Marqeta Users API
// Conditional snippet for beta or internal contentinclude::../../maturity-admonition-banner.adoc[]// This source file is used by InfoDev to generate API reference documentation.// File location in GitHub is:// https://github.marqeta.com/openapi/coreapi/blob/main/openapi/users/openapi.yamlThe `users` resource represents a person who accesses Marqeta-administered funds via a Marqeta card (whether physical or virtual).This endpoint enables you to create and manage users on the Marqeta platform.This resource stores user attributes such as name, address, and date of birth, as well as financial information such as balances.By default, every user automatically has a general purpose account (GPA) that is used for the funding of transfers and is therefore an `account holder`.Note that account balances reside at the account holder level — there are no separate `account` or `balance` objects.You can use the `/users` endpoint to create parent-child relationships between two users (where one user is the parent and the other is the child) or between a business and a user (where the business is the parent and the user is the child).This relationship provides reporting to the parent about how cards of children are used and enables the parent to monitor and even restrict card usage.[NOTE]A user can simultaneously be a child of a business and a parent of other users if the user is not configured to use a parent's account balances and the user's child is configured to use a parent's account balances.For more information on account holders, see >.
Marqeta Users API is one of 81 APIs that Marqeta publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include User. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 23 operations across 20 paths, and defines 27 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 3.0.39.
Requests are made against a single base URL, /v3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Marqeta Users API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (mqAppAndAccessToken).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 23
Across 20 paths, the API surfaces 23 operations — 9 GET, 12 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
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Schemas 27
The contract defines 27 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are user_card_holder_response (40 properties), card_holder_model (34 properties), UserCardHolderUpdateModel (33 properties), access_token_response (8 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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