1. Community
Returning.AI
  • Getting Started
  • Users
    • User directory and provisioning
    • Get Users with Filters
      POST
    • Create New User
      POST
    • Get User Data
      POST
    • Manage User Account
      POST
    • Get User Milestones
      POST
    • Update User Data, Identifier, And Roles
      POST
    • Update User XP and Currency
      POST
  • Messaging
    • Agent messaging workflow
    • Get Messages
      GET
    • Send Message
      POST
    • Reply Message
      POST
    • React Message
      POST
    • Upload message images
      POST
  • Gamification
    • Leaderboards
      • Leaderboards
      • List leaderboards with pagination
      • Create a new leaderboard
      • Update an existing leaderboard
      • Get a single leaderboard by ID
      • Delete a leaderboard
    • Streaks & Mini Games
      • Mini-game State and History
      • List user streak logs
      • List mini-game logs by user email
      • Get current mini-game and streak state
      • Update user spin-wheel information
    • Referral
      • Referral Program Integration
      • Get referral programs
      • Get user's referral summary
    • Rolling Data
      • Get Daily Calculation Data
      • Get Rolling Calculation Data
    • Match Predictions
    • Get tier configuration
      GET
    • Get daily user XP and coin changes
      POST
    • Search user gamification logs
      POST
    • Get user activity stats
      POST
  • Rewards & Redemptions
    • Store catalog to redemptions
    • Update redemption order status or refund
    • List redemption orders by user email
    • List redemption statuses
    • Get redemption status by ID
    • List redemption orders by community
    • Create redemption order status
    • Get redemption order status history
  • Chart Analysis
    • Create Analysis
    • Get Analysis
    • Update Analysis
    • Delete Analysis
    • List Analyses
    • Append Drawings
  • Bulk Operations
    • Bulk user updates
    • List bulk update jobs
    • Get bulk update job status
    • Get bulk update job details
    • Bulk update users from CSV
    • Bulk update premium currency from CSV
  • Channels
    • Iframe
    • List integration channels
  • Events
    • Outgoing webhooks
      • Encryption
      • User Joins Server
      • User Visits server
      • New Message Posted Anywhere
      • New Message Posted To channel
      • Purchased Store Item
    • Incoming webhooks
      • API Keys & Encryption
      • Send message into channels
      • Update Custom User Fields
      • Update In-game currency
  • Widgets
    • Authenticated Widgets
    • Public widgets
    • Channels
    • Leaderboard
    • Milestone
    • Socials
    • Store
  • Community Analytics
    • Get Loyalty Overview
    • Get Phone Verification Contacts
  • Store
    • Store catalog
    • Purchase History
      • Update redemption instructions or voucher details
    • Categories
      • List Store categories
      • Create Store category
      • Get Store category by ID
      • Update Store category
      • Delete Store category
    • Products
      • List products
      • Update products in bulk
      • Create products in bulk
      • Create product with vouchers
      • Read product
      • Update product and append vouchers
      • Delete product
    • Redemption-transaction
      • Get redemption transaction detail
    • Get Store configuration
    • Update Store configuration
  • Community
    • Community directory and appearance
    • Appearance
      • Update community theme colors
      • Update community bot profile
      • Update community URL metadata
      • Update community name and URL
    • Community Users
      • Get community users
      • Get user
    • Create community
      POST
  • API Keys
    • API key lifecycle
    • Community API Keys
      • Create API key
      • Read API keys
      • Delete API key
      • Update API key
    • User API Keys
      • List user API keys
      • Create user API key
      • Update user API key
      • Delete user API key
      • Get current API key information
  • User Fields
    • User field definitions and history
    • User Field History
      • Get all user field histories in a community
      • Get user field histories for a specific field
      • Get user field histories for a specific user
      • Get user field histories of specific user field and user
      • Update A User Field Value
      • Deprecated Field-First History Write
      • Deprecated Field-First History Read
    • Get A User Field Definition
    • Update A User Field Definition
    • Create A User Field Definition
    • Delete A User Field Definition
    • List User Field Definitions
  • Legacy
    • Servers
      • Create server
      • List servers
      • Update server metadata
    • Bulk Operations
      • Bulk import users from CSV
    • Authentication
      • Secure Auth
      • Register user with password
      • Verify user email
      • Log in user with password
    • Badges
      • List badges
      • Create badge
      • Update badge
      • Delete badge
      • Remove badge from user
      • Award badge to user
    • Messaging
    • Roles & Permissions
      • List server roles
      • Create role
      • Update role
      • Delete role
      • List user roles
      • Add role to user
      • Remove role from user
    • Users
      • Get user
      • Upload user avatar
    • Channels
      • Create channel
      • Update channel
      • Delete channel
    • API Keys
      • List integration API keys
      • Create integration API key
      • Delete integration API key
      • Update integration API key
  1. Community

Create community

POST
/v1/communities

What this endpoint does#

This page documents POST /v1/communities. That create route is not mounted on https://api.returning.ai.
Do not use it to provision a broker community from an integration script. Community creation stays an internal/admin workflow until this gateway exposes it.
INFO
Replacement
There is no public create-community replacement on this host. Use the admin product to create a community, then call Get community users with a community API key.

Quick start#

Do not call this POST for integrations:
HTTP 404 Route not found error. detail: Cannot POST /apis/v1/communities. A body with secretKey returns the same 404.

Authentication and permission#

A valid community key does not mount this path. A fake x-community-creation-key header does not either.

Complete examples#

There is no success example on this gateway.

Success and readback#

No success response. After a community exists in admin, read members with community user list/get.

Errors and recovery#

StatusWhenRecovery
404 Cannot POST /apis/v1/communities/v1/communitiesStop. Create the community in admin.

Retry safety#

WARNING
Do not retry
Repeating this POST will not mount the route.

Gotchas#

Source may still describe a secretKey multipart create. That contract is not on this public gateway.
Appearance PUTs are a different surface and some of those /v1 paths are mounted.

Next steps#

Get community users
List members for an existing community ObjectId.

Request

Header Params

Body Params application/jsonRequired

Examples

Responses

🟢200OK
application/json
Request completed successfully.
Bodyapplication/json

🟢201Created
🟠400Bad Request
🟠401Unauthorized
🟠403Forbidden
🟠404Record Not Found
🟠409
🔴500Server Error
Request Request Example
Shell
JavaScript
Java
Swift
curl --location 'https://adss-production.returning.ai/apis/partner/v1/communities' \
--header 'x-community-creation-key: RAI-04-2026-CREATE-COMMUNITY-KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "name": "Demo Community",
    "userId": "1342",
    "description": "First test of the new endpoint",
    "alias": "demo"
}'
Response Response Example
200 - Example 1
{}
Modified at 2026-08-19 13:45:25
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