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Ironfang Finance API problem type

billing_temporarily_unavailable

Billing temporarily unavailable. HTTP 503.

What it means

Billing could not admit the operation just now. Nothing was accepted or charged.

What to do

Send the request again after retry_after_seconds (also the Retry-After header).

What the response carries

type
https://ironfang.com/problems/billing_temporarily_unavailable, this page.
status
Always 503 for this code.
code
billing_temporarily_unavailable. Stable: branch on this, not on the wording of title or detail.
detail
What happened this time, safe to show to a person. It never carries invoice content.
request_id
The same value as the X-Ironfang-Request-ID header. Quote it to support.
retry_after_seconds
May be present, with a matching Retry-After header: wait that long before retrying.
outcome
Absent. This code is not a statement about any document.

Problems follow RFC 9457 and are served as application/problem+json. A validation finding is never a Problem: an invalid invoice is a successful response that lists its findings. See every problem type, the Finance guide and the OpenAPI contract.