Get transaction receipt

GET https://api.light.inc/v1/card-transactions/{transactionId}/receipt

Returns the attached receipt document for a card transaction

Answers 307 Temporary Redirect to a pre-signed download URL valid for two hours, not the PDF bytes; follow it without your Light Authorization header. A transaction without a receipt fails with CARD_TRANSACTION_MISSING_RECEIPT.

Authorization

Send one of these on every request. See Authentication for how to get credentials.

API key
Basic authentication header of the form Basic <api_key>, where <api_key> is your api key.
Bearer token

Path parameters

transactionId string · uuidrequired

Response

Returns a file (application/pdf) rather than JSON.

curl -X GET "https://api.light.inc/v1/card-transactions/3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a/receipt" \
  -H "Authorization: Basic YOUR_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.light.inc/v1/card-transactions/3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a/receipt", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Basic ${process.env.LIGHT_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
const data = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.light.inc/v1/card-transactions/3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a/receipt",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Basic {os.environ['LIGHT_API_KEY']}"},
)
data = res.json()