When synchronous is requested with "yes" the response will be a 200 on success and will contain a valid JSON representiation of the new resource. If no or left off request a 202 "Accepted" will be given in a success case and this can be considered a success. Synchronous responses will be a little slower as the API will process the geo replication request and wait till the local copy has been written and can be read back berfore sending a response.