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Economy V2 - Adding Virtual Currency

Hi,

If we wanted to award a player virtual currency through our backend or game servers, what is the API we should be using? The Quickstart, under "Granting Currencies" suggests to use *AddInventoryItems*.

This API expects an "ItemId". I have tried supplying:

- The id of the virtual currency

- The id of a bundle that awards currency (which works when purchasing via Steam and then redeeming)

- Another item, to test, that has nothing to do with currency.

In all cases, my JSON body for the call looks like:

{
  "Item": {
    "Id": "id-of-item"
  },
  "Entity": {
    "Id": "playfab-id-of-player",
    "Type": "master_player_account"
  },
  "Amount": 3,
  "ReturnInventory": false
}

And in all cases I'm getting a response of 

{
    "code": 400,
    "status": "BadRequest",
    "error": "InvalidRequest",
    "errorCode": 1071,
    "errorMessage": "Asset (id-of-item) was not found."
}

Can you advise on what I'm doing wrong here?

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Xiao Zha answered

You may change the Entity property to title player account and since you are not specifying the Item StackId , the item will be in the default stack. For better management the Items, you can specify a StackId. You can refer to Inventory Stacks - PlayFab | Microsoft Learn to have more information about Stack.

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gordon answered

I was able to work this out. For anyone in future encountering the same issue, I needed to use the title_player_account and not the PlayFabId, but the Player Title Id instead.

Makes some sense in hindsight.

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