Issue a gift card by hand

POST /gift-cards

Issue a gift card by hand — a prize, a goodwill gesture — worth amountCents in currency, for an optional recipientId (a person or a company).

It expires at the end of expiresOn, else after the organization's giftCardExpiryMonths, else never. Answers the card and its code — the one answer that ever carries it: no read shows it again, only its last four. The books post it as store credit given against gift card liability. Appends fulfillment.gift-card-issued. giftCardId (a caller-minted gcd_…) is required and is the idempotency key: the code is derived from it, so a retry with the same id answers the same card and the same code and issues nothing.

Access

Requires payments:write.

How scopes come from roles: Scopes and roles. Getting a token: Authentication and app tokens.

Retries

giftCardId (a caller-minted gcd_…) is required and is the idempotency key: the code is derived from it, so a retry with the same id answers the same card and the same code and issues nothing.

A retry with the same key answers 201, with what the first call recorded.

Why every write carries a key: Idempotency and retries.

Facts appended

fulfillment.gift-card-issued

What a fact is: Facts and the journal.

AI agent tool

No agent tool. issuing a gift card answers its code once — a bearer secret that belongs on the card or in the recipient's mail, never in a chat transcript; it is issued in the admin

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

curl

curl -X POST 'https://fulfillment.getmanifold.io/gift-cards' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "giftCardId": "gcd_01a15912-6e02-7b3c-9d4e-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
  "amountCents": 5000,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "expiresOn": "2029-10-21",
  "recipientId": "psn_01a1588a-0c41-7d2e-9a10-3b5c6d7e8f90",
  "note": "Birthday raffle prize"
}'

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://fulfillment.getmanifold.io/gift-cards", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MANIFOLD_TOKEN}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "giftCardId": "gcd_01a15912-6e02-7b3c-9d4e-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
    "amountCents": 5000,
    "currency": "AUD",
    "expiresOn": "2029-10-21",
    "recipientId": "psn_01a1588a-0c41-7d2e-9a10-3b5c6d7e8f90",
    "note": "Birthday raffle prize"
  }),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const answer = await response.json();

Request body · application/json

{
  "giftCardId": "gcd_01a15912-6e02-7b3c-9d4e-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
  "amountCents": 5000,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "expiresOn": "2029-10-21",
  "recipientId": "psn_01a1588a-0c41-7d2e-9a10-3b5c6d7e8f90",
  "note": "Birthday raffle prize"
}

Response · 201 · application/json

{
  "card": {
    "id": "gcd_01a15912-6e02-7b3c-9d4e-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
    "last4": "K7QM",
    "currency": "AUD",
    "initialCents": 5000,
    "balanceCents": 5000,
    "status": "active",
    "expiresOn": "2029-10-21",
    "recipientId": "psn_01a1588a-0c41-7d2e-9a10-3b5c6d7e8f90",
    "note": "Birthday raffle prize",
    "issuedAt": "2026-10-21T03:02:11.000Z",
    "entries": [
      {
        "kind": "issued",
        "amountCents": 5000,
        "at": "2026-10-21T03:02:11.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "code": "7H2D-9QXR-W4NB-K7QM"
}

The panel writes this call in other languages. It does not send it: Manifold's APIs do not take calls from a web page on another site, so run the call from your own code or terminal. The whole API as OpenAPI: fulfillment-manager.openapi.json. Base URL https://fulfillment.getmanifold.io.

Errors

Every refusal is a status and a JSON body whose _tag names it. A refused call changes nothing.

`401`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`Unauthorized` reason	The token is missing, expired or not one Manifold issued.	Get a fresh token and send the call again.
`TokenAlreadyUsed` tokenId	A single-use app token was already spent.	Mint a new token for this call.

`402`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`SubscriptionRequired` status	The organization's subscription has lapsed, so writes are refused.	An owner settles billing. Reads still work meanwhile.

`403`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`TenantRequired` userId	The token names no organization.	Choose the organization, then get a new token.
`ScopeRequired` required	The token's roles do not grant the scope this call needs.	Ask an owner or admin for a role that grants it.

`409`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`MirroredFromSource` source	This area is fed by your source system until the organization goes live.	Make the change in the source system, or go live first.

`502`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`InventoryUnavailable` reason	The inventory service did not answer, so nothing changed.	Send the same request again, with the same key.

`503`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`RequestLogUnavailable` tokenId, reason	The service could not record the request, so it did nothing.	Send the same request again, with the same key.

How refusals work everywhere: Errors.

Used in

Store credit and gift cards, step 4: Issue a gift card