Zoho Books API - Returned Terminated because API Call is taking too long to respond
Zoho, We have been heavy Zoho Books users for 6+ years. We run thousand of API calls/day to Zoho Books, many of them through Zoho Flow. We are continuing to see a degraded experience with your API. In particular, we are sending API requests to create
Finding Credit Notes based on invoice number in the API
In the api, Is there a way to find all the Creditnotes associated with an invoice? I cant find anything in the documentation. I can use the "search_text" parameter, but it's not quite ideal. If I look up invoice 34, it will show me the credit notes for
Attachments on Invoices
Hey Everyone, I was looking at the API information for Zoho Books. I am working on software that transfers invoices from my POS and uploads them to Zoho Books. Ideally, it transfers a pdf and attaches it to the invoice, and will delete old invoices, if
Managing Petty Cash in ZOHO Expenses
Hello, Is there anyway to make all the Account Types In Chart of Account to be available in the ZOHO Expenses under Categories as only "Expenses" are available as of now. which is correct. But my concern is to maintain the complete petty cash in ZOHO EXPENSE and each replenishment means a new Expense Report, but due to unavailable accounts/categories in ZOHO Expenses, I'm unable to do this. Please advise.
Notification when Invoice email is opened and/or links clicked by customer?
Since the only way to know when an invoice email has been opened in Zoho Books is by going into the application and hovering over the mail icon in the Invoices section on Zoho Books, my other users never know when it has been viewed. I've played with
How to send an invoice by email with API ?
Hello, I'm trying to send an invoice by email with the API but I always get this error : { "code": 57, "message": "You are not authorized to perform this operation" } This is my request : https://www.zohoapis.com/books/v3/invoices/{invoiceId}/email?organization_id={organizationId}
Need to capture user input from custom function
Hi, On click of a custom button, is there any way we can ask for user input. I am planning to capture coupon code when sales order is created and store in custom field.
e-invoice
how can I integrate with the portal of e-invoice in Egypt
Generate Automatic email after Quote is e-signed in Books
I am trying to figure out a way to have an automatic email generated and sent to a customer once the e-sign a quote in Books. I am not sure if this is done in Flow, and if so, which trigger should be used. Can I achieve this in Books?
Stopping a Sales Order from being created when a estimate already has one associated with it.
Is there any way, when using the system defined buttons in Books/CRM finance. To halt the creation of a sales order if a sales order has already been created? We are having issues with our staff creating duplicate sales orders in the system. We have had
Function #31: Auto-populate warranty expiry date of items in invoices
Hello everyone, and welcome back to our series! Warranties play a vital role in influencing a customer's decision to buy a product. They represent a guarantee from the manufacturer or seller that the product will meet specific standards of quality and
Trigger an automation when Stock on Hand changes
We need to run a custom function when the stock level of an item changes - specifically when it goes out of stock or comes into stock, but it wouldn't matter if it was triggered by any change. At the moment, it's triggered when any field in the item is
Push Notificatication syntax
Dear team, Using deluge can you please tell me how can I notify my accounts team that an new invoice has been raised? I dont mind push notification or Email. The syntax what i found on net is pushNotification[to : <email_address>message : <your_message>]
Get the invoice detail through the API
Good day. I have a problem regarding the bills module. There are bills that are taxed depending on the country and there are cases in which taxes are not applied. The problem is that when making a call with the "bill_number" parameter it returns the basic
REMOVE FIELD VALUE IN BOOK USING DELUGE
I have a custom script that updates a custom field in books based on a set a rules. But with the way rest api works, I cannot see a custom field if it doesn't have any data in it. Therefore my work around was to set a default value and update later. The
How to restrict the fields in Zoho Books without validation rule?
Hello Team, In Item modules we have two fields 1.Package in Count ,2.Package in Kg. In this cases we need to restrict the user for they gives values for any one field .Package value will be in "Count" or "Kg". Is this possible? We already tried with custom
Format Books item text via API creation
Im creating estimates with the API, is it possible to format the text of the items in the Quote?
Function #59: Copy text from customer-level custom field to Terms & Conditions in quotes
Hello everyone, greetings of the day! Today's focus is on addressing scenarios where each customer requires unique terms and conditions. For example, when dealing with international customers, it may be necessary to present the terms and conditions in
Function #18: Associate invoice templates automatically based on customer language
For businesses dealing with a diverse linguistic clientele, it becomes crucial to send out invoices in the customer's preferred language to ensure effective communication. This requirement can be handled in Zoho Books by creating invoice templates in
Using Address Other Than Default When Creating Estimate Through API
Hello, I am making a Creator app that passes information into Books and creates an estimate. Everything is working except this one thing: No matter what value I pass for my shipping address, the organization's default shipping address is placed on the
Banking feed delay
There is a long delay between money coming into my bank and the time it takes ZoHo to fetch that feed. Support informed me that there is a 3 day delay to prevent duplication (although it seems to take longer). This delay is infuriating for me. often we are waiting 3-5 days for a bank transfer then a further 3 days just to match the payment to an invoice. So we are often matching payment a working week late. I have found myself reverting to manual methods as ZoHo is painfully slow at tracking this.
Display attachment(s) in client portal and emails
I need to set this via the api but can't find any documentation on it. I have tried "can_send_in_email" but this doesn't seem to work, a clue please guys ? var updateArray= { "customer_id": InvDetails.custID, "invoice_number": InvDetails.InvNumber, "template_id"
ZohoBooks WhatsApp Integration - 160,000% markup?
We have configured the WhatsApp integration on ZohoBooks and utilised 10 credits priced at £16.00. Upon further examination, I found Meta charges $0.015 per conversation, resulting in roughly a 160,000% markup from Zoho. Is this correct, or am I misunderstanding
Can someone please confirm the Invoice API works to get these fields?
I am following the API documentation (https://www.zoho.com/books/api/v3/invoices/#get-an-invoice) to write a custom function. I am able to get a lot of fields but having a problem with the following two: invoice.get("payment_made");//returning null but
Fetch invoice data from zoho books to zoho creator form
Hi, I have made commission calculator application in zoho creator in which I calculate commission based on amount of zoho invoice for sales persons. I want to fetch invoices from zoho books through deluge task in to zoho creator when user submits date
Custom Function CF Field Update
I'm new to Zoho and Deluge, so please forgive my naivety. I'm trying to create a customer function which updates two custom fields on an inventory item. The code runs fine, and the info response show the correct value, however the fields in the items
Zoho books API Authentication
I Have created self client with below Scope ZohoCRM.modules.ALL,ZohoCRM.settings.ALL,ZohoBooks.fullaccess.ALL,ZohoCRM.change_owner.CREATE And also i generated Auth token using. https://accounts.zoho.in/oauth/v2/token? I am able to access all ZOHo CRM
Migration from Reckon Accounts Hosted (QuickBooks engine) to Zoho Books
Hi Everyone I want to move to Zoho Finance from Reckon Accounts Hosted as I have a lot of other things happening in Zoho One and it seems crazy not moving. (Reckon has a QuickBooks back end) I really would like to extract all the data from Reckon, especially
Email Communications on Invoices via API Checkbox (Automatic Email Reminders)
We have a script that creates an invoice in Books from CRM when a deal reaches a specific stage. When that invoice is created we need to ensure the check box is checked on the Email Communications section of the invoice. The purpose of this is so the
ZohoBooks API issue for creating an estimate
It looks like the current ZohoBooks API for creating an estimate, as documented at https://www.zoho.com/books/api/v3/estimates/#create-an-estimate, has some bugs or issues, as follows: It's for a UK-based business. Using the url='https://books.zoho.com/api/v3/estimates'
Invoice Reminders via API
Hi, I’d like to use the Zoho Books API to send emails to my customers, but not using the invoice reminder function. Instead, I want to use the “Email Invoice” function in the API. However, the “Email Invoice” function doesn’t seem to allow multiple invoices
Retrieving Payment Links for Existing Invoices in Zoho Books API
Hi, I'm trying to find a way to retrieve the payment link for existing invoices in my Zoho Books account using the Zoho Books API. While the API offers functionalities to obtain invoice details through various parameters, I haven't been able to locate
How to do the base conversion of currency in Zoho Books by using API
Hello Team, If there is an API call available, we must use it to update the currency value on a daily basis. Thanks & Regards, Thisai Moorthy.
Zoho Integration with Stripe Payment Gateway
I have done the Stripe integration as one of the Payment Gateways. however, Under my Stripe account, I have 2 sub-accounts are created which both are belong to the same company. How can I connect both Stripe sub-accounts to Zoho?
POST invoice vs. CRM ID
Hi, we're using Zoho CRM synched with Zoho Books. Now I want to do a simple POST call to create an invoice. First i tried to use the account id from zoho crm as the customer_id in the POST call, but it works only for a few customers. For the others I
bug api ?
Hi When I use the API to do any of the following request I keep getting 'The request could not be authenticated as the authentication value you entered is invalid. Enter a valid authentication value and try again.' Mark an estimate as accepted Mark an
Function 33#: Associate invoice templates automatically based on customer address
When a business deals with customers across various countries, there may arise a need to have different templates applied which caters to the customer's country specific billing requirements. While we do allow users to associate the required templates
I need help in writing deluge script for creating Invoices for all customers with the same item type in Zoho books.
Please help. I have at least 400 customers with same item type.
Update status of Sales order created with ignore_auto_number_generation=true via API not working
Hi, when I try update status of sales order which was created with ignore_auto_number_generation=true https://www.zohoapis.com/books/v3/salesorders/{custom_order_id}/status/confirmed?organization_id=xxxxxx I always get "code":1002,"message":"Sales Order
Having issues with new API Url
Hello, I've been using Zoho Books API for 2 years. Today, I received a notification from Zoho stating that the API Base URL has changed from https://books.zoho.com/api/v3/ to https://zohoapis.com/books/v3/. After updating my system, I encountered issues
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