POST
/
session
/
create
curl --request POST \
  --url https://development.knotapi.com/session/create \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "type": "card_switcher",
  "external_user_id": "123abc",
  "card_id": "81n9al10a0ayn13",
  "phone_number": "+11234567890",
  "email": "ada.lovelace@gmail.com",
  "card": {
    "blocked": false,
    "has_funds": true
  },
  "processor_token": "processor-production-0asd1-a92nc"
}'
{
  "session": "915efe72-5136-4652-z91q-d9d48003c102"
}

Sessions last 30 minutes. It is best practice to create a new session each time you initialize the SDK and not log the session in any internal or 3rd party tooling.

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Basic authentication header of the form Basic <encoded-value>, where <encoded-value> is the base64-encoded string username:password. Use your client_id as the username and your secret as the password value.

Body

application/json

The input parameters required for creating a session.

The body is of type object.

Response

200
application/json

Successful request.

The response is of type object.