Player Item Management - Subtract User Virtual Currency

NOTE: This is a Legacy Economy API, and is in bugfix-only mode. All new Economy features are being developed only for version 2. Decrements the user's balance of the specified virtual currency by the stated amount. It is possible to make a VC balance negative with this API.

POST https://titleId.playfabapi.com/Client/SubtractUserVirtualCurrency

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
Amount True

number

Amount to be subtracted from the user balance of the specified virtual currency.

VirtualCurrency True

string

Name of the virtual currency which is to be decremented.

CustomTags

object

The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.).

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

ModifyUserVirtualCurrencyResult

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

ModifyUserVirtualCurrencyResult
SubtractUserVirtualCurrencyRequest

This API must be enabled for use as an option in the game manager website. It is disabled by default.

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

ModifyUserVirtualCurrencyResult

Name Type Description
Balance

number

Balance of the virtual currency after modification.

BalanceChange

number

Amount added or subtracted from the user's virtual currency. Maximum VC balance is Int32 (2,147,483,647). Any increase over this value will be discarded.

PlayFabId

string

User currency was subtracted from.

VirtualCurrency

string

Name of the virtual currency which was modified.

SubtractUserVirtualCurrencyRequest

This API must be enabled for use as an option in the game manager website. It is disabled by default.

Name Type Description
Amount

number

Amount to be subtracted from the user balance of the specified virtual currency.

CustomTags

object

The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.).

VirtualCurrency

string

Name of the virtual currency which is to be decremented.

Error Codes

Name Code
APINotEnabledForGameClientAccess 1082
InvalidVirtualCurrency 1051
VirtualCurrencyCurrentlyUnavailable 1512