# Limit routes: raise

URL: /code/api/limit/verbs · Id: `page:code/api/limit/verbs`

> The Limit Verbs raise as api.sb routes, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Limit](/business/nouns/limit), one group of [Limit routes](/code/api/limit).

### Limit.raise
Raise lifts a Limit after an Approval allows it, and the Action that waited on it proceeds. [Verb page](/business/nouns/limit/raise?interface=api).

```text
POST /{namespace}/limits/{limit}/raise
```

Path: `limit`. Body, as JSON: the other inputs. Emits [`Limit.raised`](/business/events/Limit.raised).

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) | Yes | The Limit to lift. |
| `to` | `json` | Yes | The new amount, count or rate. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) | Yes | The raised Limit. |

**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. | None. |
| The record is not in a state that allows this Verb, so the call is refused. | [`refused`](/code/api/errors/refused) | Read the record, run the Verb that moves it to an allowed state, then retry. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/limits/limit_UWHXYVKsJB/raise \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"to":{}}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "limit": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/limits/limit_UWHXYVKsJB",
    "$type": "Limit",
    "amount": {
      "amount": 29,
      "currency": "USD"
    },
    "count": 1
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Limit.raise",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```