---
title: "Reveal not allowed — Anis Developers"
description: "This card’s codes cannot be shown in its current state."
url: https://developers.anis.ly/errors/reveal-not-allowed/
language: en
---

> Every page of this documentation: https://developers.anis.ly/llms.txt

[Error codes](https://developers.anis.ly/errors.md) · Revealing cards

# Reveal not allowed

- **Code:** `reveal_not_allowed`
- **Status:** 409
- **If this was an order:** Never returned when buying
- **Send it again unchanged?** No — change something first
- **.NET SDK:** `AuthorizationException`

## What it means

This card’s codes cannot be shown in its current state.

## What to do

- Do not retry until you know the card’s state has changed. Contact Anis with the request id if you think it should be revealable.

## Where you can meet it

- POST [Reveal a card](https://developers.anis.ly/reference/reveal-card.md) `/v1/wallets/{walletId}/cards/{soldCardId}/reveal`
- POST [Reveal an invoice](https://developers.anis.ly/reference/reveal-invoice.md) `/v1/wallets/{walletId}/invoices/{invoiceId}/cards/reveal`

## Example

The body of the refusal. Its `type` is the address of this page.

```
{
  "type": "https://developers.anis.ly/errors/reveal-not-allowed",
  "title": "Reveal not allowed",
  "status": 409,
  "code": "reveal_not_allowed",
  "requestId": "01J9R2K8T4V6XQ0M3B7C5D9E1F"
}
```