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# Read handwritten-card spending governance

> Returns workspace spend caps, approval requirements, suppression, deduplication and address-verification policy; creates defaults when absent. Requires the configured Handwrytten feature (normally handwrytten_mailings). Requires permission: one of account, manage_settings, mailings_manage, access_account_settings (raw capability).



## OpenAPI

````yaml get /admin/handwrytten/governance
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Gratona API
  description: >-
    REST API for the Gratona fundraising platform, including donor, donation,
    sponsorship, program, event, and integration workflows. Endpoints are
    organized by tag. Most endpoints require either a Passport bearer token or
    an issued API key — see the Security Schemes section.
  contact:
    name: Gratona Engineering
    url: https://gratona.com
    email: devs@gratona.com
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://api.gratona.com/v1
    description: Server Version 1.0.0
security: []
tags:
  - name: Auth
    description: >-
      Login, signup, logout, password reset, and email verification for admin
      users and donors.
  - name: Donors
    description: >-
      Donor records: CRUD, profile fields, household linkage, search, filters,
      merge, and duplicate detection.
  - name: Donations
    description: >-
      Individual donation records, recurring commitments, soft credits, refunds,
      designations, and exports.
  - name: Sponsorships
    description: >-
      Donor-to-entity commitment relationships, lifecycle transitions, and
      commitment-specific filters.
  - name: Entities
    description: >-
      Recipient records (children, families, projects, animals, etc.), their
      status, and entity-level fields.
  - name: Programs
    description: >-
      Program / campaign configuration: hierarchy, settings, and program-level
      metadata.
  - name: Forms
    description: >-
      Custom form builder (HysForm), form fields, standardized donor fields, and
      field migrations.
  - name: Trips
    description: >-
      Mission-trip management: trips, participants, budgets, tasks,
      e-signatures, fundraising milestones, and background checks.
  - name: Communications
    description: >-
      Email templates, SMS, newsletters, donor email manager, and per-donor
      notes.
  - name: Payments
    description: >-
      Payment-gateway management (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, QuickBooks).
      Excludes inbound webhooks — see the Webhooks tag.
  - name: Reports
    description: Dashboards, analytics, scheduled reports, and exports.
  - name: Admin
    description: >-
      Client-account administration: users, groups/permissions, settings,
      integrations, and account lifecycle.
  - name: Donor Portal
    description: >-
      Endpoints consumed by the donor-facing portal (donor login, dashboard,
      donation history, messages).
  - name: Recipient Portal
    description: Endpoints consumed by the recipient-facing portal.
  - name: Public
    description: >-
      Unauthenticated public endpoints: donor signup, public trip pages,
      peer-to-peer campaigns, public checkout.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Inbound webhooks from third parties (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, Checkr,
      DropboxSign). Annotated minimally for reference; payload shapes are owned
      by the upstream provider.
  - name: Events
    description: >-
      Event setup, invitations, registration, ticketing, attendance and event
      reporting.
  - name: Journeys
    description: >-
      Journey graphs, activation, enrollment, message templates and event
      follow-up automations.
  - name: Tasks
    description: Workspace tasks, assignments, saved task views and record collaboration.
  - name: Fundraising
    description: >-
      Fundraising portfolios, stewardship plans, giving anniversaries and
      personal donor follow-up.
  - name: Impact Stories
    description: Story intake, review, assets, consent and publication workflows.
  - name: Integrations
    description: Workspace integration connections, mappings, synchronization and recovery.
  - name: Email Calendar
    description: Connected email/calendar accounts and donor interactions.
  - name: Spaces
    description: Workspace Spaces and collaborative Pages.
  - name: Library
    description: Workspace documents, source connections, files and analysis.
  - name: Intelligence
    description: Donor intelligence and Tali workspace workflows.
  - name: Automation
    description: >-
      V3 automation primitive discovery, input validation, invocation and Zapier
      contracts.
  - name: Schema
    description: V3 model, enum, capability and scope discovery.
  - name: Zapier
    description: Zapier automation connections, polling feeds and actions.
  - name: Files
    description: Files
  - name: Client
    description: Client
  - name: Payment Gateways
    description: Payment Gateways
  - name: Email Settings
    description: Email Settings
  - name: Admin Dashboard
    description: Admin Dashboard
  - name: Recipients
    description: Recipients
  - name: Historical Archived Updates
