# PUT Attach a colour image

Takes the raster image of a staged upload and puts it in one of the colour's three image slots, returning the colour with that slot's `*_url` pointing at the new file. Requires `customisers:write` and an `Idempotency-Key`. Create the upload first with `POST /api/v3/uploads` — purpose `option_image` for `image` and `example_image`, `option_texture_image` for `texture_image` — send the bytes to the presigned target it returns, then send that upload's id here. An upload whose purpose is not the slot's answers 422 `upload_purpose_mismatch`. The upload is single use: attaching it a second time answers 409, and each slot needs its own upload. Only PNG, JPEG and WebP are accepted. SVG is refused when the upload is created, because the option-image path stores files as they arrive and does not sanitise them. The bytes are verified here, not at create: the object must exist, be within the purpose's cap, start with the magic bytes of the type it was declared as, and carry a readable image header. A file that fails leaves the upload `rejected` with the failure's code, and attaching it again replays that code — fix the file and create a new upload rather than retrying. Attaching to a slot that already holds an image replaces it. The previous file is deleted once the new one is committed, so any URL published for it stops resolving. Attaching to `texture_image` is what makes the `custom_texture` finish available: send the image here first, then set `texture` on the colour itself. The attach clears the customiser's cached storefront configuration and runs the advisory language sync. It never regenerates Shopify products, product images, or the product cache.

- Source URL: https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/v3-put-attach-a-colour-image/
- Markdown URL: https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/v3-put-attach-a-colour-image.md
- Group: Customiser colours
- Method: PUT
- Path: /api/v3/customisers/{customiser_id}/colours/{colour_id}/images/{image_slot}
- Auth: Bearer token
- Required scopes: `customisers:write`

## Path parameters

- customiser_id (string, required): The customiser id. Example: 1
- colour_id (string, required): The colour id. Example: 7
- image_slot (string, required): Which of the colour's images to write (closed set): the swatch a shopper picks from, the example photograph beside it, or the texture the custom_texture finish renders from. Example: image

## Body parameters

- upload_id (string, optional): No description provided.

## Request body example

```json
{
  "upload_id": "upl_9f2c4b7ad13e6058ba41cd"
}
```

## cURL example

```bash
curl https://web.signcustomiser.com/api/v3/customisers/1/colours/7/images/image \
  --request PUT \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "upload_id": "upl_9f2c4b7ad13e6058ba41cd"
}'
```

## Response examples

### 200 PUT 200 example 1

```json
{
  "data": {
    "object": "colour",
    "id": 7,
    "customiser_id": 42,
    "name": "Warm White",
    "description": null,
    "colour_type": "single",
    "hexcode": "#FFEEDD",
    "multi_colour_hexcodes": null,
    "texture": "flat",
    "min_width_cm": null,
    "min_height_cm": null,
    "min_size_rule": "any",
    "base_price": 0,
    "currency": "USD",
    "price_multiplier": 1,
    "price_multiplier_target": "base_letter_price",
    "sort_order": 1,
    "image_url": "https://cdn.example.com/files/2f1c9c0e-6a7b-4c1d-8e2f-3a4b5c6d7e8f.png",
    "example_image_url": null,
    "texture_image_url": null,
    "created_at": "2026-08-13T00:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-13T00:05:00Z"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://web.signcustomiser.com/api/v3/customisers/42/colours/7/images/image",
    "documentation": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/"
  },
  "meta": {
    "api_version": "v3",
    "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
  }
}
```

### 400 Missing idempotency key

```json
{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/missing_idempotency_key",
  "title": "Missing idempotency key",
  "status": 400,
  "code": "missing_idempotency_key",
  "detail": "Provide an Idempotency-Key header for this write.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}
```

### 401 Missing API key

```json
{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/missing_api_key",
  "title": "Missing API key",
  "status": 401,
  "code": "missing_api_key",
  "detail": "Provide a store API key as a bearer token.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}
```

### 403 Insufficient scope

```json
{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/insufficient_scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "code": "insufficient_scope",
  "detail": "This operation requires the customisers:write scope.",
  "required_scopes": [
    "customisers:write"
  ],
  "granted_scopes": [
    "customisers:read"
  ],
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}
```

### 404 Unknown colour, slot or upload

```json
{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/resource_not_found",
  "title": "Resource not found",
  "status": 404,
  "code": "resource_not_found",
  "detail": "The requested resource does not exist or does not belong to the authenticated store.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}
```

### 409 Upload already attached

```json
{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/upload_already_attached",
  "title": "Upload already attached",
  "status": 409,
  "code": "upload_already_attached",
  "detail": "This upload has already been attached to a file slot. Each upload is single use: create a new upload for each assignment.",
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}
```

### 422 Purpose mismatch

```json
{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/upload_purpose_mismatch",
  "title": "Upload purpose mismatch",
  "status": 422,
  "code": "upload_purpose_mismatch",
  "detail": "This slot accepts uploads created with purpose option_texture_image, and this upload was created with purpose option_image. Create a new upload with the slot's purpose.",
  "errors": [
    {
      "pointer": "/upload_id",
      "code": "upload_purpose_mismatch",
      "detail": "The upload's purpose is option_image.",
      "allowed_values": [
        "option_texture_image"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}
```

### 429 Option write budget exhausted

```json
{
  "type": "https://www.signcustomiser.com/help/api/problems/rate_limited",
  "title": "Too many requests",
  "status": 429,
  "code": "rate_limited",
  "detail": "You have exceeded the request limit for this API key.",
  "retry_after": 37,
  "request_id": "req_01jz9x2k7c8f3m5n6p7q8r9s0t"
}
```