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Create journal entry

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Use your app's API key as the username, and leave the password blank

Headers

Idempotency-Key
string

Makes a retry safe when you never got the answer to a call: a timeout, a dropped connection, a worker that crashed. Send a new key (a UUID, say) with each request you mean to make once, and the same key when you send that request again. A repeat with the key and the same method, path, query and body answers 201 with what the first call created, as it is now, marked Idempotent-Replayed: true, and queues nothing. The same key with a different request is a 422. A key belongs to your app (sandbox and production apps never share one), lasts as long as what it created, and is 1 to 255 printable ASCII characters.

Required string length: 1 - 255
Pattern: ^[\x20-\x7E]+$

Path Parameters

connection_id
string<uuid>
required

The connection (a customer's QuickBooks company file) this request is queued for.

Query Parameters

webhook_url
string<uri>

Where QuBe Sync POSTs the answered request (this same document with response_json filled in), signed with X-QUBE-Signature. Send one with every request: it is how answers are delivered. Optional only so a script can queue and look up links.self by hand. It must be an absolute http or https URL. It may not contain a username or password, and in production it may not point at localhost or a private, loopback or link-local address. A qube listen URL must be one of this app's.

Maximum string length: 2048

Body

application/json
currency_ref
object

A currency record defines how QuickBooks stores and displays a currency. Built-in currency name/code values are fixed; formatting and active status can vary by settings and workflow.

Choose at most one of: is_home_currency_adjustment, or the set (currency_ref, exchange_rate, is_amounts_entered_in_home_currency). Members of a set combine with each other, not with the other choices.

def_macro
string

def_macro lets you assign a reusable name to a returned txn_id or txn_line_id so later requests can reference it with useMacro. This feature requires SDK 2.0+.

exchange_rate
number

exchange_rate is the rate from this currency to the company’s home currency at AsOfDate. You can supply a rate when adding transactions, but QuickBooks does not provide rates through the SDK. If your home currency is USD and internet access is available, rates can be downloaded in the QuickBooks UI via Lists > Currency > Activities > Download Latest Exchange Rates.

Choose at most one of: is_home_currency_adjustment, or the set (currency_ref, exchange_rate, is_amounts_entered_in_home_currency). Members of a set combine with each other, not with the other choices.

external_guid
string

Allows for the attachment of a user defined GUID value.

include_ret_element
enum<string>[]
Available options:
CurrencyRef,
DataExtRet,
EditSequence,
ExchangeRate,
ExternalGUID,
IsAdjustment,
IsAmountsEnteredInHomeCurrency,
IsHomeCurrencyAdjustment,
JournalCreditLine,
JournalDebitLine,
ListID,
Memo,
OwnerID,
RefNumber,
TimeCreated,
TimeModified,
TxnDate,
TxnID,
TxnNumber
is_adjustment
boolean

When a change is an “adjustment,” the original information is retained, usually so an accountant can see the effects of the adjustment.

is_amounts_entered_in_home_currency
boolean

Flag that indicates the amount being entered is in the home currency.

Choose at most one of: is_home_currency_adjustment, or the set (currency_ref, exchange_rate, is_amounts_entered_in_home_currency). Members of a set combine with each other, not with the other choices.

is_home_currency_adjustment
boolean

Indicates whether the transaction is using a home currency or foreign currency.

Choose at most one of: is_home_currency_adjustment, or the set (currency_ref, exchange_rate, is_amounts_entered_in_home_currency). Members of a set combine with each other, not with the other choices.

journal_credit_line
object[]

If no amount is included in the first credit line (or debit line) of a journal entry in the QuickBooks user interface, then subsequent SDK queries on that JournalEntry object will fail XML validation.

At least one entry is required across journal_debit_line and journal_credit_line; they combine, any number of each. QuickBooks receives them in that order: every journal_debit_line, then every journal_credit_line.

journal_debit_line
object[]

If no amount is included in the first debit line (or credit line) of a journal entry in the QuickBooks user interface, then subsequent SDK queries on that JournalEntry object will fail XML validation.

