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Marqeta Velocity Controls API

// Conditional snippet for beta or internal contentinclude::../../maturity-admonition-banner.adoc[]A velocity control limits how much users can spend.You can configure velocity controls to limit how much users can spend and the number of transactions they can make in a given span of time.You can apply velocity controls to a single user, to all users associated with a particular card product, or to all users in your program.Only Program Managers can create or modify program-wide velocity controls.A `POST` or `PUT` call from a role that does not have Program Manager permissions will receive a 403 error if its `association` field is null, or if it includes all of the fields in the request body.Avoid this by passing a valid `user_token` or `card_product_token` in the velocity control's `association` object, indicating that the request is specific to a user or card product, and not program-wide.You should also only include the specific fields you want to update, because a `PUT` or `POST` with values for all fields is interpreted as a change that requires Program Manager permissions.See > for a tutorial that walks you through the creation of a spend control.[NOTE]Each program supports a maximum of 90 spend controls (velocity controls and > combined).The limit of 90 spend controls applies at the program level only; it does not affect the number of user-level spend controls you can use.

Marqeta Velocity Controls API is one of 81 APIs that Marqeta publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Velocity Controls. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 7 operations across 4 paths, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 3.0.39.

Requests are made against a single base URL, /v3.

7 operations 4 paths 10 schemas 1 DELETE4 GET1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
3.0.39
Base URL
https://sandbox-api.marqeta.com/v3
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Contact
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Marqeta Velocity Controls API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (mqAppAndAccessToken). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 7

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 7 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Velocity Controls 7

// Conditional snippet for beta or internal content include::../../maturity-admonition-banner.adoc[] A velocity control limits how much users can spend. You can configure velocity…

GET
/velocitycontrols
List velocity controls
getVelocitycontrols 6 params → 200400500
POST
/velocitycontrols
Create velocity control
postVelocitycontrols body → 201400409500
GET
/velocitycontrols/user/{user_token}/available
List user velocity control balances
getVelocitycontrolsUserUsertokenAvailable 5 params → 200400500
GET
/velocitycontrols/{token}
Returns a specific velocity control
getVelocitycontrolsToken 2 params → 200400404500
PUT
/velocitycontrols/{token}
Update velocity control
putVelocitycontrolsToken 1 param body → 200400500
DELETE
/velocitycontrols/{token}
Sets a specific velocity control to inactive to soft delete it
deleteVelocitycontrolsToken 1 param → 200404500
GET
/velocitycontrols/account/{account_token}/available
Retrieve velocity control available balances for an account token
getVelocitycontrolsAccountAccountTokenAvailable 1 param → 200400500

Schemas 10

The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are velocity_control_balance_response (17 properties), velocity_control_update_request (16 properties), velocity_control_response (16 properties), velocity_control_request (16 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

VelocityControlListResponse
object
5 properties
spend_control_association
object
Defines the group of users to which the velocity control applies.
3 properties
money_in_transaction
object
Defines the original credit transaction (OCT) types that are subject to velocity control. Your request can contain either a moneyintransaction object or the in…
2 properties
velocity_control_balance_response
object
17 properties 4 required
VelocityControlBalanceListResponse
object
5 properties
available
object
Specifies the available balances of the velocity controls associated with a user. This object is not returned if the velocity control window is TRANSACTION, be…
3 properties 2 required
merchant_scope
object
Defines the group of merchants to which the velocity control applies. Populate no more than one field of the merchantscope object. If no fields are populated,…
3 properties
velocity_control_request
object
16 properties 3 required
velocity_control_response
object
16 properties 3 required
velocity_control_update_request
object
16 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

marqeta-velocity-controls-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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