I’ve been working on a script that i’d like to add smart capture integration into. I can’t see the API definitions for smart capture so I assume that either i’m looking in the wrong place or they’ve not opened up the smart capture API yet?
Can anybody confirm if they’ve been able to interact with Smart Capture over the API?
T
No, this relates the to FreeAgent Smart Capture functionality to capture expense information using OCR etc using PDFs that have been uploaded.
Hi, thanks for the query.
I’m afraid you’re correct that we don’t currently expose external API endpoints for the Smart Capture functionality. It’s not in our immediate roadmap to do so, but we’ll let you know as and when that changes.
Wil
Hey Will. That’s quite frustrating considdering how good the rest of the API is.
When comparing to competators (Coming from QBO) having the extended functionality within Smart Captures is invaluable to small businesses trying to reduce overhead. My initial motion to ask this question is because there’s no means of forwarding attachments to have them imported via email (anymore?). The script works perfectly well apart from the smart capture functionality which would save hundreds of manhours managing bills and expenses.
There are 3rd party platforms out there that cost as much as a QBO subscription, so with no native support you’re sadly not going to get the customer transition from other platforms for invoices until this feature is natively implemented or available over the API.
I don’t want to have to use something like google vision cloud to complete all the OCR on my expenses / bills when the platform already has a perfectly capabile OCR tool built in.