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Expensify ACTION

Create Expense

Creates a new expense. See docs here
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • API key
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Expensify account once, then configure and run Create Expense from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "expensify-create-expense",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    expensify: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    employeeEmail: "Employee Email",
    currency: "Currency",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create Expense inputs
Property Type Description
employeeEmail Employee Email string
The expenses will be created in this account
Required
currency Currency string
The three-letter currency code of the expense. E.g. USD
Required
amount Amount integer
The amount of the expense, in cents. E.g. 2215 will be $22.15
Required
merchant Merchant string
The name of the expense's merchant
Required
created Created Date string
The date of the expense (format yyyy-mm-dd). E.g. 2022-07-12
Required
comment Comment string
An expense comment
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
expensify-create-expense
Version
0.0.7
App
Expensify
Authentication
API key
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes