Create an order - Merchant Orders - Mercado Pago Developers

Create an order

POST

/merchant_orders

Generate an order to associate it with the payment preference and obtain the necessary URL to start the payment flow.

Localization: bodyAdditional information

Localization: bodyapplication identifier

Localization: bodyReference you can synchronize with your payment system

Localization: bodyitems information

Localization: bodyid

Localization: bodyShow the current merchant order state

opened: Order without payments.

closed: Order with payments covering total amount.

expired: Canceled order that does not have approved or pending payments (all rejected or returned).

Localization: bodyexternal_reference

Localization: bodypreference_id

curl -X POST \
    'https://api.mercadopago.com/merchant_orders' \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN_ENV' \ 
    -d '{
  "external_reference": "default",
  "preference_id": "Preference identification",
  "payer": {
    "id": 123,
    "nickname": "JOHN"
  },
  "site_id": "MLA",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "item id",
      "category_id": "item category",
      "currency_id": "BRL",
      "description": "item description",
      "picture_url": "item picture",
      "quantity": 1,
      "unit_price": 5,
      "title": "item title"
    }
  ],
  "application_id": 10000000000000000
}'

{
  "id": 9999999999,
  "status": "closed",
  "external_reference": "default",
  "preference_id": "Preference identification",
  "collector": {
    "id": 999999999
  },
  "marketplace": "NONE",
  "date_created": "2018-09-14T17:11:31.000Z",
  "last_updated": "2018-09-14T17:11:43.000Z",
  "shipping_cost": 0,
  "total_amount": 5,
  "site_id": "mla",
  "paid_amount": 5,
  "refunded_amount": 0,
  "payer": {
    "id": 999999999
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "item id",
      "category_id": "item category",
      "currency_id": "BRL",
      "description": "item description",
      "picture_url": "item picture url",
      "title": "item title",
      "quantity": 1,
      "unit_price": 5
    }
  ],
  "additional_info": "additional information",
  "application_id": 10000000000000000,
  "order_status": "paid"
}

400bad_request

invalid_user_idinvalid users involved.

invalid_order_statethe action requested is not valid for the current merchant order state.

invalid_stringstring too long.

invalid_application_idinternal server error.

invalid_itemsinvalid unit_price.

user_not_alloweduser not allowed to operate.

invalid_operation_typeinvalid operation type.

invalid_payerinvalid payer identifier.

invalid_idinvalid preference_id.

invalid_expiredthe preference_id has expired.

invalid_sponsor_idinvalid sponsor_id.

invalid_marketplaceinvalid marketplace.

unmarshal_errorcould not unmarshal request body into merchant order struct.

invalid_urlinvalid URL. Isn't HTTP or HTTPS.

communication_errorError when calling...

401bad_request

invalid_tokenaccess denied.

invalid_caller_idinvalid caller_id

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