Reads one merchant's custom field definitions.
GET
/api/merchants/{id}/custom-fields
deprecated
No permission required.
The narrow counterpart to `GET /api/merchants/{id}` for a caller that wants only the definitions. That route answers with the whole merchant, decrypting processor and screening provider secrets on the way, so using it to read a handful of field names pulls material the caller never asked for across the wire and pays a per-profile decryption for it. Takes the merchant as a parameter rather than resolving it from the caller, unlike `self/custom-fields`: definition numbering is per merchant, so a caller acting for several of them has to be able to name the one it means. The caller must have access to the merchant it names: a merchant outside the caller's scope is reported as not found.
Signed in, you can send this request to your own sandbox merchant from the console and read the answer. Sign in to try it.
Example request
Every block below sends the same request. Replace {{BASE_URL}} with the address of the API you are calling and {{API_KEY}} with your own key.
The request body is a . See the Request body section below for its fields.
Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
id
required |
path | string (uuid) | The merchant whose definitions to read. |
suppressNulls
required |
query | boolean | If true, omit properties with null values. |
Request body
application/json
, required
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|
This request body has no documented fields.
Responses
200 OK
Body: array of CustomField
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id
required |
string (uuid) | |
name
required |
string | nullablemin length 3max length 50pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9]+(?:_[A-Za-z0-9]+)*$ |
notes
required |
array of EntityNote | nullable |
tags
required |
array of EntityTag | nullable |
isNumeric
required |
boolean | Conditional: When IsMultiValue is true. |
decimalPlaces
required |
integer (int32) | Conditional: When IsNumeric is true. Range: 0 to 2. |
maxLength
required |
integer (int32) | Conditional: When IsNumeric is false. Range: 0 to 300. |
regEx
required |
string | Conditional: When RegEx is not empty. nullable |
regExErrorMessage
required |
string | Conditional: When RegExErrorMessage is not empty. Max length: 100. nullablemax length 100 |
isRequired
required |
boolean | |
isEnabled
required |
boolean | |
description
required |
string | Conditional: When Description is not empty. Max length: 100. nullable |
numericMinValue
required |
number (double) | For numeric fields, the minimum value allowed. Negative minimums are permitted: a custom field is merchant-defined metadata rather than a monetary amount, so ranges that span or sit below zero (adjustments, offsets, deltas, temperatures) are legitimate. The value is inert unless `isNumeric` is set, and is validated only in that case. Conditional: When IsNumeric is true. Range: -1000000000 to 1000000000. |
numericMaxValue
required |
number (double) | For numeric fields, the maximum value allowed. It must be greater than or equal to `numericMinValue` but is not required to be positive, since a field whose whole range is negative is valid. The value is inert unless `isNumeric` is set, and is validated only in that case. Conditional: When IsNumeric is true. Range: -1000000000 to 1000000000. |
position
required |
integer (int32) | min 0 |
virtualTerminal
required |
all of CustomFieldPresence | Presence settings for the Virtual Terminal, which collects this field from the operator when `visible` is set. |
hostedPaymentPage
required |
CustomFieldPresence | |
transactionReports
required |
all of CustomFieldTransactionReportsPresence | Presence settings for the surfaces that list a transaction's captured custom fields: the transaction detail page and the receipt. Only `visible` is honoured. |
showOnSaveCardSessions
required |
boolean | Whether this field is offered on a save-card hosted payment page session (one that stores the card without charging it). Defaults to off: most custom fields carry charge metadata (invoice number, purchase order, department) that is meaningless on a page whose only outcome is a stored card, so a field is suppressed on those sessions unless the merchant opts it in. nullable |
legacyNumber
required |
integer (int64) | The integer key the v1 API addresses this definition by. Server-owned: allocated once, when the definition is first saved, and never reassigned afterwards. nullable |
isMultiValue
required |
boolean | Whether a transaction carries a list of values for this field rather than a single value. A multi-value field is submitted through `TrxCustomField.Values`, prefilled on a hosted page session through `prefilledListFields`, and captured one value per line on the Virtual Terminal. The single `value` member keeps working on a multi-value definition: it is carried unchanged and mirrored into the list as its one item. nullable |
maxValues
required |
integer (int32) | For a multi-value field, the largest number of values a transaction may carry. Unset reads as `DefaultMaxValues`; the platform ceiling is `MaxValuesCeiling`. Inert unless `isMultiValue` is set, and validated only in that case. Conditional: When IsMultiValue is true and MaxValues is not null. Range: 1 to 250. nullable |
This response has no documented body fields.
403 Forbidden
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
401 Unauthorized
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
400 Bad Request
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
404 Not Found
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
501 Not Implemented
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
500 Internal Server Error
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
default The request failed. The body carries the standard error envelope: a machine-readable `error.code`, a human-readable `error.message`, and `error.validationErrors` when the failure was a validation rejection. See the error-code reference in this document's description for the values `error.code` can take.
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
429 The request was refused because a rate limit was exceeded, or because something a later retry can clear stopped it. A rate limit refusal carries an `application/problem+json` body: wait at least the interval `Retry-After` names before retrying, then back off. Limits are tuned per deployment, so read the allowance from the response headers rather than assuming a fixed ceiling. Any other refusal carries the standard error envelope as `application/json`, and its `error.code` names the cause.
Body: RemoteServiceErrorResponse
Each item has these fields.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
error
required |
RemoteServiceErrorInfo |
This response has no documented body fields.
Errors
A failed request returns the platform error envelope. The
error reference lists every value
error.code can carry and shows the four response shapes.