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Before you can POST an order to the /orders
endpoint, you must first obtain the order price information for the order.
For an overview of the order creation process, including the step to obtain
the order prices, see Order creation process for the orders API.
To get the price information, you send a POST request to
the /prices endpoint of the orders API. The request contains an
Order object with the information about the order.
The /prices endpoint is the only reliable and supported
way to determine the payment amount for a check. If you POST an
order with a payment amount that does not match the results from the
/prices endpoint, then restaurant employees must manually
handle the underpayment or overpayment during order fulfillment.