# Create and manage your API token
Application access tokens are created and managed in the Sesame Application. Due to the sensitivity of the information available from Sesame Data, token management is closely controlled. Within your Sesame Application, only users who are Account Administrators will be able to create and manage tokens. However, as this is an application token, any user with the token can make requests.
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Note that if you are not an Account Administrator, ask the Account Admin of your Sesame account to generate and send you the token Username and Password.
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## How to create an API Token
Once logged in to Sesame, in the `Sesame Data Experience`, Account Administrator users can generate a token from the `Destinations` menu: under `API` select `Tokens` and then `Create Token`.
The user is required to name the token and provide an expiration date. The field `Description` can be used to add more information about where the token is used. As Sesame has integrations to a growing list of partner software solutions, to assist in monitoring the usage of different tokens, the target software can be set from the list of available ones.
For security, after saving the token, Account Administrators will be notified by email of the newly created token. Sesame will also automatically email the token creator when the token is two days away from expiration to allow time for a new token to be created, helping to avoid connectivity disruptions.
To enhance security of their connections in the event a token is accidentally leaked, users can optionally utilise [ip-whitelisting](https://docs.landytech.com/sesame-data-v2/authentication/ip-whitelisting "mention").
## Reviewing, revoking and managing existing tokens
Post creation of a token, users can later retrieve the token password and username by selecting the `Edit` option. Users can also manage the name, description and whitelisted IPs. Users can revoke tokens that they no longer require. Revoked tokens stop working immediately.
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