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Simulate a card balance inquiry

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Simulate a balance-inquiry authorization against a card in the sandbox environment. A balance inquiry is always a 0-amount authorization, so the request carries no amount — only the merchant. Drives the same internal paths the card issuer would call in production. The resulting card operation is delivered asynchronously via the issuer's events webhook.

Production returns 404 on this path.

post/sandbox/cards/{id}/simulate/balance_inquiry

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.lightspark.com/grid/2025-10-13
  • URL
    https://api.lightspark.com/grid/2025-10-13/sandbox/cards/{id}/simulate/balance_inquiry
  • Auth
    HTTP basic

Path parameters

idstring required

The id of the card to simulate a balance inquiry against.

Request body

Example request

{
  "merchant": {
    "descriptor": "BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE SF",
    "mcc": "5814",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "state": "CA",
    "country": "US"
  }
}

Response

Simulation accepted. The resulting card operation is delivered asynchronously via the issuer's events webhook. Returns the issuer transaction token that correlates the simulated event.

issuerTransactionTokenstring required

The card issuer's transaction token for the simulated event. Correlates the eventual webhook-delivered card operation back to this simulate call.

Example response

{
  "issuerTransactionToken": "f3a1c2d4-5b6e-7890-abcd-ef0123456789"
}

Changes

  • d996ddfb9d2bRevision changes
    • info

      added the optional property / to the response with the status

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      added the optional property / to the response with the status

    • info

      added the optional property / to the response with the status

    • info

      added the optional property / to the response with the status

    • info

      added the optional property / to the response with the status

  • 5abf2bb56bcbRevision changes
    • warning

      added the new CORRIDOR_UNDER_MAINTENANCE enum value to the response property for the response status