---
title: "Create a User Handoff Notification Rule"
method: POST
path: "/users/{id}/oncall_handoff_notification_rules"
tags: ["Users"]
---

# Create a User Handoff Notification Rule

`POST /users/{id}/oncall_handoff_notification_rules`

Create a new Handoff Notification Rule.
Users are members of a PagerDuty account that have the ability to interact with Incidents and other data on the account.
For more information see the [API Concepts Document](../../api-reference/a47605517c19a-api-concepts#users)

Scoped OAuth requires: `users.write`

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Headers

- `Accept` string, required
- `Content-Type` 'application/json', required

## Request body

- object
  - `oncall_handoff_notification_rule` HandoffNotificationRule, required — unresolved $ref

## Response `201`

The Handoff Notification Rule that was created.

- object
  - `oncall_handoff_notification_rule` HandoffNotificationRule, required — unresolved $ref

## Other responses

- `400` — Caller provided invalid arguments. Please review the response for error details. Retrying with the same arguments will *not* work.
- `401` — Caller did not supply credentials or did not provide the correct credentials. If you are using an API key, it may be invalid or your Authorization header may be malformed.
- `402` — Account does not have the abilities to perform the action. Please review the response for the required abilities. You can also use the [Abilities API](#resource_Abilities) to determine what features are available to your account.
- `403` — Caller is not authorized to view the requested resource. While your authentication is valid, the authenticated user or token does not have permission to perform this action.
- `429` — Too many requests have been made, the rate limit has been reached.

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