Lithic Card Authorizations API

Responses to real-time authorization challenges.

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/account-holders-kyc
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/account-holders-kyb
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APIReference
https://docs.lithic.com/reference/getaccountholders
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/spend-limits
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APIReference
https://docs.lithic.com/reference/getaccounts
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/cards
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/managing-cards
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/physical-cards-setup-guide
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APIReference
https://docs.lithic.com/reference/postcards
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/transaction-flow
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/transactions
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/simulating-transactions
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APIReference
https://docs.lithic.com/reference/postsimulateauthorize
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/authorization-rules-v2
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/about-authorization-intelligence
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/auth-stream-access-asa
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/about-3ds
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/3ds-decisioning
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/disputes-api
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/tracking-disputes
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APIReference
https://docs.lithic.com/reference/postdisputes
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/events-api
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/simulating-webhooks
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/financial-accounts
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/ledger-overview
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/payments-api
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/ach-overview
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/ach-payments-lifecycle
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/book-transfers
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/settlement-reporting
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APIReference
https://docs.lithic.com/reference/getsettlementdetails
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/external-accounts-api
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/disbursements
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/about-digital-wallets
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/push-provisioning
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Documentation
https://docs.lithic.com/docs/web-push-provisioning
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APIReference
https://docs.lithic.com/reference/getfraudreport

Specifications

OpenAPI Specification

lithic-com-card-authorizations-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Lithic 3DS Card Authorizations API
  description: The Lithic API is a card issuing and issuer-processor platform for issuing virtual and physical cards, authorizing and clearing transactions, moving money across ledgered financial accounts, and managing the full card lifecycle - KYC/KYB account holder onboarding, authorization rules and real-time Auth Stream Access (ASA) decisioning, disputes, tokenization into digital wallets, 3DS authentication, ACH payments, book transfers, external payments, settlement reporting, and fraud/transaction monitoring. This document curates the real, published Lithic OpenAPI 3.1 definitions (https://github.com/lithic-com/lithic-openapi) into the endpoint surface referenced by this apis.yml, expressed as OpenAPI 3.0.3 with lightweight response schemas. Requests are authenticated with an API key sent as the raw value of the Authorization header (not a Bearer token).
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Lithic
    url: https://www.lithic.com
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
servers:
- url: https://api.lithic.com
  description: Production
- url: https://sandbox.lithic.com
  description: Sandbox (mirrors production functionality)
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Card Authorizations
  description: Responses to real-time authorization challenges.
paths:
  /v1/card_authorizations/{event_token}/challenge_response:
    post:
      operationId: respondToAuthorizationChallenge
      tags:
      - Card Authorizations
      summary: Respond to Authorization Challenge
      description: Card program's response to Authorization Challenge. Programs that have Authorization Challenges configured as Out of Band receive a [card_authorization.challenge](https://docs.lithic.com/reference/post_card-authorization-challenge) webhook when an authorization attempt triggers a challenge. The card
      parameters:
      - name: event_token
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Globally unique identifier for the authorization event that triggered the challenge
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              additionalProperties: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CardAuthorizations'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
components:
  responses:
    ValidationError:
      description: The request failed validation.
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
  schemas:
    CardAuthorizations:
      type: object
      description: Responses to real-time authorization challenges.
      properties:
        token:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: Globally unique identifier for the object.
        created:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      additionalProperties: true
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: Raw API secret key value (not prefixed with "Bearer").