Benevity Giving API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Benevity Authorization Giving API
  description: Modeled from the public Benevity API documentation at developer.benevity.org. Covers the confirmed Causes, Giving (donations), Receipts, and Spark (giving/volunteer opportunities) endpoints. Credentials are partner-gated (request-a-demo); this document reflects publicly documented paths and fields only - it does not fabricate an unverified full surface. The Location Services API is intentionally omitted here (see review.yml) because its exact request/response schema beyond the overview guide was not independently confirmed.
  version: '2024.8'
  contact:
    name: Benevity
    url: https://developer.benevity.org/
servers:
- url: https://skyline.benevity.org
  description: Giving, Causes, and Receipts API host
- url: https://api.benevity.org
  description: Spark API host (production)
- url: https://api.benevity-staging.org
  description: Spark API host (sandbox)
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Giving
paths:
  /donations:
    post:
      operationId: createPostpaidDonation
      tags:
      - Giving
      summary: Create a postpaid company donation
      description: Submits a donation settled monthly against a donation report invoiced to the client company, rather than captured immediately by card.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                destination:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    recipientId:
                      type: string
                    foundationId:
                      type: string
                funds:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    paymentType:
                      type: string
                    currencyCode:
                      type: string
                    amount:
                      type: integer
                      description: Amount in lowest currency denomination (e.g. cents).
                donor:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    fullName:
                      type: string
                    email:
                      type: string
                    receipted:
                      type: boolean
                    address:
                      type: object
                metadata:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties:
                    type: string
                  description: Up to 100 custom key/value pairs.
              required:
              - destination
              - funds
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Donation accepted
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: string
                    description: UUID
                  type:
                    type: string
                    example: donations
                  destination:
                    type: object
                  funds:
                    type: object
                  donor:
                    type: object
                  metadata:
                    type: object
                  state:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      processingStatus:
                        type: string
                        example: ACCEPTED
                      statusLastUpdated:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
  /payments/card/transactions:
    post:
      operationId: createCreditCardDonation
      tags:
      - Giving
      summary: Create a prepaid credit card donation
      description: Captures a donation immediately via a tokenized card payment (BlueSnap-backed processor), optionally split across multiple cause allocations, with optional Gift Aid (UK) handling.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                companyCode:
                  type: string
                total:
                  type: integer
                currencyCode:
                  type: string
                paymentConfig:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    token:
                      type: string
                    merchantAccountId:
                      type: string
                    processor:
                      type: string
                      example: BLUESNAP
                cardHolder:
                  type: object
                referenceNumber:
                  type: string
                adapter:
                  type: string
                  example: Adapter.General
                purchaseItems:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      itemTotalAmountCents:
                        type: integer
                      allocations:
                        type: array
                        items:
                          type: object
                          properties:
                            causeCode:
                              type: string
                            amountCents:
                              type: integer
                giftAid:
                  type: boolean
                description:
                  type: string
                softDescriptor:
                  type: string
                payerBusinessName:
                  type: string
              required:
              - companyCode
              - total
              - currencyCode
              - paymentConfig
              - referenceNumber
              - purchaseItems
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Transaction created
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  transactionId:
                    type: string
                  creditCardId:
                    type: string
                  processorTransactionId:
                    type: string
                  referenceNumber:
                    type: string
                  backendReceiptId:
                    type: string
                  amount:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      totalAmountCents:
                        type: integer
                      currencyCode:
                        type: string
                  transactionFee:
                    type: number
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
externalDocs:
  description: Benevity API Documentation
  url: https://developer.benevity.org/