Card issuing

Activate a card

4min

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to:

✅ Activate a debit card using the card ID

If you are new to card issuing we recommend you read the card issuing management documentation before starting this tutorial.

The tutorial assumes you have a knowledge of APIs and how they work. For more information on sending API calls, see the API overview page.

The tutorial uses these API endpoints:

API

Description

Activates the card using the card ID

The tutorial uses these webhooks:

Webhook

Description

Cards.Card.Activated

Debit card activated

Before you begin

Make sure you have:

Register the relevant webhook events

To receive the webhook events for this tutorial both partner accounts need to register each specific webhook event type. Once you are registered, the event objects are sent to the registered URLs.

The event object contains a list of resource identifiers used to download details on each event.

Activate the card

Activate the card you created in the order a card tutorial.

1

Call POST /cardmanagement/v1/cards/{id}/activate. The id attribute must be set to the card ID. In the sample below the ID is 8709163d-140c-4d95-a111-afa8009e9cd1. A full list of attributes is found here .

Sample activate card request

2

A successful API call returns a JSON response with the details of the card. The card status is now activated. The OrderStatus is Completed.

Sample activate card response

3

When the card status changes to Active, the Cards.Card.Activated webhook event fires.

Cards.Card.Activated webhook event




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