Creating Bank Transfers

1

In the web app I am able to create a transfer from one of my bank accounts to another.

I was anticipating being able to do in the api this via a post to /bank_transactions but that endpoint seems read-only. Is there another way to achieve this?

Thanks

2

Hi there,

What you need to do is create a bank transaction explanation, and the underlying bank transactions will be created automatically if necessary.

https://dev.freeagent.com/docs/bank_transaction_explanations

So to create a transfer of £100 from account 1 to account 2 you’d post this

POST "https://api.freeagent.com/v2/bank_transaction_explanations"

{
  "bank_transaction_explanation": {
    "bank_account": "https://api.freeagent.com/v2/bank_accounts/1",
    "dated_on": "2017-02-09",
    "gross_value": "-100.00",
    "transfer_bank_account": "https://api.freeagent.com/v2/bank_accounts/2"
  }
}

That changes slightly if you’re explaining existing transactions, but from the nature of your question I’m guessing that’s not the case.

Hope that helps,
Paul.

3

That seems like what we’d need. Thanks