Player Item Management - Purchase Item

Service:

Client

API Version:

241122

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	PurchaseItemResult
400 Bad Request	ApiErrorWrapper	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
ApiErrorWrapper	The basic wrapper around every failed API response
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.
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).
PurchaseItemResult

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	ItemInstance[]	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