---
title: "Create a recipient"
method: POST
path: "/v2/recipients"
---

# Create a recipient

`POST /v2/recipients`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.slash.com`
- URL: `https://api.slash.com/v2/recipients`
- Auth: API key in header `X-API-Key`

Create a person or business to pay. Add destinations to it to send them money.

## Headers

- `X-Idempotency-Key` string, required

## Request body

- RecipientCreate: The person or business you will pay.
  - `name` string, required: Display name visible to your organization.
  - `recipientType` 'contact' | 'vendor', required: `contact` for a person (shown as "Person" in the Slash dashboard), `vendor` for a business.
  - `recipientLegalName` string, required
  - `recipientEmail` string, email
  - `address` Address
    - `line1` string, required
    - `line2` string
    - `city` string, required
    - `state` string
    - `postalCode` string
    - `countryCode` string: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.

## Response `200`

The created recipient.

- Recipient: A person or business you pay, and the owner of the destinations you pay them at.
  - `id` string, required: Recipient id.
  - `name` string, required: Display name visible to your organization.
  - `recipientType` 'contact' | 'vendor', required: `contact` is a person (shown as "Person" in the Slash dashboard); `vendor` is a business.
  - `recipientLegalName` string, required
  - `recipientEmail` string
  - `address` Address
    - `line1` string, required
    - `line2` string
    - `city` string, required
    - `state` string
    - `postalCode` string
    - `countryCode` string: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
  - `status` 'active' | 'archived', required
  - `createdAt` string, date-time, required
  - `archivedAt` string, date-time

## Other responses

- `400`: - `invalid_request (request shape)` — The body, query, or headers failed validation, or a required header is missing. `details` has one entry per failing location, keyed by JSON pointer or header name.
- `401`: - `unauthorized` — API key authentication is missing or invalid.
- `403`: - `forbidden` — The credential is not permitted to perform this action on the resource. When the resource is a field of the request, `details` names that `field` and the `id` it received. - `forbidden (legal entity)` — The credential is not permitted to act for the selected legal entity. - `not_available` — Public API v2 is not yet available. Use [Public API v1](https://docs.slash.com/introduction) in the meantime. - `user_api_key_required` — The API key is scoped to a legal entity rather than a user. Every v2 request needs a user API key, created under Settings → API keys in the Slash dashboard, together with the `x-legal-entity` header.
- `404`: - `not_found` — No resource matches the identifier. When the identifier is a field of the request, `details` names that `field` and the `id` it received.
- `409`: - `conflict (idempotency key reused)` — A consumed `X-Idempotency-Key` was reused; the original response is not replayed.
- `429`: The request exceeded the applicable rate limit. The response body is plain text, not the error object; clients must not depend on its wording.
- `500`: - `internal` — Slash could not complete the request. Quote `referenceId` when contacting Slash support.

## Changes

- **2026-10-16** `8b5d371ffeea`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/slashfi/apis/slash-public-api/changes/v2/recipients/post.md)

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