At least one entry is required across journal_debit_line and journal_credit_line; they combine, any number of each. QuickBooks receives them in that order: every journal_debit_line, then every journal_credit_line.

memo
string

Additional information.

ref_number
string

ref_number is a user-managed transaction reference (for example, a check number). It can be edited and is not guaranteed to be globally unique. Some transaction types auto-populate ref_number when omitted, based on QuickBooks preferences and numbering state.

request_id
string

Your own label for the request, sent to QuickBooks as its qbXML requestID and echoed in the raw answer (response_xml); optional, since the answer's webhook already carries the request's id.

txn_date
string<date>

The date of the transaction. In some cases, if you leave txn_date out of an -Add message, QuickBooks will prefill txn_date with the date of the last-saved transaction of the same type.

Callbacks

POST
{$request.query.webhook_url}answered

Body

application/json

POSTed to webhook_url as JSON, signed with X-QUBE-Signature (t=<timestamp>,v1=<hex HMAC-SHA256 of "<timestamp>.<raw body>" with your app's webhook secret>).

app_id
string<uuid>
required

Your app's id.

app_name
string
required
error
object | null
required

Set when state is error, retryable, timed_out or discarded. error_type says where it failed: for a timed_out request it is timed_out, and for a discarded one discarded, unless the request was retryable when your app discarded it, which keeps the connection error that held it up. user_message is safe to show an end user; error_code is QuickBooks' own status code for a business error, hresult the Web Connector's for a connection/XML error; debug_message is for you.

id
string<uuid>
required

The request's id, as the 201 returned it. For an iterated query, every page carries the first page's id here.

page_request_id
string<uuid>
required

This page's own id. Equal to id except on later pages of an iterated query.

response_json
Success · object
required

QuBe Sync's summary of QuickBooks' answer. Only an Error severity from QuickBooks is status: "error" (and makes the request's state error), so a query that matched nothing is still success. A Warn severity is a success with warning beside it.

sandbox
boolean
required

Whether the app is a sandbox app.

state
enum<string>
required

response_received: QuickBooks accepted it; read response_json. error: it is over and QuBe Sync won't try again -- see error, and response_json.error for a QuickBooks business error; with error_type outcome_unknown a write may still have been applied, so look before sending it again. retryable: QuickBooks could not be reached and QuBe Sync keeps trying; show the customer error.user_message so they can fix it. timed_out: no answer came back -- the customer's computer lost its connection, or QuickBooks or the Web Connector was closed, mid-request. QuickBooks may still have applied it, so look before sending it again. discarded: your app discarded it before the Web Connector picked it up, so QuickBooks never got it. Both carry an error.

Available options:
response_received,
error,
retryable,
timed_out,
discarded
timestamp
integer
required

Unix seconds; the same t the signature covers.

iteration_state
enum<string>

continue: more pages will follow, each its own webhook. done: this was the last page. max_sandbox_iterations_reached: a sandbox app's page limit stopped the iteration.

Available options:
not_applicable,
continue,
done,
max_sandbox_iterations_reached

Present only with response_xml_omitted.

page
integer | null

The page number, when iterated.

response_xml
string | null

QuickBooks' raw qbXML answer. response_json is the same, summarized. One answer can be at most 4 MB as the Web Connector sends it, about 3 MB of qbXML; QuickBooks' answer over that isn't kept: this is null and error.error_type is response_too_large. A webhook whose body would be over 1 MB is sent without it: null, with response_xml_omitted true; fetch it from links.self.

response_xml_omitted
boolean

Present, and true, only when response_xml was left out to keep the body under 1 MB. response_json is still here; GET links.self for response_xml.

Response

2XX

Received. Anything else is retried with backoff for about 8 hours.

Response

Queued for the connection's Web Connector. Pass webhook_url and QuBe Sync POSTs the answer to it once QuickBooks has answered (see the answered callback: its own payload, not this document). links.self returns this document on demand, with response_json filled in.

data
object
required