Simulate Card Authorization
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
--data '
{
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": {
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
},
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": true
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations"
payload = {
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": {
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
},
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": True
}
headers = {
"x-api-key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
card_id: '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
amount: 10000000,
merchant: {
name: '<string>',
category: '<string>',
city: '<string>',
postal_code: '<string>',
network_id: '<string>',
terminal_id: '<string>',
url: '<string>'
},
currency: 'USD',
is_amount_controllable: true
})
};
fetch('https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")
.header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'card_id' => '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
'amount' => 10000000,
'merchant' => [
'name' => '<string>',
'category' => '<string>',
'city' => '<string>',
'postal_code' => '<string>',
'network_id' => '<string>',
'terminal_id' => '<string>',
'url' => '<string>'
],
'currency' => 'USD',
'is_amount_controllable' => true
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json",
"x-api-key: <api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}const url = 'https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations';
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
card_id: '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
amount: 10000000,
merchant: {
name: '<string>',
category: '<string>',
city: '<string>',
postal_code: '<string>',
network_id: '<string>',
terminal_id: '<string>',
url: '<string>'
},
currency: 'USD',
is_amount_controllable: true
})
};
fetch(url, options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(json => console.log(json))
.catch(err => console.error(err));using RestSharp;
var options = new RestClientOptions("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations");
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("");
request.AddHeader("x-api-key", "<api-key>");
request.AddJsonBody("{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}", false);
var response = await client.PostAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine("{0}", response.Content);val client = OkHttpClient()
val mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json")
val body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}")
val request = Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")
.post(body)
.addHeader("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.build()
val response = client.newCall(request).execute()import Foundation
let parameters = [
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": [
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
],
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": true
] as [String : Any?]
let postData = try JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])
let url = URL(string: "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.timeoutInterval = 10
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = [
"x-api-key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
]
request.httpBody = postData
let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)
print(String(decoding: data, as: UTF8.self))falsefalse$headers=@{}
$headers.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations' -Method POST -Headers $headers -ContentType 'application/json' -Body '{
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": {
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
},
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": true
}'{
"authorization_id": "<string>",
"amount": "<string>",
"approved": true,
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"<string>"
],
"msg": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}
]
}Sandbox
Simulate Card Authorization
⚠️ Sandbox & development only. Simulation endpoints are not available in production and return
404 Not Foundthere.
Simulates a card authorization in the sandbox and returns the resulting authorization, its status, and whether it was approved.
POST
/
simulations
/
card_authorizations
Simulate Card Authorization
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
--data '
{
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": {
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
},
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": true
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations"
payload = {
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": {
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
},
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": True
}
headers = {
"x-api-key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
card_id: '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
amount: 10000000,
merchant: {
name: '<string>',
category: '<string>',
city: '<string>',
postal_code: '<string>',
network_id: '<string>',
terminal_id: '<string>',
url: '<string>'
},
currency: 'USD',
is_amount_controllable: true
})
};
fetch('https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")
.header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'card_id' => '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
'amount' => 10000000,
'merchant' => [
'name' => '<string>',
'category' => '<string>',
'city' => '<string>',
'postal_code' => '<string>',
'network_id' => '<string>',
'terminal_id' => '<string>',
'url' => '<string>'
],
'currency' => 'USD',
'is_amount_controllable' => true
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json",
"x-api-key: <api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}const url = 'https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations';
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
card_id: '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
amount: 10000000,
merchant: {
name: '<string>',
category: '<string>',
city: '<string>',
postal_code: '<string>',
network_id: '<string>',
terminal_id: '<string>',
url: '<string>'
},
currency: 'USD',
is_amount_controllable: true
})
};
fetch(url, options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(json => console.log(json))
.catch(err => console.error(err));using RestSharp;
var options = new RestClientOptions("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations");
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("");
request.AddHeader("x-api-key", "<api-key>");
request.AddJsonBody("{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}", false);
var response = await client.PostAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine("{0}", response.Content);val client = OkHttpClient()
val mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json")
val body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\n \"card_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n \"amount\": 10000000,\n \"merchant\": {\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"category\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n \"network_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"terminal_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"url\": \"<string>\"\n },\n \"currency\": \"USD\",\n \"is_amount_controllable\": true\n}")
val request = Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")
.post(body)
.addHeader("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.build()
val response = client.newCall(request).execute()import Foundation
let parameters = [
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": [
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
],
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": true
] as [String : Any?]
