[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":53},["ShallowReactive",2],{"guide-en-card-issuing-api-checklist":3},{"id":4,"topic":5,"lang":6,"slug":5,"title":7,"description":8,"targetQuery":9,"intent":10,"path":11,"source":12,"related":13,"approved":17,"author":18,"reviewedBy":21,"datePublished":21,"dateModified":22,"factsChecked":22,"heading":23,"bodyHtml":24,"wordCount":25,"url":26,"toc":27,"readingMinutes":46,"alternates":47},"en:card-issuing-api-checklist","card-issuing-api-checklist","en","Card issuing API integration checklist","Plan a card issuing API integration with safe retries, webhook verification, reconciliation and clear acceptance criteria for business owners.","card issuing API integration checklist","informational","\u002Fguides\u002Fcard-issuing-api-checklist\u002F","en\u002Fcard-issuing-api-checklist.md",[14,15,16],"en:stablecoin-funded-virtual-cards","en:choose-virtual-card-provider","en:virtual-card-total-cost",true,{"type":19,"name":20},"Organization","AIHUB Cards",null,"2026-09-23","Card issuing API: a practical checklist before integration","\u003Cp>Before integrating a card issuing API, define the business operations you need and the evidence that will prove they work. An endpoint that creates a card is only one part of the system. Your team also needs reliable balances, controlled access, transaction reconciliation and a way to handle failures without duplicating financial operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a design checklist, not AIHUB API documentation. AIHUB's public documentation describes its REST API as a private beta and labels endpoints as a preview. Confirm current access and supported operations before planning delivery around them. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Faihub.cards\u002Fdocs\">AIHUB documentation\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"section-1\">Start with a small operational contract\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Write down who can issue, view, freeze and manage cards. Identify which operations require approval and what happens when a user leaves the organization. Decide how your internal customer or team identifiers map to provider records without exposing card credentials in ordinary logs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ask for the authentication method, permission scopes, test environment, rate limits, versioning policy and error model. Separate “documented,” “available in our environment” and “tested by our team.” These are three different milestones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"section-2\">Make retries safe\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Network timeouts create ambiguity: a request may have succeeded even if your application did not receive the response. Repeating an operation blindly can create duplicates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ask whether the provider supports idempotency keys, which operations they cover and how long they remain effective. Keep the same operation identifier when retrying the same intended action; do not assume another provider's semantics apply. Stripe documents idempotent requests as one example of this pattern. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.stripe.com\u002Fapi\u002Fidempotent_requests\">Idempotent request reference\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Acceptance test: simulate a timeout around a creation request and confirm that the eventual state contains exactly one intended object, or that your documented recovery process resolves ambiguity before another attempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"section-3\">Treat webhooks as events to verify and reconcile\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Request the provider's rules for signature verification, replay protection, retries, ordering and event identifiers. Design processing so a duplicate event does not repeat a business action. Do not assume events always arrive in chronological order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stripe's webhook guidance discusses signature checks, duplicate deliveries and ordering. These are useful questions to bring to any provider, not proof of AIHUB's behavior. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.stripe.com\u002Fwebhooks\">Webhook guidance\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Acceptance test: deliver the same event twice and an older event after a newer one. Your system should retain a correct state and a traceable processing record. Also test how it recovers after being unavailable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"section-4\">Define the financial source of truth\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Distinguish available funds, authorizations, settled purchases, reversals, refunds and fees according to the provider's actual model. Reconcile your records against its transaction export or authoritative API. Do not infer that a card is funded solely because your application's “top-up requested” action succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keep sensitive payment data out of analytics and general application logs. Prefer provider-hosted handling of card details where available, and have the responsible security specialist determine the integration's obligations before storing or processing credentials yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"section-5\">Explain readiness to an owner in plain language\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>A useful status update might be: “Card creation works in the test environment. Repeated requests do not create duplicates. Freeze and access removal are tested. We have not yet confirmed recovery after missed notifications, so production rollout is pending.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This communicates what works, what remains unproven and why it matters without pasting implementation files into a report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"section-6\">Agree the launch boundary\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Before production, document operational ownership, monitoring, incident contacts, spending exposure, rollback behavior and how to disable new operations safely. Launch only the confirmed scope. Future SDKs, bulk operations or roadmap promises should not become dependencies until they are available and tested for your account.\u003C\u002Fp>",595,"https:\u002F\u002Faihub.cards\u002Fguides\u002Fcard-issuing-api-checklist\u002F",[28,31,34,37,40,43],{"id":29,"title":30},"section-1","Start with a small operational contract",{"id":32,"title":33},"section-2","Make retries safe",{"id":35,"title":36},"section-3","Treat webhooks as events to verify and reconcile",{"id":38,"title":39},"section-4","Define the financial source of truth",{"id":41,"title":42},"section-5","Explain readiness to an owner in plain language",{"id":44,"title":45},"section-6","Agree the launch boundary",3,[48,49],{"lang":6,"url":26,"path":11},{"lang":50,"url":51,"path":52},"ru","https:\u002F\u002Faihub.cards\u002Fru\u002Fguides\u002Fcard-issuing-api-checklist\u002F","\u002Fru\u002Fguides\u002Fcard-issuing-api-checklist\u002F",1790169255202]