    description: Historical Archived Updates
  - name: Team & access
    description: Team & access
  - name: Settings
    description: Settings
  - name: Notifications
    description: Notifications
  - name: Participation
    description: Participation
  - name: Users
    description: Users
  - name: Wrapped
    description: Wrapped
  - name: Donor SignUp
    description: Donor SignUp
  - name: Frontend
    description: Frontend
  - name: User
    description: User
  - name: Workspace
    description: Workspace
paths:
  /admin/handwrytten/governance:
    get:
      tags:
        - Fundraising
      summary: Read handwritten-card spending governance
      description: >-
        Returns workspace spend caps, approval requirements, suppression,
        deduplication and address-verification policy; creates defaults when
        absent. Requires the configured Handwrytten feature (normally
        handwrytten_mailings). Requires permission: one of account,
        manage_settings, mailings_manage, access_account_settings (raw
        capability).
      operationId: stewardshipHandwryttenGovernance
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Operation result.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  data:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/StewardshipHandwryttenGovernance'
                type: object
        '401':
          description: Authentication is required.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedResponse'
        '403':
          description: >-
            The authenticated user lacks access to this workflow or its related
            records.
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
        - apiKeyAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    StewardshipHandwryttenGovernance:
      description: >-
        Workspace spending/approval rules. Omitted updates preserve existing
        values; defaults enforce suppression and household deduplication,
        require approval above zero cents and observe a 60-day outcome window.
      properties:
        id:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        client_id:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        monthly_cap_cents:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        per_user_monthly_cap_cents:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        low_balance_threshold_cents:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        require_approval_over_cents:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        outcome_window_days:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        updated_by_user_id:
          description: Count or cent amount.
          type: integer
          example: 100
          nullable: true
        require_director_for_inserts:
          description: Workflow state.
          type: boolean
          example: true
        enforce_suppression:
          description: Workflow state.
          type: boolean
          example: true
        household_dedupe:
          description: Workflow state.
          type: boolean
          example: true
        require_cass_verification:
          description: Workflow state.
          type: boolean
          example: true
        program_caps_json:
          description: >-
            Program-id keyed caps; cent amounts or objects with cent/dollar cap
            fields.
          oneOf:
            - type: object
              additionalProperties: {}
            - type: array
              items: {}
            - type: string
              enum:
                - null
              nullable: true
        campaign_caps_json:
          description: Campaign-key keyed caps.
          oneOf:
            - type: object
              additionalProperties: {}
            - type: array
              items: {}
            - type: string
              enum:
                - null
              nullable: true
        created_at:
          description: Timestamp.
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
          nullable: true
        updated_at:
          description: Timestamp.
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
          nullable: true
      type: object
    UnauthorizedResponse:
      title: UnauthorizedResponse
      description: >-
        Returned with HTTP 401 when the request lacks a valid Passport bearer
        token, a valid `X-HYS-API-Key`, or a valid session. The body is the
        simple `{message, status}` envelope emitted by `AuthenticateApiOrKey`.
      required:
        - message
        - status
      properties:
        message:
          description: >-
            Always the literal string `Unauthorized` from the `auth.api_or_key`
            middleware. Login endpoints return `Invalid Credentials` instead.
          type: string
          example: Unauthorized
        status:
          type: string
          example: error
      type: object
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      description: Passport bearer token authentication for legacy admin sessions.
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      description: Gratona API key sent with the compatibility header X-HYS-API-Key.
      name: X-HYS-API-Key
      in: header

````

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