# Cards Issuance

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> {{base\_url}}/business/vcard-issuance

#### Headers

| Name                                            | Type   | Description |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------ | ----------- |
| Authorization<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | SECRET\_KEY |

#### Request Body

| Name                                         | Type   | Description                                                  |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| cardbrand<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>  | Sting  | Card brand you want to issued e.g Mastercard, Visa           |
| currency<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>   | String | USD for USD Virtual Card or NGN for NGN Virtual card         |
| amount<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>     |        | Amount to pre-fund the card with after issuing               |
| trackingid<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | Customer tracking ID returned from the card account endpoint |

{% hint style="danger" %}
Your secret keys are to be kept secret and only stored on your servers. Do not pass your secret key to the front-end language where it can be exploited.
{% endhint %}

Take a look at how you might do this:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```php
curl --location '{{base_url}}/business/vcard-issuance' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer SECRET_KEY' \
--data '{
    "currency": "USD",
    "trackingid": "9239293",
    "cardbrand": "Mastercard",
    "amount": 5
}'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJs" %}

```javascript
const axios = require('axios');
let data = JSON.stringify({
  "currency": "USD",
  "trackingid": "9239293",
  "cardbrand": "Mastercard",
  "amount": 5
});

let config = {
  method: 'post',
  maxBodyLength: Infinity,
  url: '{{base_url}}/business/vcard-issuance'
  headers: { 
    'Content-Type': 'application/json', 
    'Authorization': 'Bearer SECRET_KEY'
  },
  data : data
};

axios.request(config)
.then((response) => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP - cURL" %}

```php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => '{{base_url}}/business/vcard-issuance',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
    "currency": "USD",
    "trackingid": "9239293",
    "cardbrand": "Mastercard",
    "amount": 5
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Authorization: Bearer SECRET_KEY'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Dart" %}

```dart
var headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer SECRET_KEY'
};
var request = http.Request('POST', Uri.parse('{{base_url}}/business/vcard-issuance'));
request.body = json.encode({
  "currency": "USD",
  "trackingid": "9239293",
  "cardbrand": "Mastercard",
  "amount": 5
});
request.headers.addAll(headers);

http.StreamedResponse response = await request.send();

if (response.statusCode == 200) {
  print(await response.stream.bytesToString());
}
else {
  print(response.reasonPhrase);
}

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## Sample response

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Successful" %}

```json
{
    "status": true,
    "responsecode": "01",
    "message": "Card Issuance Processing",
    "txref": "0621121102020",
    "charged": 6,
    "currency": "USD"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Failed" %}

```
{
    "status": false
    "responsecode": "00",
    "message": "Insufficient wallet balance for this transaction",
    "txref": "",
    "charged": ""
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% hint style="info" %}
When the card is successfully processed, we will notify you via webhook notification with the card details and card ID. Event\_type as transactions and Paid\_through as virtualcard
{% endhint %}


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