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Creating Payment Card Programs using Marqeta API in JavaScript

Create and Update Users

Explore how to create and update Marqeta users via API calls, including managing parent-child user relationships and account sharing. Understand the key parameters and responses to effectively control user data and card access.

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A Marqeta user, also known as a cardholder, is a person who owns a Marqeta card. A Marqeta user can use funds from an account with a physical or virtual Marqeta card. Each Marqeta user is also an account holder since every user has a general purpose account (GPA) that they can use to transfer funds.

Moreover, we have a parent-child relationship among Marqeta users, where one user or businessA business is an account holder that can be a parent of a Marqeta user. While a business does not hold any cards, its child users do. can be the parent of another user. In terms of card usage, this relationship provides a certain amount of control to the parent account over the child account. A parent user can monitor or restrict the user’s card usage. This ...