Facing error while creating a virtual account

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@krutd33 Just breaking down the steps so we can ensure everything is working, I’m going to try this in our postman collection as well:

Step 1) We need to create a Connector (so we need a connector setup very similar to a Google or Microsoft), so that’s the first call to:
https://api.us.nylas.com/v3/connectors

This will let us create virtual calendars. We are still at this step based on your message.

Step 2) Next we need to create an actual user account, so a virtual user account, so the call will be do:
https://api.us.nylas.com/v3/connect/custom

Step 3) By creating a virtual user account, we should receive a grant_id that we can use to create virtual calendars, using this call:
https://api.us.nylas.com/v3/grants/:grant_id/calendars

So let’s go back to Step 1, let me try this out via postman, and I was able to create one using the following cURL command shared by postman:

curl --location 'https://api.us.nylas.com/v3/connectors' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <NYLAS_API_KEY>' \
--data '{
  "provider": "virtual-calendar",
  "name": "nylas"
}'

The response was as follows:

{
    "request_id": "<REQUEST_ID>",
    "data": {
        "provider": "virtual-calendar"
    }
}

So one question for Step 1, for Authorization are you removing the keyword Bearer? We need to include Bearer so the Authorization should include: Bearer and the <NYLAS_API_KEY> (so the value nyk... taken from the API Keys on the v3 dashboard)

Another useful call I like to try to test things are working before re-trying creating a virtual connector is just grabbing the application details:

curl --location 'https://api.us.nylas.com/v3/applications' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <NYLAS_API_KEY>'