# purchaseTokensNow

mutation · in the family [Billing and the wallet](/reference/billing-and-the-wallet/)

## What it does

Buy kernels NOW with the stored card — one press, no checkout.

Buy kernels NOW with the stored card: mints a TokenPurchase charged OFF-SESSION to the stored method (primary → backup ladder, the charger's fire mechanics; the SAME webhook settles the balance credit). ⚠ NOT budget-capped BY DESIGN — the day/month caps fence AUTO spend; an explicit press is its own authorization. The amount rides the createTokenPurchase bounds and must clear the volume-tier floor (below refuses VALIDATION). The wallet must be ACTIVE with custody armed (no stored method refuses CONFLICT/REF_STATE — use createTokenPurchase for a client-confirmed buy instead). Requires the unrestricted capability. Template class A16_BILLING (the createTokenPurchase class).

## What happens

Charges the stored method off-session (backup as fallback) and credits the balance through the same recorded purchase flow.

## Careful

Real money for platform credits; the day/month auto-buy budgets do NOT apply to an explicit press.

## Who may call it

Capability area: **Billing and the wallet** — Your platform bill, token purchases and the usage and cost reads.

- Owner
- Manager
- Associate Manager
- An API key whose scope allows `api:purchaseTokensNow`

## Arguments

| Name | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `input` | [NewTokenPurchaseInput](/types/NewTokenPurchaseInput/) `NewTokenPurchaseInput!` | yes | No further notes. |

## Returns

[TokenPurchase](/types/TokenPurchase/) `TokenPurchase!` — A TokenPurchase — buying platform tokens with real money (\*\*Stripe primary\*\*; ACH/wire/invoiced = deferral 7): $ → tokens at the volume tier (tier_1 | tier_2 | tier_3 — SERVER-computed, never client-asserted), loaded into the GROUP's TokenAccount as a purchase TokenEntry when the webhook settles. \*\*AT/stack charging the MERCHANT\*\* — the platform account's OWN PaymentIntent (distinct from the merchant's customer Payments and the Connect plane). \*\*NON-REFUNDABLE\*\*. The FSM is the ratified 3-STATE table VERBATIM: created(i) → succeeded ▣ / failed ✦, BOTH edges system:stripe_webhook — NO caller transitions and NOTHING mutable between birth and settlement ⇒ the wire realizes {create:true, update:false, transitions:false} (a NEW suppression combination — the webhook-settled document). The birth op mints the TEST PaymentIntent api-side with the LOAD-BEARING metadata {at_kind, tokenPurchaseId, rootId} (ruling — the lesson: PI metadata IS the join key; the EXISTING platform 8-event endpoint roster covers the lane — payment_intent.succeeded/payment_failed/canceled; canceled settles failed). The real-money gate = classification × Stripe MODE (ruling: live-mode charges require a production-classified group; test-mode is legal for ANY classification — that is how the goldens run; the mode derives from the custodied key, never asserted). Purchase-abandon reconciliation beyond canceled = deferral 14a. NOT searchable. Template class A16_BILLING (hand-derived v23).

## Example request

```graphql
mutation ExamplePurchaseTokensNow($input: NewTokenPurchaseInput!) {
  purchaseTokensNow(input: $input) {
    id
    sysId
    type
    caption
    status
    parentId
    rootId
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    revisionNum
    revision
    usdAmountCents
    tokensPurchased
    volumeTierCode
    rateCardVersion
    stripePaymentIntentId
    settledAt
  }
}
```

Variables:

```json
{
  "input": {
    "caption": "Blue jeans",
    "usdAmountCents": 1
  }
}
```

Send it with the envelope naming the version: `"extensions": {"at": {"version": {"name":"genesis","number":0}}}`.

## Example response

```json
{
  "data": {
    "purchaseTokensNow": {
      "id": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-37386ae00000",
      "sysId": "TP-EXMP-0000-000F",
      "type": "TokenPurchase",
      "caption": "Blue jeans",
      "status": "created",
      "parentId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-065235280000",
      "rootId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-a093dd800000",
      "createdAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "revisionNum": 1,
      "revision": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-b7960e180000",
      "usdAmountCents": 1,
      "tokensPurchased": 1,
      "volumeTierCode": "BJ-001",
      "rateCardVersion": 1,
      "stripePaymentIntentId": "<stripe payment intent id>",
      "settledAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  },
  "extensions": {
    "at": {
      "callId": "01EXAMPLE-CALL-ID",
      "version": {
        "requested": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        },
        "serviced": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Errors this call can answer

- `VALIDATION/INVALID` — Something in the request is not valid. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))
- `AUTHN/REQUIRED` — Sign in to do this. ([AUTHN](/errors/AUTHN/))
- `AUTHZ/FORBIDDEN` — Your role does not allow this action. ([AUTHZ](/errors/AUTHZ/))
- `RATE_LIMIT/THROTTLED` — Too many requests in a short time. ([RATE_LIMIT](/errors/RATE_LIMIT/))
- `CONFLICT/*` — The record’s state, or a change made in the meantime, does not allow this; the codes are on the CONFLICT page. ([CONFLICT](/errors/CONFLICT/))
- `VALIDATION/VERSION_REQUIRED` — The request did not say which app version it came from. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))

## Used in

- [Fund the AI wallet and see what the platform costs you](/use-cases/fund-the-ai-wallet/)