the Studio API in your Studio dashboard under Settings → API Documentation. We also have this walkthrough video: