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Create Bill with Quickbooks API

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Getting Started

Create a workflow to Create Bill with the Quickbooks API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

  1. Configure the Create Bill action
    1. Connect your Quickbooks account
    2. Configure vendor_ref_value
    3. Configure line_items
    4. Optional- Configure vendor_ref_name
    5. Optional- Configure currency_ref_value
    6. Optional- Configure currency_ref_name
    7. Optional- Configure minorversion
  2. Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
  3. Deploy the workflow
  4. Send a test event to validate your setup
  5. Turn on the trigger

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Details

This is a pre-built, open source component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Bill on Quickbooks
Description:Creates a bill.
Version:0.1.1
Key:quickbooks-create-bill

Code

// legacy_hash_id: a_l0i8p2
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  key: "quickbooks-create-bill",
  name: "Create Bill",
  description: "Creates a bill.",
  version: "0.1.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    quickbooks: {
      type: "app",
      app: "quickbooks",
    },
    vendor_ref_value: {
      type: "string",
      description: "Reference to the vendor for this transaction. Query the Vendor name list resource to determine the appropriate Vendor object for this reference. Use Vendor.Id from that object for `VendorRef.value`.",
    },
    line_items: {
      type: "any",
      description: "Individual line items of a transaction. Valid Line types include: ItemBasedExpenseLine` and `AccountBasedExpenseLine`. One minimum line item required for the request to succeed.",
    },
    vendor_ref_name: {
      type: "string",
      description: "Reference to the vendor for this transaction. Query the Vendor name list resource to determine the appropriate Vendor object for this reference. Use `Vendor.Name` from that object for `VendorRef.name`.",
      optional: true,
    },
    currency_ref_value: {
      type: "string",
      description: "A three letter string representing the ISO 4217 code for the currency. For example, `USD`, `AUD`, `EUR`, and so on. This must be defined if multicurrency is enabled for the company.\nMulticurrency is enabled for the company if `Preferences.MultiCurrencyEnabled` is set to `true`. Read more about multicurrency support [here](https://developer.intuit.com/docs?RedirectID=MultCurrencies). Required if multicurrency is enabled for the company.",
      optional: true,
    },
    currency_ref_name: {
      type: "object",
      description: "The full name of the currency.",
      optional: true,
    },
    minorversion: {
      type: "string",
      description: "Use the minorversion query parameter in REST API requests to access a version of the API other than the generally available version. For example, to invoke minor version 1 of the JournalEntry entity, issue the following request:\n`https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/<realmId>/journalentry/entityId?minorversion=1`",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
  // See Quickbooks API docs at: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/bill#create-a-bill

    if (!this.vendor_ref_value || !this.line_items) {
      throw new Error("Must provide vendor_ref_value, and line_items parameters.");
    }

    return await axios($, {
      method: "post",
      url: `https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/${this.quickbooks.$auth.company_id}/bill`,
      headers: {
        "Authorization": `Bearer ${this.quickbooks.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
        "accept": "application/json",
        "content-type": "application/json",
      },
      data: {
        VendorRef: {
          value: this.vendor_ref_value,
          name: this.vendor_ref_name,
        },
        Line: this.line_items,
        CurrencyRef: {
          value: this.currency_ref_value,
          name: this.currency_ref_name,
        },
      },
      params: {
        minorversion: this.minorversion,
      },
    });
  },
};

Configuration

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.
LabelPropTypeDescription
QuickbooksquickbooksappThis component uses the Quickbooks app.
vendor_ref_valuestring

Reference to the vendor for this transaction. Query the Vendor name list resource to determine the appropriate Vendor object for this reference. Use Vendor.Id from that object for VendorRef.value.

line_itemsany

Individual line items of a transaction. Valid Line types include: ItemBasedExpenseLineandAccountBasedExpenseLine`. One minimum line item required for the request to succeed.

vendor_ref_namestring

Reference to the vendor for this transaction. Query the Vendor name list resource to determine the appropriate Vendor object for this reference. Use Vendor.Name from that object for VendorRef.name.

currency_ref_valuestring

A three letter string representing the ISO 4217 code for the currency. For example, USD, AUD, EUR, and so on. This must be defined if multicurrency is enabled for the company.
Multicurrency is enabled for the company if Preferences.MultiCurrencyEnabled is set to true. Read more about multicurrency support here. Required if multicurrency is enabled for the company.

currency_ref_nameobject

The full name of the currency.

minorversionstring

Use the minorversion query parameter in REST API requests to access a version of the API other than the generally available version. For example, to invoke minor version 1 of the JournalEntry entity, issue the following request:
https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/<realmId>/journalentry/entityId?minorversion=1

Authentication

Quickbooks uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Quickbooks account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Quickbooks and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Quickbooks API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

com.intuit.quickbooks.accounting

About Quickbooks

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