# Create affiliate coupon

{% hint style="warning" %}
Affiliate coupons can only be created for affiliates belonging to campaigns that have a campaign coupon associated with them.  This must be done via the Rewardful dashboard.
{% endhint %}

## Request

| Method | URL                                                 |
| ------ | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `POST` | `https://api.getrewardful.com/v1/affiliate_coupons` |

### Parameters

| Parameter      | Required | Description                                                                                                                                 |
| -------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `affiliate_id` | `yes`    | The ID of the affiliate this coupon will be created for                                                                                     |
| `token`        | `yes`    | The actual alphanumeric coupon or promo code. It must be identical to one defined in Stripe, otherwise sales won't be tracked in Rewardful. |

### Example

```bash
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.getrewardful.com/v1/affiliate_coupons \
  -u YOUR_API_SECRET: \
  -d affiliate_id=f46a912b-08bc-4332-8771-c857e11ad9dd \
  -d token=MYCODE
```

## Response

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Success" %}

| Response code | Body                                                                                                     |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `200`         | The created [affiliate coupon object](/rest-api/affiliate-coupons/the-affiliate-coupon-object.md) (JSON) |
| {% endtab %}  |                                                                                                          |

{% tab title="Failures" %}

### Invalid parameters

| Response code | body                                      |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| `422`         | JSON object describing validation errors. |

```json
{
  "error": "Could not create affiliate coupon.",
  "details": ["Token can't be blank. "]
}
```

### Authentication failure

| Response code | Body                                         |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| `401`         | JSON object describing authentication error. |

```json
{  "error": "Invalid API Secret." }
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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