---
title: "Add Funds To Insurance"
method: PATCH
path: "/v1/insurance/shipsurance/add_funds"
tags: ["insurance"]
---

# Add Funds To Insurance

`PATCH /v1/insurance/shipsurance/add_funds`

You may need to auto fund your account from time to time. For example, if you don't normally ship items over $100,
and may want to add funds to insurance rather than keeping the account funded.

## Request body

- AddFundsToInsuranceRequestBody — A monetary value, such as the price of a shipping label, the insured value of a package, or an account balance.
  - `currency` string, required — The currencies that are supported by ShipEngine are the ones that specified by ISO 4217: https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html
  - `amount` number, required — The monetary amount, in the specified currency.

## Response `200`

The request was a success.

- AddFundsToInsuranceResponseBody — A monetary value, such as the price of a shipping label, the insured value of a package, or an account balance.
  - `currency` string, required — The currencies that are supported by ShipEngine are the ones that specified by ISO 4217: https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html
  - `amount` number, required — The monetary amount, in the specified currency.

## Other responses

- `400` — The request contained errors.
- `500` — An error occurred on ShipEngine's side. > This error will automatically be reported to our engineers.

---

[API](https://skmtc.net/shipengine/apis/shipengine-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/shipengine/apis/shipengine-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/shipengine/shipengine-api/revisions/6af91511d87e/schema)