curl --request POST \
--url https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: <idempotency-key>'import requests
url = "https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block"
headers = {
"Idempotency-Key": "<idempotency-key>",
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Idempotency-Key': '<idempotency-key>', Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}
};
fetch('https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Idempotency-Key: <idempotency-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Idempotency-Key", "<idempotency-key>")
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block")
.header("Idempotency-Key", "<idempotency-key>")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Idempotency-Key"] = '<idempotency-key>'
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"type": "counterparty",
"name": "<string>",
"entity_type": "business",
"physical_address": {
"line_1": "<string>",
"line_2": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"country_code": "DE"
},
"financial_address": {
"type": "iban",
"iban": "DE89370400440532013000",
"account_holder_name": "Acme Sandbox Ltd.",
"bic": "COBADEFFXXX"
},
"date_of_birth": "2023-12-25",
"is_self_owned": true,
"blocked": true,
"metadata": {
"invoice_id": "INV-2026-0042"
}
}Block counterparty
Blocks payments to and from a counterparty owned by the merchant. Blocking an already-blocked counterparty succeeds without changing the existing block.
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: <idempotency-key>'import requests
url = "https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block"
headers = {
"Idempotency-Key": "<idempotency-key>",
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Idempotency-Key': '<idempotency-key>', Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}
};
fetch('https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Idempotency-Key: <idempotency-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Idempotency-Key", "<idempotency-key>")
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block")
.header("Idempotency-Key", "<idempotency-key>")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.augustus.com/v1/counterparties/{id}/block")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Idempotency-Key"] = '<idempotency-key>'
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"type": "counterparty",
"name": "<string>",
"entity_type": "business",
"physical_address": {
"line_1": "<string>",
"line_2": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"postal_code": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"country_code": "DE"
},
"financial_address": {
"type": "iban",
"iban": "DE89370400440532013000",
"account_holder_name": "Acme Sandbox Ltd.",
"bic": "COBADEFFXXX"
},
"date_of_birth": "2023-12-25",
"is_self_owned": true,
"blocked": true,
"metadata": {
"invoice_id": "INV-2026-0042"
}
}Authorizations
Bearer token for authentication with Augustus Banking API
Headers
Idempotency key for safe retries. Reusing a key with an identical request body returns the cached response. Reusing a key with a different body returns 409.
Path Parameters
Unique identifier of the counterparty.
Response
The blocked counterparty
Unique identifier of the counterparty.
Resource type discriminator.
counterparty Name of the counterparty, or null if not recorded.
Whether the counterparty is a business or an individual.
business, individual Physical address of the counterparty, or null if not recorded.
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Financial address of the counterparty.
- IBAN
- UK Sort Code
- ABA
- BIC
- Wallet
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{
"type": "iban",
"iban": "DE89370400440532013000",
"account_holder_name": "Acme Sandbox Ltd.",
"bic": "COBADEFFXXX"
}
Date of birth in YYYY-MM-DD format, or null if not recorded.
Whether the counterparty is self-owned. false if the counterparty is not owned by you, true if it is.
Whether payments to or from this counterparty are currently blocked.
Set of up to 50 key-value string pairs you can attach to store structured information, such as correlating this resource with an object in your own system. Keys may be up to 40 characters and values up to 500 characters.
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{ "invoice_id": "INV-2026-0042" }
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