# create

URL: /business/nouns/order/create · Id: `verb:Order.create` · Call: `await $.Order.create({ … })` (SDK) or the `do` tool at `https://api.sb/mcp`. Inputs says what to pass, Outputs what returns, When it waits who approves.

> Creates an Order.

Create makes a new [Order](/business/nouns/order) from the inputs below. It is inherited: every [Noun](/business/nouns/noun) has `get`, `list`, `create`, `update` and `delete`.

## Inputs
| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `total` | `money` | Yes | The amount charged. |
| `merchantOfRecord` | [Party](/business/nouns/party) | No | The Party that charges and books the revenue. |
| `outside` | `boolean` | No | Computed: true when its Customer shares no owner, Studio account, Agreement, or sibling chain with the Startup. |
| `lines` | `json` | No | Each Offer bought, its quantity, amount and the Party that charges for it; a Service line carries its own verdict. |
| `fulfillment` | `string` | No | Where a Service Order’s work stands between `paid` and `fulfilled`. |
| `payment` | `string` | No | `authorized` when the Quote is accepted; `captured` on the Event the Outcome Contract `earns` names. |
| `revisionsUsed` | `integer` | No | Revisions the Customer has asked for, counted against the Outcome Contract’s `revisions`. |
| `risk` | `number` | No | The payment’s fraud risk score from 0 to 99 at screening, as Stripe scored it. |
| `tax` | `money` | No | The sales tax, VAT or GST computed at placement for the buyer’s location and the Offer’s tax category. |
| `taxJurisdiction` | `string` | No | Where the tax is owed, such as `US-CA` or `EU-DE`, or `none` when no registration applies. |
| `brief` | `json` | No | The scope a Service Order bought, from its Quote request: sizes, inputs and turnaround. Intake checks the inputs against it. |
| `dueAt` | `datetime` | No | When a Service Order’s work is due; time waiting on the Customer moves it later. |
| `collectedBy` | `string` | No | The id of the venue that charged the buyer and pays the Startup; unset when the Startup’s own checkout collected. |
| `customer` | [Customer](/business/nouns/customer) | No | A Customer commits to one-time purchases as Orders. |

## Outputs
| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `order` | [Order](/business/nouns/order) | Yes | The Order. |

## Effects
- Emits `Order.created`.
- Two-way: `try`, `send`, `do`.

## Refuses when
| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | [Order.create](/business/nouns/order/create) |

## When it waits
| Gate | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Decision class | Low: two-way, nothing at stake |
| [Delay window](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/one-way-windows) | None: it runs once review passes. |
| Limit | The call [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) of the [Permission](/business/nouns/permission) it runs under. |
| Over the Limit | It waits `pending` for an [Approval](/business/nouns/approval) from the [Founder](/agents/founding/founder). Approved, it runs; refused, it ends `refused` with [`limit-exceeded`](/code/api/errors/limit-exceeded); unanswered by its deadline, it ends `canceled`. |

## Example

**Ask**

```text
Add an order to TutorLoop.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/tutorloop.com/orders \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"total":{"amount":60,"currency":"USD"}}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/tutorloop.com",
  "order": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/tutorloop.com/orders/order_1",
    "$type": "Order",
    "total": {
      "amount": 60,
      "currency": "USD"
    },
    "status": "placed"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/tutorloop.com/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Order.create",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/tutorloop.com/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

```ts
import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const order = await $.Order.create({ total: { amount: 60, currency: 'USD' } })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Order.create --json '{"total":{"amount":60,"currency":"USD"}}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Order.create({ total: { amount: 60, currency: 'USD' } })"
  }
}
```