Create

---

POST /items.json

Creates a new item.

Example Request

curl

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://account_name.app.invoicexpress.com/items.json?api_key=YOUR%20API%20KEY%20HERE' \
  --header 'accept: application/json' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"item":{"name":"Item name","description":"Item description","unit_price":"9.99","unit":"service","tax":{"name":"IVA23"}}}'

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://account_name.app.invoicexpress.com/items.json?api_key=YOUR%20API%20KEY%20HERE")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"item\":{\"name\":\"Item name\",\"description\":\"Item description\",\"unit_price\":\"9.99\",\"unit\":\"service\",\"tax\":{\"name\":\"IVA23\"}}}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Node

var http = require("https");

var options = {
  "method": "POST",
  "hostname": "account_name.app.invoicexpress.com",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/items.json?api_key=YOUR%20API%20KEY%20HERE",
  "headers": {
    "accept": "application/json",
    "content-type": "application/json"
  }
};

var req = http.request(options, function (res) {
  var chunks = [];

  res.on("data", function (chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on("end", function () {
    var body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

req.write(JSON.stringify({ item:
   { name: 'Item name',
     description: 'Item description',
     unit_price: '9.99',
     unit: 'service',
     tax: { name: 'IVA23' } } }));
req.end();

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("account_name.app.invoicexpress.com")

payload = "{\"item\":{\"name\":\"Item name\",\"description\":\"Item description\",\"unit_price\":\"9.99\",\"unit\":\"service\",\"tax\":{\"name\":\"IVA23\"}}}"

headers = {
    'accept': "application/json",
    'content-type': "application/json"
    }

conn.request("POST", "/items.json?api_key=YOUR%20API%20KEY%20HERE", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://account_name.app.invoicexpress.com/items.json?api_key=YOUR%20API%20KEY%20HERE",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\"item\":{\"name\":\"Item name\",\"description\":\"Item description\",\"unit_price\":\"9.99\",\"unit\":\"service\",\"tax\":{\"name\":\"IVA23\"}}}",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "accept: application/json",
    "content-type: application/json"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

Go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

    url := "https://account_name.app.invoicexpress.com/items.json?api_key=YOUR%20API%20KEY%20HERE"

    payload := strings.NewReader("{\"item\":{\"name\":\"Item name\",\"description\":\"Item description\",\"unit_price\":\"9.99\",\"unit\":\"service\",\"tax\":{\"name\":\"IVA23\"}}}")

    req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

    req.Header.Add("accept", "application/json")
    req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")

    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

    fmt.Println(res)
    fmt.Println(string(body))

}

Request Body

Name	Type	Required	Description
item	Object	Required	Item data to be created
name	String	Required	Name of the item. Must be unique.
description	String	Required	Item’s description.
unit_price	Number	Required	Item’s unit price. Must be a number equal or greater than 0.0.
unit	String		The item unit of measure.
tax	Object		The tax applied to the item line. If not present the default tax is applied to the item.
name	String		The tax name to be used on this item line. If not found the default tax is applied to the line item.

Example Request Body

{
  "item": {
    "name": "Item name",
    "description": "Item description",
    "unit_price": "9.99",
    "unit": "service",
    "tax": {
      "name": "IVA23"
    }
  }
}

Responses

201	SUCCESS	Items Get
401	ACCESS DENIED The API Key parameter is missing or is incorrectly entered.	(Empty Response)
422	UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY Some parameters were incorrect.	(Empty Response)

Example Success Body Response

{
  "item": {
    "id": 402321,
    "name": "Medium",
    "description": "foo",
    "unit_price": 16.2602,
    "unit": "service",
    "tax": {
      "name": "IVA23",
      "value": 23,
      "comment": "tax value:23.0%"
    }
  }
}