Player Item Management - Purchase Item
NOTE: This is a Legacy Economy API, and is in bugfix-only mode. All new Economy features are being developed only for version 2. Buys a single item with virtual currency. You must specify both the virtual currency to use to purchase, as well as what the client believes the price to be. This lets the server fail the purchase if the price has changed.
POST https://titleId.playfabapi.com/Client/PurchaseItem
Request Header
Name | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
X-Authorization | True |
string |
This API requires a client session ticket, available from any Client Login function. |
Request Body
Name | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
ItemId | True |
string |
Unique identifier of the item to purchase. |
Price | True |
number |
Price the client expects to pay for the item (in case a new catalog or store was uploaded, with new prices). |
VirtualCurrency | True |
string |
Virtual currency to use to purchase the item. |
CatalogVersion |
string |
Catalog version for the items to be purchased (defaults to most recent version. |
|
CharacterId |
string |
Unique PlayFab assigned ID for a specific character owned by a user |
|
CustomTags |
object |
The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.). |
|
StoreId |
string |
Store to buy this item through. If not set, prices default to those in the catalog. |
Responses
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
200 OK | ||
400 Bad Request |
This is the outer wrapper for all responses with errors |
Security
X-Authorization
This API requires a client session ticket, available from any Client Login function.
Type:
apiKey
In:
header
Definitions
Name | Description |
---|---|
Api |
The basic wrapper around every failed API response |
Item |
A unique instance of an item in a user's inventory. Note, to retrieve additional information for an item such as Tags, Description that are the same across all instances of the item, a call to GetCatalogItems is required. The ItemID of can be matched to a catalog entry, which contains the additional information. Also note that Custom Data is only set when the User's specific instance has updated the CustomData via a call to UpdateUserInventoryItemCustomData. Other fields such as UnitPrice and UnitCurrency are only set when the item was granted via a purchase. |
Purchase |
Please note that the processing time for inventory grants and purchases increases fractionally the more items are in the inventory, and the more items are in the grant/purchase operation (with each item in a bundle being a distinct add). |
Purchase |
ApiErrorWrapper
The basic wrapper around every failed API response
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
code |
integer |
Numerical HTTP code |
error |
string |
Playfab error code |
errorCode |
integer |
Numerical PlayFab error code |
errorDetails |
object |
Detailed description of individual issues with the request object |
errorMessage |
string |
Description for the PlayFab errorCode |
status |
string |
String HTTP code |
ItemInstance
A unique instance of an item in a user's inventory. Note, to retrieve additional information for an item such as Tags, Description that are the same across all instances of the item, a call to GetCatalogItems is required. The ItemID of can be matched to a catalog entry, which contains the additional information. Also note that Custom Data is only set when the User's specific instance has updated the CustomData via a call to UpdateUserInventoryItemCustomData. Other fields such as UnitPrice and UnitCurrency are only set when the item was granted via a purchase.
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
Annotation |
string |
Game specific comment associated with this instance when it was added to the user inventory. |
BundleContents |
string[] |
Array of unique items that were awarded when this catalog item was purchased. |
BundleParent |
string |
Unique identifier for the parent inventory item, as defined in the catalog, for object which were added from a bundle or container. |
CatalogVersion |
string |
Catalog version for the inventory item, when this instance was created. |
CustomData |
object |
A set of custom key-value pairs on the instance of the inventory item, which is not to be confused with the catalog item's custom data. |
DisplayName |
string |
CatalogItem.DisplayName at the time this item was purchased. |
Expiration |
string |
Timestamp for when this instance will expire. |
ItemClass |
string |
Class name for the inventory item, as defined in the catalog. |
ItemId |
string |
Unique identifier for the inventory item, as defined in the catalog. |
ItemInstanceId |
string |
Unique item identifier for this specific instance of the item. |
PurchaseDate |
string |
Timestamp for when this instance was purchased. |
RemainingUses |
number |
Total number of remaining uses, if this is a consumable item. |
UnitCurrency |
string |
Currency type for the cost of the catalog item. Not available when granting items. |
UnitPrice |
number |
Cost of the catalog item in the given currency. Not available when granting items. |
UsesIncrementedBy |
number |
The number of uses that were added or removed to this item in this call. |
PurchaseItemRequest
Please note that the processing time for inventory grants and purchases increases fractionally the more items are in the inventory, and the more items are in the grant/purchase operation (with each item in a bundle being a distinct add).
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
CatalogVersion |
string |
Catalog version for the items to be purchased (defaults to most recent version. |
CharacterId |
string |
Unique PlayFab assigned ID for a specific character owned by a user |
CustomTags |
object |
The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.). |
ItemId |
string |
Unique identifier of the item to purchase. |
Price |
number |
Price the client expects to pay for the item (in case a new catalog or store was uploaded, with new prices). |
StoreId |
string |
Store to buy this item through. If not set, prices default to those in the catalog. |
VirtualCurrency |
string |
Virtual currency to use to purchase the item. |
PurchaseItemResult
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
Items |
Details for the items purchased. |
Error Codes
Name | Code |
---|---|
CharacterNotFound | 1135 |
InsufficientFunds | 1059 |
InvalidVirtualCurrency | 1051 |
ItemNotFound | 1047 |
OperationNotSupportedForPlatform | 1219 |
StoreNotFound | 1221 |
WrongPrice | 1053 |
WrongVirtualCurrency | 1052 |