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[frank wolf]

Hi, are you referring to Issuing spending controls here?

[regal oriole]

yes

[frank wolf]

Yeap, you can set the spending controls, https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/controls/spending-controls for these categories: https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/categories. However, you intent to manually control this on your end, then yes.

[regal oriole]

The docs imply that if allowed_categories is empty it will block everything

So, if we want to do this would we need to instead just set every category as allowed?

[frank wolf]

Can you hare the document where you're seeing this? My read on this is you can set spending control but do not have to. Like it's not a required hash: https://stripe.com/docs/api/issuing/cards/object#issuing_card_object-spending_controls

[regal oriole]

We set spending limits so we still set the controls, we just don't want to set the categories any longer.

It's the same doc you gave earlier (https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/controls/spending-controls)

allowed_categories array List of categories of authorizations to allow. All other categories will be blocked.

[frank wolf]

It states that it should be used with the either allowed_categories or blocked_categories, but it does not appear to be a requirement. I'd recommend testing this on your end

Each spending limit only applies to its own categories. Spending limits alone do not block categories and should be used with either allowed_categories or blocked_categories to restrict spending to specific business types.

[regal oriole]

Just about to in the test environment

Doesn't let me set it to empty

I can do it in the dashboard - removing all of the categories. But Stripe::Issuing::Cardholder.update doesn't allow me to set it to empty. It just sends an empty body in the request

[frank wolf]

Can you share the request id with me please?

[regal oriole]

req_gxYtK8nEsDoZzB

Here's one where I set it to just one of the categories req_BBSTHLEsPTe9ua

req_0z7WhWr1yG10eb and this is the one that was done through the dashboard

[frank wolf]

Yo might want to pass an empty string on allowed_categories:""

[regal oriole]

ok, I'll try that