let postData = try JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])
let url = URL(string: "https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations")!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.timeoutInterval = 10
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = [
"x-api-key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
]
request.httpBody = postData
let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)
print(String(decoding: data, as: UTF8.self))falsefalse$headers=@{}
$headers.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://api.meow.com/v1/simulations/card_authorizations' -Method POST -Headers $headers -ContentType 'application/json' -Body '{
"card_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"amount": 10000000,
"merchant": {
"name": "<string>",
"category": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"network_id": "<string>",
"terminal_id": "<string>",
"url": "<string>"
},
"currency": "USD",
"is_amount_controllable": true
}'{
"authorization_id": "<string>",
"amount": "<string>",
"approved": true,
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"<string>"
],
"msg": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}
]
}Authorizations
Your Meow API key, sent in the x-api-key header for authentication.
Headers
Optional entity_id to scope requests to a specific entity.
Body
application/json
The card to authorize against, as returned by Create Card.
The authorization amount, in dollars.
Required range:
0 < x <= 20000000The merchant presenting the authorization.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes
The ISO 4217 currency of the authorization.
Available options:
AED, AFN, ALL, AMD, ANG, AOA, ARS, AUD, AWG, AZN, BAM, BBD, BDT, BGN, BHD, BIF, BMD, BND, BOB, BOV, BRL, BSD, BTN, BWP, BYN, BZD, CAD, CDF, CHE, CHF, CHW, CLF, CLP, CNY, COP, COU, CRC, CUC, CUP, CVE, CZK, DJF, DKK, DOP, DZD, EGP, ERN, ETB, EUR, FJD, FKP, GBP, GEL, GHS, GIP, GMD, GNF, GTQ, GYD, HKD, HNL, HRK, HTG, HUF, IDR, ILS, INR, IQD, IRR, ISK, JMD, JOD, JPY, KES, KGS, KHR, KMF, KPW, KRW, KWD, KYD, KZT, LAK, LBP, LKR, LRD, LSL, LYD, MAD, MDL, MGA, MKD, MMK, MNT, MOP, MRU, MUR, MVR, MWK, MXN, MXV, MYR, MZN, NAD, NGN, NIO, NOK, NPR, NZD, OMR, PAB, PEN, PGK, PHP, PKR, PLN, PYG, QAR, RON, RSD, RUB, RWF, SAR, SBD, SCR, SDG, SLE, SEK, SGD, SHP, SLL, SOS, SRD, SSP, STN, SVC, SYP, SZL, THB, TJS, TMT, TND, TOP, TRY, TTD, TWD, TZS, UAH, UGX, USD, USN, UYI, UYU, UYW, UZS, VED, VES, VND, VUV, WST, XAF, XAG, XAU, XBA, XBB, XBC, XBD, XCD, XDR, XOF, XPD, XPF, XPT, XSU, XTS, XUA, XXX, YER, ZAR, ZMW, ZWG, ZWL Whether the final captured amount may differ from the requested amount (for example, partial captures or added tips).
How the card was presented for the authorization.
Available options:
chip, contactless, keyed_in, online, swipe The digital wallet used, if any.
Available options:
apple_pay, google_pay, samsung_pay Response
Successful Response
The authorization identifier. Pass this to capture, increment, or reverse the authorization.
The authorization status.
Available options:
pending, closed, expired, reversed The authorization amount, in dollars.
Pattern:
^(?!^[-+.]*$)[+-]?0*\d*\.?\d*$Whether the authorization was approved.
When the authorization was created.
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