Shift4 Payments Credits API

Send funds (credits) to recipients.

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shift4-payments-credits-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Shift4 Payments Blacklist Credits API
  description: The Shift4 Payments API enables merchants and platforms to accept and manage payments, including one-time charges, refunds, customers, cards, tokenization, subscriptions, plans, payment methods, payment links, checkout sessions, fraud warnings, blacklist rules, disputes, file uploads, payouts, webhook endpoints, and events. Endpoints, parameters, and resource shapes are extracted from the public Shift4 documentation at https://dev.shift4.com/docs/api and the official open-source Shift4 SDKs (Java, Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, iOS, Android, WooCommerce, Salesforce B2C) maintained at https://github.com/shift4developer.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Shift4 Developer Support
    email: devsupport@shift4.com
    url: https://dev.shift4.com
  license:
    name: Documentation
    url: https://dev.shift4.com/docs
servers:
- url: https://api.shift4.com
  description: Production
security:
- BasicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Credits
  description: Send funds (credits) to recipients.
paths:
  /credits:
    post:
      tags:
      - Credits
      summary: Create a Credit
      operationId: createCredit
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreditRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Credit created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Credit'
    get:
      tags:
      - Credits
      summary: List Credits
      operationId: listCredits
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of credits.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreditList'
  /credits/{creditId}:
    parameters:
    - name: creditId
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - Credits
      summary: Retrieve a Credit
      operationId: getCredit
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A credit object.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Credit'
components:
  schemas:
    Credit:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        created:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        amount:
          type: integer
        currency:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        card:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Card'
        customerId:
          type: string
        fast:
          type: boolean
        merchantAccountId:
          type: string
        disputed:
          type: boolean
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
        failureCode:
          type: string
        failureIssuerDeclineCode:
          type: string
        failureMessage:
          type: string
    CreditList:
      $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListResponseCredit'
    Card:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        created:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Unix timestamp.
        deleted:
          type: boolean
        first6:
          type: string
        last4:
          type: string
        fingerprint:
          type: string
        expMonth:
          type: string
        expYear:
          type: string
        cardholderName:
          type: string
        customerId:
          type: string
        brand:
          type: string
          description: Card brand.
          enum:
          - Visa
          - MasterCard
          - AmericanExpress
          - Discover
          - JCB
          - DinersClub
          - UnionPay
          - Other
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Credit
          - Debit
          - Prepaid
          - Other
        country:
          type: string
        addressLine1:
          type: string
        addressLine2:
          type: string
        addressCity:
          type: string
        addressState:
          type: string
        addressZip:
          type: string
        addressCountry:
          type: string
        issuer:
          type: string
        merchantAccountId:
          type: string
    CreditRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - amount
      - currency
      properties:
        amount:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        currency:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        cardId:
          type: string
        customerId:
          type: string
        fast:
          type: boolean
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
    ListResponseCredit:
      type: object
      properties:
        list:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Credit'
        hasMore:
          type: boolean
        totalCount:
          type: integer
  parameters:
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 100
        default: 10
      description: A limit on the number of objects to be returned.
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Use your secret API key as the username with an empty password.