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Pay Bad Debt

client.Accounts.PayBadDebt.New(ctx, params) (*PayBadDebtNewResponse, error)
POST/accounts/{account_id}/pay-bad-debt

Pays outstanding bad debt for an account. Discovers all debt automatically and handles invoice deduplication.

Security
API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY
API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194
ParametersExpand Collapse
params PayBadDebtNewParams
AccountID param.Field[string]

Path param: Identifier

maxLength32
PaymentMethodID param.Field[string]Optional

Body param: The payment method to use. If omitted, the default payment method is used.

ReturnsExpand Collapse
type PayBadDebtNewResponse struct{…}
ClientSecret stringOptional

The Stripe client secret for frontend payment confirmation.

Pay Bad Debt

package main

import (
  "context"
  "fmt"

  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/accounts"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/option"
)

func main() {
  client := cloudflare.NewClient(
    option.WithAPIToken("Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY"),
  )
  payBadDebt, err := client.Accounts.PayBadDebt.New(context.TODO(), accounts.PayBadDebtNewParams{
    AccountID: cloudflare.F("023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353"),
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err.Error())
  }
  fmt.Printf("%+v\n", payBadDebt.ClientSecret)
}
{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "client_secret": "client_secret"
  },
  "success": true
}
Returns Examples
{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "client_secret": "client_secret"
  },
  "success": true
}