Frisbii Billing and Pay uses conventional HTTP response codes to indicate success or failure of an API request. In general, codes in the 2xx range indicate success, codes in the 4xx range indicate an error that resulted from the provided information, and codes in the 5xx range indicate an error at Frisbii Billing and Pay or external systems used by Frisbii Billing and Pay.

HTTP Status Code Summary

HTTP code	Description
`200` - OK	Everything worked as expected.
`400` - Bad Request	Illegal operation on a resource
`401` - Unauthorized	No valid authentication provided
`403` - Forbidden	Authentication given but not authorized to resource operation
`404` - Not Found	The requested resource or referenced resources could not be found
`405` - Method Not Allowed	The used HTTP method is not allowed on the resource
`422` - Unprocessable Entity	The request could not be interpreted, often missing a required parameter or wrongly formatted parameters
`429` - Request limiting exceeded	The request is declined either due to request rate limiting (`code=122`) or concurrent requests limit (`code=123`).
`500-504` - Server Errors	An internal error occurred on Frisbii Billing and Pay's end

Error response

All non successful 2xx responses will return a generic JSON error response with the following parameters.

{
  "code" : 13,
  "error" : "Subscription expired",
  "http_reason" : "Bad Request",
  "http_status" : 400,
  "path" : "/v1/subscription/WHBBv/expire",
  "timestamp" : "2015-06-12T06:38:33.876+0000",
  "request-id" : "de03e86d0a6d44359b249340f967ddc9",
  "transaction_error" : "credit_card_expired"
}

Parameter	Type	Description
`code`	integer	Frisbii Billing and Pay API error code. See full list of error codes here
`error`	string	Short error message
`message`	string	Optional clarifying error message
`http_status`	integer	HTTP status code of the error (same as the HTTP response)
`http_reason`	string	HTTP reason of the error (same as the HTTP response)
`path`	string	The path generating the error response
`timestamp`	string	Date when the error occurred. In ISO-8601 extended offset date-time format.
`request-id`	string	Unique request id for the failed request.
`transaction_error`	string	Optional transaction error in the case the request involved transaction processing. See table below with possible transaction errors.