Customiser materials

Create a material

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Adds a material to the customiser, at the end of the current presentation order.

POST/api/v3/customisers/{customiser_id}/materials

Create a material

Adds a material to the customiser, at the end of the current presentation order. Only `name` is required; every other field has a documented default (both exclusion arrays empty, `base_price` 0, `price_multiplier` 1, `price_multiplier_target` base_letter_price). `excluded_backboard_ids` and `excluded_mounting_ids` must name the customiser's own backboards and mountings — an id from another customiser or another store is a 422 on the offending element. Image fields are read-only until the upload surface ships, and `sort_order` moves only through the reorder operation; naming either is a 422. Requires `customisers:write` and an `Idempotency-Key`. The write clears the customiser's cached storefront configuration and runs the advisory language sync. It never regenerates Shopify products, product images, or the product cache, so live listings are untouched. Option writes also spend one unit of a separate per-key option-write budget; exhausting it returns a 429 with `retry_after`.

Create a material

Overview

Only name is required; every other field has a documented default (both exclusion arrays empty, base_price 0, price_multiplier 1, price_multiplier_target base_letter_price). excluded_backboard_ids and excluded_mounting_ids must name the customiser's own backboards and mountings — an id from another customiser or another store is a 422 on the offending element. Image fields are read-only until the upload surface ships, and sort_order moves only through the reorder operation; naming either is a 422. Requires customisers:write and an Idempotency-Key. The write clears the customiser's cached storefront configuration and runs the advisory language sync. It never regenerates Shopify products, product images, or the product cache, so live listings are untouched. Option writes also spend one unit of a separate per-key option-write budget; exhausting it returns a 429 with retry_after.

Authorisation

Bearer token required. Include it in the Authorization header.

Required scope: customisers:write

Path parameters

customiser_idstringpathrequired

The customiser id.

Example: 1

Request body

price_multiplier_targetstringbody

hexcodestringbody

namestringbody

descriptionstringbody

excluded_backboard_idsarraybody

excluded_mounting_idsarraybody

base_priceintegerbody

price_multipliernumberbody

Request body example

{
  "price_multiplier_target": "base_letter_price",
  "hexcode": "#737373",
  "name": "Brushed Aluminium",
  "description": "3mm brushed aluminium face",
  "excluded_backboard_ids": [
    11
  ],
  "excluded_mounting_ids": [
    4
  ],
  "base_price": 500,
  "price_multiplier": 1.2
}

Create a material

curl https://web.signcustomiser.com/api/v3/customisers/1/materials \
  --request POST \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "price_multiplier_target": "base_letter_price",
  "hexcode": "#737373",
  "name": "Brushed Aluminium",
  "description": "3mm brushed aluminium face",
  "excluded_backboard_ids": [
    11
  ],
  "excluded_mounting_ids": [
    4
  ],
  "base_price": 500,
  "price_multiplier": 1.2
}'

{
  "data": {
    "object": "material",
    "id": 5,
    "customiser_id": 42,
    "name": "Brushed Aluminium",
    "description": null,
    "hexcode": "#737373",
    "excluded_backboard_ids": [],
    "excluded_mounting_ids": [],
    "base_price": 0,
    "currency": "USD",
    "price_multiplier": 1,
    "price_multiplier_target": "base_letter_price",
    "sort_order": 1,
    "image_url": null,
    "button_image_url": null,
    "created_at": "2026-08-13T00:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-13T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://web.signcustomiser.com/api/v3/customisers/42/materials/5",
    "documentation": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/"
  },
  "meta": {
    "api_version": "v3",
    "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
  }
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/missing_idempotency_key",
  "title": "Missing idempotency key",
  "status": 400,
  "code": "missing_idempotency_key",
  "detail": "Provide an Idempotency-Key header for this write.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/missing_api_key",
  "title": "Missing API key",
  "status": 401,
  "code": "missing_api_key",
  "detail": "Provide a store API key as a bearer token.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/insufficient_scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "code": "insufficient_scope",
  "detail": "This operation requires the customisers:write scope.",
  "required_scopes": [
    "customisers:write"
  ],
  "granted_scopes": [
    "customisers:read"
  ],
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/resource_not_found",
  "title": "Resource not found",
  "status": 404,
  "code": "resource_not_found",
  "detail": "The requested resource does not exist or does not belong to the authenticated store.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/idempotency_key_conflict",
  "title": "Idempotency key conflict",
  "status": 409,
  "code": "idempotency_key_conflict",
  "detail": "This Idempotency-Key was already used for a different request body on this operation.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/request_too_large",
  "title": "Request too large",
  "status": 413,
  "code": "request_too_large",
  "detail": "The request body must not exceed 2 MiB.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/validation_failed",
  "title": "Validation failed",
  "status": 422,
  "code": "validation_failed",
  "detail": "The request payload failed validation.",
  "errors": [
    {
      "pointer": "/excluded_backboard_ids/0",
      "code": "invalid",
      "detail": "The selected backboard does not belong to this customiser."
    }
  ],
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}

{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/rate_limited",
  "title": "Too many requests",
  "status": 429,
  "code": "rate_limited",
  "detail": "You have exceeded the request limit for this API key.",
  "retry_after": 37,
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}