> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://devdocs.xbox.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Update Character Statistics > Updates the values of the specified title-specific statistics for the specific character. By default, clients are not permitted to update statistics. Developers may override this setting in the Game Manager > Settings > API Features. ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | APINotEnabledForGameClientAccess | 1082 | | CharacterNotFound | 1135 | | InvalidCharacterStatistics | 1138 | | ProductDisabledForTitle | 1609 | ## OpenAPI ````yaml post /Client/UpdateCharacterStatistics openapi: 3.0.0 info: version: '260922' title: PlayFab Client API description: >- APIs which provide the full range of PlayFab features available to the client - authentication, account and data management, inventory, friends, matchmaking, reporting, and platform-specific functionality termsOfService: https://playfab.com/terms/ contact: url: https://community.playfab.com/index.html license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://github.com/PlayFab/API_Specs/blob/master/LICENSE servers: - url: https://{titleId}.playfabapi.com description: PlayFab title endpoint variables: titleId: default: your_title_id description: Your PlayFab title ID (hex). security: [] tags: - name: Account Management description: Account Management APIs - name: Advertising description: Advertising APIs - name: Analytics description: Analytics APIs - name: Authentication description: Authentication APIs - name: Character Data description: Character Data APIs - name: Characters description: Characters APIs - name: Content description: Content Service APIs - name: Friend List Management description: Friend List Management APIs - name: Matchmaking description: Matchmaking APIs - name: Platform Specific Methods description: Platform Specific Methods APIs - name: Player Data Management description: Player Data Management APIs - name: Player Item Management description: Player Item Management APIs - name: PlayStream description: PlayStream Management APIs - name: Server-Side Cloud Script description: Server-Side Cloud Script APIs - name: Shared Group Data description: Shared Group Data APIs - name: Title-Wide Data Management description: Title-Wide Data Management APIs - name: Trading description: Trading Management APIs paths: /Client/UpdateCharacterStatistics: post: tags: - Characters summary: Update Character Statistics description: > Updates the values of the specified title-specific statistics for the specific character. By default, clients are not permitted to update statistics. Developers may override this setting in the Game Manager > Settings > API Features. ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | APINotEnabledForGameClientAccess | 1082 | | CharacterNotFound | 1135 | | InvalidCharacterStatistics | 1138 | | ProductDisabledForTitle | 1609 | operationId: UpdateCharacterStatistics requestBody: content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateCharacterStatisticsRequest' description: >- Enable this option with the 'Allow Client to Post Player Statistics' option in PlayFab GameManager for your title. However, this is not best practice, as this data will no longer be safely controlled by the server. This operation is additive. Character Statistics not currently defined will be added, while those already defined will be updated with the given values. All other user statistics will remain unchanged. Character statistics are used by the character-leaderboard apis, and accessible for custom game-logic. responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/UpdateCharacterStatisticsResult' '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/ApiErrorWrapper' security: - SessionTicket: [] components: schemas: UpdateCharacterStatisticsRequest: description: >- Enable this option with the 'Allow Client to Post Player Statistics' option in PlayFab GameManager for your title. However, this is not best practice, as this data will no longer be safely controlled by the server. This operation is additive. Character Statistics not currently defined will be added, while those already defined will be updated with the given values. All other user statistics will remain unchanged. Character statistics are used by the character-leaderboard apis, and accessible for custom game-logic. type: object properties: CharacterId: description: Unique PlayFab assigned ID for a specific character owned by a user type: string CharacterStatistics: description: >- Statistics to be updated with the provided values, in the Key(string), Value(int) pattern. type: object x-actualtype: int32 CustomTags: description: >- The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.). type: object required: - CharacterId example: CharacterId: '98765432' CharacterStatistics: Headshots: 18 Kills: 47 UpdateCharacterStatisticsResult: type: object properties: {} ApiErrorWrapper: description: The basic wrapper around every failed API response type: object properties: code: description: Numerical HTTP code type: integer status: description: String HTTP code type: string error: description: Playfab error code type: string errorCode: description: Numerical PlayFab error code type: integer errorMessage: description: Description for the PlayFab errorCode type: string errorDetails: description: Detailed description of individual issues with the request object type: object required: - code - errorCode responses: UpdateCharacterStatisticsResult: description: '' content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: code: type: integer description: >- The Http status code. If X-ReportErrorAsSuccess header is set to true, this will report the actual http error code. status: type: string description: The Http status code as a string. data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateCharacterStatisticsResult' ApiErrorWrapper: description: This is the outer wrapper for all responses with errors content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorWrapper' securitySchemes: SessionTicket: type: apiKey in: header name: X-Authorization description: >- This API requires a client session ticket, available from any Client Login function. ```` ## Related topics - [Update Character Statistics](/api-reference/characters/update-character-statistics.md) - [Profile Writes Meter API Description](/services/playfab/pricing/meters/profile-writes.md) - [character_statistic_changed](/services/playfab/api-references/events/Leaderboards/character-statistic-changed.md) - [character_statistic_deleted](/services/playfab/api-references/events/Leaderboards/character-statistic-deleted.md) - [Get Character Statistics](/services/playfab/api-references/rest/server/characters/get-character-statistics.md)