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Negative Balance Limit

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The negative balance limit is a threshold for the creditor balance beyond which refunds are not permitted. The default limit is zero — refunds are not permitted if the creditor has a negative balance. The limit can be changed on a per-creditor basis.

List negative balance limits#

GET/negative_balance_limits

Returns a cursor-paginated list of negative balance limits.

Query Parameters

NameTypeDescription
beforestring

Cursor pointing to the end of the desired set.

afterstring

Cursor pointing to the start of the desired set.

limitstring

Number of records to return.

currencystring
creditorstring
GET https://api.gocardless.com/negative_balance_limits?currency=GBP&creditor=CR123 HTTP/1.1
@client.negative_balance_limits.list(
  params: {
    currency: "GBP",
    creditor: "CR123",
  }
).records
client.negative_balance_limits.list(params={
  "currency": "GBP",
  "creditor": "CR123",
}).records
await client.negativeBalanceLimits.list({
  currency: "GBP",
  creditor: "CR123",
});
$client->negativeBalanceLimits()->list([
  "params" => [
    "currency" => "GBP",
    "creditor" => "CR123",
  ]
]);
import com.gocardless.services.NegativeBalanceLimitService.NegativeBalanceLimitListRequest.Currency;

client.negativeBalanceLimits().
  all().
  withCreditor("CR123").
  withCurrency(Currency.GBP).
  execute();
params := gocardless.NegativeBalanceLimitListParams{
  Currency: "GBP",
  Creditor: "CR123",
}

response, err := client.NegativeBalanceLimits.List(ctx, params)
var request = new GoCardless.Services.NegativeBalanceLimitListRequest()
{
  Currency = GoCardless.Services.NegativeBalanceLimitListRequest.NegativeBalanceLimitCurrency.GBP,
  Creditor = "CR123",
};

client.NegativeBalanceLimits.All(request);
Responsehttp
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "negative_balance_limits": [
    {
      "id": "NBL123",
      "created_at": "2014-05-08T17:01:06.000Z",
      "balance_limit": "10000",
      "currency": "GBP",
      "links": {
        "creditor": "CR123"
      }
    }
  ]
}
Response 200

Successful response

negative_balance_limitsarray
5 properties
idstring

Unique identifier, beginning with "NBL".

created_atstring

Fixed timestamp, recording when this limit was created.

balance_limitstring / integer

The limit amount in pence (e.g. 10000 for a -100 GBP limit).

currencystring

ISO 4217 currency code. Currently "AUD", "CAD", "DKK", "EUR", "GBP", "NZD", "SEK" and "USD" are supported.

AUDCADDKKEURGBPNZDSEKUSD
linksobject
2 properties
creator_userstring

ID of the creator_user who created this limit

creditorstring

ID of creditor which this limit relates to

metaobject
2 properties
limitinteger
cursorsobject
2 properties
beforestring

Cursor pointing to the end of the desired set.

afterstring

Cursor pointing to the start of the desired set.

Errors 400401404422500
400

Bad Request

401

Unauthorised

404

Not found

422

Validation Error

500

Internal Error

Error Body
errorobject

Generic error

6 properties
codeinteger
documentation_urlstring
errorsarray
6 properties
reasonstring
fieldstring
request_pointerstring
messagestring
metadataobject
linksobject
messagestring
request_idstring
typestring
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