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Create a cardholder
An MCP tool from the Stripe API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.
Create a cardholder Creates a new Issuing Cardholder object that can be issued cards. [POST /v1/issuing/cardholders]
Name on the gateway: stripe_api__post_issuing_cardholders · may change things.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
billing required | object | The cardholder's billing address. |
company | object | Additional information about a company cardholder. |
email | string | The cardholder's email address. |
expand | array | Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded. |
individual | object | Additional information about an individual cardholder. |
metadata | object | Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful… |
name required | string | The cardholder's name. This will be printed on cards issued to them. The… |
phone_number | string | The cardholder's phone number. This will be transformed to E.164 if it is not… |
preferred_locales | array | The cardholder’s preferred locales (languages), ordered by preference. Locales… |
spending_controls | object | Rules that control spending across this cardholder's cards. Refer to our… |
status | active | inactive | Specifies whether to permit authorizations on this cardholder's cards.… |
type | company | individual | One of individual or company. See Choose a cardholder type for more details. |
How to call it
Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:
{
"name": "stripe_api__post_issuing_cardholders",
"arguments": {
"billing": "…",
"name": "…"
}
}Or connect the Stripe API server directly, which lists 606 tools including this one:
claude mcp add --transport http hj-stripe-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/stripe-api \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Try asking
Use the create a cardholder tool with billing set to ….