Raising an invoice via API - invoice item_type "no unit"

#1

Hi,

I want to raise an invoice via the API - the invoice item I am adding isn’t
represented by freeagent (we’re invoicing by number of users), so i want to
use “No Unit”. Now, I can do that in the web app, but the API won’t let me
use “No Unit”, I have to choose “Product”, which looks wrong in the invoice.

Is there any way round this, seems an odd limitation for the API.

Matt

#2

Hi Matt,

I’ve just checked and we seem to have missed that option from our
documentation, but it does work. The item_type should be set to “-no
unit-”, or omitted entirely and no unit will be assumed as the default.

{ “invoice”:
{
“contact”:“https://api.freeagent.com/v2/contacts/43”,
“dated_on”:“2014-11-24”,
“reference”:“004”,
“currency”:“GBP”,
“omit_header”:false,
“payment_terms_in_days”:5,
“invoice_items”:[
{
“description”:“Test InvoiceItem”,
“item_type”:"-no unit-",
“price”:“10.0”,
“quantity”:“10.0”
}
]
}
}

I’ll add that to our list of things to fix in the documentation.

Cheers,
Paul.On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 09:40:49 UTC, Matt Roberts wrote:

Hi,

I want to raise an invoice via the API - the invoice item I am adding
isn’t represented by freeagent (we’re invoicing by number of users), so i
want to use “No Unit”. Now, I can do that in the web app, but the API won’t
let me use “No Unit”, I have to choose “Product”, which looks wrong in the
invoice.

Is there any way round this, seems an odd limitation for the API.

Matt

#3

Thanks Paul.

I’m sure I tried leaving it blank, but I’ll do it again and see what I get.

MattOn Monday, 24 November 2014 12:49:13 UTC, Paul Smith wrote:

Hi Matt,

I’ve just checked and we seem to have missed that option from our
documentation, but it does work. The item_type should be set to “-no
unit-”, or omitted entirely and no unit will be assumed as the default.

{ “invoice”:
{
“contact”:“https://api.freeagent.com/v2/contacts/43”,
“dated_on”:“2014-11-24”,
“reference”:“004”,
“currency”:“GBP”,
“omit_header”:false,
“payment_terms_in_days”:5,
“invoice_items”:[
{
“description”:“Test InvoiceItem”,
“item_type”:"-no unit-",
“price”:“10.0”,
“quantity”:“10.0”
}
]
}
}

I’ll add that to our list of things to fix in the documentation.

Cheers,
Paul.

On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 09:40:49 UTC, Matt Roberts wrote:

Hi,

I want to raise an invoice via the API - the invoice item I am adding
isn’t represented by freeagent (we’re invoicing by number of users), so i
want to use “No Unit”. Now, I can do that in the web app, but the API won’t
let me use “No Unit”, I have to choose “Product”, which looks wrong in the
invoice.

Is there any way round this, seems an odd limitation for the API.

Matt