> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orbit.devotel.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Initiate a DCB charge > Validate a charge against the merchant's coverage + per-transaction cap and return an `initiated` charge snapshot. The operator dip is submitted separately via the carrier-billing route. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml post /api/v1/commerce/dcb/charge openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Devotel CPaaS API description: Orbit by Devotel — Communications Platform as a Service API version: 1.0.0 contact: name: Devotel url: https://devotel.io email: support@devotel.io license: name: Proprietary servers: - url: https://api.orbit.devotel.io description: Production security: - Bearer: [] - ApiKey: [] tags: - name: Messages description: >- Send and manage messages across all channels (SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Email, Viber, etc.) - name: Fax description: >- List and track fax (MMS/T.38) transmissions on Telnyx-backed fax numbers (sending flows through the Messaging API) - name: Agents description: AI agent creation, configuration, and execution - name: Voice description: Voice calls, IVR, conferencing, and SIP trunking - name: OnCall description: On-call rotations and escalation policy planning for incident alerting - name: Webhooks description: Webhook endpoint management and delivery logs - name: Numbers description: Phone number search, provisioning, and configuration - name: Brand Identity description: >- Unified cross-channel brand trust posture (10DLC, toll-free, WhatsApp, RCS, branded calling, number KYC) - name: Contacts description: Contact management, segmentation, and lifecycle tracking - name: Campaigns description: Marketing campaign orchestration and analytics - name: Flows description: Automation flow builder and execution engine - name: Templates description: Message template management and approval workflows - name: Settings description: Organization, channel, and user preference settings - name: Verify description: OTP generation and verification across channels - name: Push description: Push notification delivery via FCM and APNs - name: Integrations description: Third-party service connections and OAuth management - name: CDP description: >- Customer Data Platform — activation surface (CRM object sync, streaming destinations, ad-audience activation) - name: Files description: >- Server-to-server media upload, listing, retrieval, and deletion (signed-URL backed) - name: Commerce description: >- Omnichannel conversational-commerce — persistent cart + checkout state machine, channel-agnostic hosted pay-by-link, native WhatsApp checkout, and AP2-style agent payment mandates. - name: Sync description: >- Real-time shared-state primitive (Twilio Sync parity) — Documents, Maps, Lists, and ephemeral Streams, with change events relayed over the /api/v1/ws/sync WebSocket gateway paths: /api/v1/commerce/dcb/charge: post: tags: - Commerce summary: Initiate a DCB charge description: >- Validate a charge against the merchant's coverage + per-transaction cap and return an `initiated` charge snapshot. The operator dip is submitted separately via the carrier-billing route. requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object additionalProperties: true required: - merchant - charge properties: merchant: type: object additionalProperties: true description: >- Serializable DCB merchant config — settlement currency, per-transaction cap, and tenant-level operator coverage map. properties: merchantId: type: string displayName: type: string currency: type: string category: type: string maxChargeAmount: type: number coverage: type: array items: type: object additionalProperties: true properties: country: type: string description: ISO-3166-1 alpha-2. operator: type: string status: type: string enum: - live - pilot - unsupported description: >- Tenant-level billing readiness on a country+operator pair. Only `live` pairs may be charged. createdAt: type: number updatedAt: type: number charge: type: object additionalProperties: true required: - id - phoneNumber - country - operator - amount - currency - description properties: id: type: string phoneNumber: type: string country: type: string operator: type: string amount: type: number currency: type: string description: type: string merchantReference: type: string idempotencyKey: type: string responses: '200': description: The initiated charge. content: application/json: schema: type: object additionalProperties: true required: - data - meta properties: data: type: object additionalProperties: true description: >- Serializable DCB charge snapshot. The buyer MSISDN is stored masked; the operator dip rides the carrier-billing route. properties: id: type: string merchantId: type: string country: type: string operator: type: string buyerMsisdnMasked: type: string amount: type: number currency: type: string description: type: string merchantReference: type: - string - 'null' status: type: string enum: - initiated - captured - partially_refunded - refunded - charged_back - failed capturedAmount: type: number refundedAmount: type: number createdAt: type: number updatedAt: type: number settledAt: type: - number - 'null' meta: type: object additionalProperties: true properties: request_id: type: string timestamp: type: string format: date-time components: securitySchemes: Bearer: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT description: Dashboard JWT token from Clerk ApiKey: type: apiKey name: X-API-Key in: header description: Server-to-server API key (dv_live_sk_*) ````