Custom Amounts

Last Updated: April 12, 2013

This document lays out the specification of interacting with the Qgiv Custom Amounts system, allowing for reading, writing, and updating custom amounts.

Custom Amount Properties

GET : https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/list

Returns all custom amounts associated with the current form or organization

100.00 Bronze Bronze Donation 1 0
{
   "amounts":[
      {
         "id":"7742",
         "value":"100.00",
         "title":"Bronze",
         "description":"Bronze Donation",
         "state":"1",
         "sort":"0"
      }
      ...
   ]
}
Libraries to use :
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;


string postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP";
HttpWebResponse resp = null;
string result = null;

try {
HttpWebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(new Uri("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/list.xml")) as HttpWebRequest;
req.Method = "POST";
req.Accept = "*/*";
req.UserAgent = "http_request/0.1";
req.Timeout = 50000;
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
byte[] formData = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
using (Stream post = req.GetRequestStream()) {
post.Write(formData, 0, formData.Length);
}
// Pick up the response:
resp = req.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

if (resp.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK) {
using (resp) {
StreamReader reader =
new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
result = "error : " + e.Message;
}
String data = URLEncoder.encode("token", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP", "UTF-8");

URL url = new URL("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/list.xml");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();

BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
String output;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
output += line;
}

wr.close();
rd.close();
return output;
var apiRequest = false;
var url = "https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/list.xml";
var postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP";
var results;

var isIE8 = window.XDomainRequest ? true : false;
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
if(isIE8) {
apiRequest = new Window.XDomainRequest()
} else {
apiRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var ieVersions = ["MSXML2.XMLHttp.5.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.4.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp","Microsoft.XMLHttp"];
for (var i = 0; i < ieVersions.length; i++) {
try {
apiRequest = new ActiveXObject(aVersions[i]);
} catch(oError) {
throw new Error("XMLHttp object could be created.");
}
}
}

if (!apiRequest) {
alert("An error has occuerd while creating XMLHttpRequest object");
}


if (apiRequest) {
apiRequest.open("POST", url, true);
apiRequest.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
apiRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
apiRequest.send(postData);
}

function handleResponse() {
if (apiRequest.readyState == 4) {
if (apiRequest.status == 200) {
results = apiRequest.responseText;
} else {
results = "Server response is unsuccessful";
}
} else {
results = "Server response is incomplete"
}
}
$postArray = array(
   'token' => '[your API token]'
);

$postString = http_build_query($postArray);

$url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/list.xml';

$curlHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);

if (curl_errno($curlHandler)) {
$response = 'error : '.curl_error($curlHandler);
} else {
curl_close($curlHandler);
}

return $response;

import urllib, urllib2

postArray = {
   'token' => '[your API token]'
}

postString = urllib.urlencode(postArray)

url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/list.xml';

request = urllib2.Request(url, data=data)

try:
  response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
  result = response.read()
  response.close()
except urllib2.URLError, e:
  result = 'error : ' + str(e.code)

return result

GET : /amounts/[id]

Returns the custom amount requested, individually specified by ID.

100.00 Bronze Bronze Donation 1 0
{
   "amount":[
      {
         "id":"7742",
         "value":"100.00",
         "title":"Bronze",
         "description":"Bronze Donation",
         "state":"1",
         "sort":"0"
      }
   ]
}
Libraries to use :
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;


string postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP";
HttpWebResponse resp = null;
string result = null;

try {
HttpWebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(new Uri("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml")) as HttpWebRequest;
req.Method = "POST";
req.Accept = "*/*";
req.UserAgent = "http_request/0.1";
req.Timeout = 50000;
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
byte[] formData = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
using (Stream post = req.GetRequestStream()) {
post.Write(formData, 0, formData.Length);
}
// Pick up the response:
resp = req.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

if (resp.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK) {
using (resp) {
StreamReader reader =
new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
result = "error : " + e.Message;
}
String data = URLEncoder.encode("token", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP", "UTF-8");

URL url = new URL("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();

BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
String output;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
output += line;
}

wr.close();
rd.close();
return output;
var apiRequest = false;
var url = "https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml";
var postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP";
var results;

var isIE8 = window.XDomainRequest ? true : false;
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
if(isIE8) {
apiRequest = new Window.XDomainRequest()
} else {
apiRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var ieVersions = ["MSXML2.XMLHttp.5.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.4.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp","Microsoft.XMLHttp"];
for (var i = 0; i < ieVersions.length; i++) {
try {
apiRequest = new ActiveXObject(aVersions[i]);
} catch(oError) {
throw new Error("XMLHttp object could be created.");
}
}
}

if (!apiRequest) {
alert("An error has occuerd while creating XMLHttpRequest object");
}


if (apiRequest) {
apiRequest.open("POST", url, true);
apiRequest.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
apiRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
apiRequest.send(postData);
}

function handleResponse() {
if (apiRequest.readyState == 4) {
if (apiRequest.status == 200) {
results = apiRequest.responseText;
} else {
results = "Server response is unsuccessful";
}
} else {
results = "Server response is incomplete"
}
}
$postArray = array(
   'token' => '[your API token]'
);

$postString = http_build_query($postArray);

$url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml';

$curlHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);

if (curl_errno($curlHandler)) {
$response = 'error : '.curl_error($curlHandler);
} else {
curl_close($curlHandler);
}

return $response;

import urllib, urllib2

postArray = {
   'token' => '[your API token]'
}

postString = urllib.urlencode(postArray)

url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml';

request = urllib2.Request(url, data=data)

try:
  response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
  result = response.read()
  response.close()
except urllib2.URLError, e:
  result = 'error : ' + str(e.code)

return result

POST : /amounts/create

Creates one or more custom amounts with the values passed in, returning the complete custom amounts with the new ID

Input

100.00 Bronze Bronze Donation
{"amounts":[
	{
		"value":"100.00",
		"title":"Bronze",
		"description":"Bronze Donation"
	}
	...
]}
Libraries to use :
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;


string postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP&package=[xml or json formatted input]";
HttpWebResponse resp = null;
string result = null;

try {
HttpWebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(new Uri("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/create.xml")) as HttpWebRequest;
req.Method = "POST";
req.Accept = "*/*";
req.UserAgent = "http_request/0.1";
req.Timeout = 50000;
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
byte[] formData = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
using (Stream post = req.GetRequestStream()) {
post.Write(formData, 0, formData.Length);
}
// Pick up the response:
resp = req.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

if (resp.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK) {
using (resp) {
StreamReader reader =
new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
result = "error : " + e.Message;
}
String data = URLEncoder.encode("token", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP", "UTF-8");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("package", "UTF-8") + "=" URLEncoder.encode("[xml or json formatted input]", "UTF-8");

URL url = new URL("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/create.xml");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();

BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
String output;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
output += line;
}

wr.close();
rd.close();
return output;
var apiRequest = false;
var url = "https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/create.xml";
var postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP&package=[xml or json formatted input]";
var results;

var isIE8 = window.XDomainRequest ? true : false;
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
if(isIE8) {
apiRequest = new Window.XDomainRequest()
} else {
apiRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var ieVersions = ["MSXML2.XMLHttp.5.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.4.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp","Microsoft.XMLHttp"];
for (var i = 0; i < ieVersions.length; i++) {
try {
apiRequest = new ActiveXObject(aVersions[i]);
} catch(oError) {
throw new Error("XMLHttp object could be created.");
}
}
}

if (!apiRequest) {
alert("An error has occuerd while creating XMLHttpRequest object");
}


if (apiRequest) {
apiRequest.open("POST", url, true);
apiRequest.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
apiRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
apiRequest.send(postData);
}

function handleResponse() {
if (apiRequest.readyState == 4) {
if (apiRequest.status == 200) {
results = apiRequest.responseText;
} else {
results = "Server response is unsuccessful";
}
} else {
results = "Server response is incomplete"
}
}
$postArray = array(
'token' => '[your API token]',
'package' => '[xml or json formatted input]'
);

$postString = http_build_query($postArray);

$url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/create.xml';

$curlHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);

if (curl_errno($curlHandler)) {
$response = 'error : '.curl_error($curlHandler);
} else {
curl_close($curlHandler);
}

return $response;

import urllib, urllib2

postArray = {
'token' : '[your API token]',
'package' : '[xml or json formatted input]'
}

postString = urllib.urlencode(postArray)

url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/create.xml';

request = urllib2.Request(url, data=data)

try:
  response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
  result = response.read()
  response.close()
except urllib2.URLError, e:
  result = 'error : ' + str(e.code)

return result

Output

100.00 Bronze Bronze Donation 1 0
{
   "amounts":[
      {
         "id":"7742",
         "value":"100.00",
         "title":"Bronze",
         "description":"Bronze Donation",
         "state":"1",
         "sort":"0"
      }
      ...
   ]
}

POST : https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/[id]

Updates the custom amount with the values passed in, returning the updated custom amount

Input

50.00
{"amounts":[
	{
		"id":"7742",
		"value":"50.00",
	}
	...
]}
Libraries to use :
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;


string postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP&package=[xml or json formatted input]";
HttpWebResponse resp = null;
string result = null;

try {
HttpWebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(new Uri("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml")) as HttpWebRequest;
req.Method = "POST";
req.Accept = "*/*";
req.UserAgent = "http_request/0.1";
req.Timeout = 50000;
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
byte[] formData = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
using (Stream post = req.GetRequestStream()) {
post.Write(formData, 0, formData.Length);
}
// Pick up the response:
resp = req.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

if (resp.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK) {
using (resp) {
StreamReader reader =
new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
result = "error : " + e.Message;
}
String data = URLEncoder.encode("token", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP", "UTF-8");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("package", "UTF-8") + "=" URLEncoder.encode("[xml or json formatted input]", "UTF-8");

URL url = new URL("https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();

BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
String output;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
output += line;
}

wr.close();
rd.close();
return output;
var apiRequest = false;
var url = "https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml";
var postData = "token=skyMV9YeaxQ7EjbEUHt8TUiP&package=[xml or json formatted input]";
var results;

var isIE8 = window.XDomainRequest ? true : false;
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
if(isIE8) {
apiRequest = new Window.XDomainRequest()
} else {
apiRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var ieVersions = ["MSXML2.XMLHttp.5.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.4.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0","MSXML2.XMLHttp","Microsoft.XMLHttp"];
for (var i = 0; i < ieVersions.length; i++) {
try {
apiRequest = new ActiveXObject(aVersions[i]);
} catch(oError) {
throw new Error("XMLHttp object could be created.");
}
}
}

if (!apiRequest) {
alert("An error has occuerd while creating XMLHttpRequest object");
}


if (apiRequest) {
apiRequest.open("POST", url, true);
apiRequest.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
apiRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
apiRequest.send(postData);
}

function handleResponse() {
if (apiRequest.readyState == 4) {
if (apiRequest.status == 200) {
results = apiRequest.responseText;
} else {
results = "Server response is unsuccessful";
}
} else {
results = "Server response is incomplete"
}
}
$postArray = array(
'token' => '[your API token]',
'package' => '[xml or json formatted input]'
);

$postString = http_build_query($postArray);

$url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml';

$curlHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curlHandler, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);

if (curl_errno($curlHandler)) {
$response = 'error : '.curl_error($curlHandler);
} else {
curl_close($curlHandler);
}

return $response;

import urllib, urllib2

postArray = {
'token' : '[your API token]',
'package' : '[xml or json formatted input]'
}

postString = urllib.urlencode(postArray)

url = 'https://secure.qgiv.com/admin/api/amounts/7742.xml';

request = urllib2.Request(url, data=data)

try:
  response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
  result = response.read()
  response.close()
except urllib2.URLError, e:
  result = 'error : ' + str(e.code)

return result

Output

50.00 Bronze Bronze Donation 1 0
{
   "amounts":[
      {
         "id":"7742",
         "value":"50.00",
         "title":"Bronze",
         "description":"Bronze Donation",
         "state":"1",
         "sort":"0"
      }
      ...
   ]
}

* denotes a required field

** denotes a required field based on Event settings

*** denotes a field that is only required when submitting Form level API credentials