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GOV.UK Pay Authorise card payments API

The Authorise card payments API from GOV.UK Pay — 1 operation(s) for authorise card payments.

GOV.UK Pay Authorise card payments API is one of 5 APIs that GOV.UK Pay publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Authorise card payments. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, and a GitHub repository.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 1.0.3.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://publicapi.payments.service.gov.uk.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
1.0.3
Base URL
https://publicapi.payments.service.gov.uk/
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

GOV.UK Pay Authorise card payments API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (BearerAuth).

  • BearerAuth — GOV.UK Pay authenticates API calls with [OAuth2 HTTP bearer tokens](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750). You need to use an "Authorization" HTTP header to prov…

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Authorise card payments 1
POST
/v1/auth
Send card details to authorise a MOTO payment
Authorise a MOTO payment body → 204400402422500

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AuthorisationRequest (5 properties), RequestError (4 properties), ErrorResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

RequestError
object
A Request Error response
4 properties
ErrorResponse
object
An error response
2 properties
AuthorisationRequest
object
Contains the user's payment information. This information will be sent to the payment service provider to authorise the payment.
5 properties 5 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

gov-uk-pay-authorise-card-payments-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs GOV.UK Pay publishes across the network.

GOV.UK Pay Agreements API
GOV.UK Pay Card payments API
GOV.UK Pay Disputes API
GOV.UK Pay Refunding card payments API
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