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Invoices

invoices.create_from_job

Raise a draft invoice for the work on one job
WritesWrite budget

REST

Shipping
POST /api/v1/invoices/create_from_job

MCP tool

Live
invoices.create_from_job

Exposed on: REST API · Shop MCP server · Claude connector · Dash (in-app copilot) · Zapier. Part of the Invoices domain.

Operating contract

Builds a DRAFT bill from what the job actually carries — its priced lines, its change orders, its order discount and the shop's default tax rate. Nothing is sent and nothing is owed until invoices.issue.

ONE INVOICE PER JOB. Calling this on a job that already has a bill hands back the existing one with created: false, rather than raising a second. That makes it safe to retry and safe to call when you are not sure.

A booking DEPOSIT invoice on the job is not the job's bill and never satisfies that guard — the deposit is credited onto the real invoice instead.

Refuses when the job has no customer to bill, and refuses when it carries no priced work: an invoice for nothing is not a useful draft, it is a bill somebody has to remember to delete.

For a bill from an accepted quote use invoices.create_from_quote instead — that path snapshots the quote's own agreed totals rather than re-pricing the work.

Who may call it

Permission
invoices.accessThe caller must hold Invoices at the ACT level. A read-only dashboard grant on the same section is refused.
Plan
Every planNo plan gate. Available on every Service VIN plan.
Retries
naturalNaturally idempotent — running it twice leaves the same world as running it once. A retrying integration needs no key.
Rate class
writeCounted against the write budget, which is tighter than a read.

Input

FieldTypeDescription
job_idrequiredstringuuid

The job to bill, as returned by jobs.list or jobs.get.

Output

FieldTypeDescription
invoice_idstring

createdboolean

Examples

Built from this capability's own schema — required fields and the ones carrying a default, and nothing invented. Paste one and it validates.

curl
export SERVICEVIN_API_KEY=svk_live_…

curl -X POST https://www.servicevin.com/api/v1/invoices/create_from_job \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERVICEVIN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"job_id":"9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"}'

TypeScript (fetch)
const res = await fetch("https://www.servicevin.com/api/v1/invoices/create_from_job", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SERVICEVIN_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "job_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"
  }),
});

// Success and failure are both envelopes. Switch on error.code, never
// on error.message — the codes are stable, the messages are for people.
const payload = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(payload.error.code);
const data = payload.data;

Python (requests)
import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://www.servicevin.com/api/v1/invoices/create_from_job",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SERVICEVIN_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "job_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"
},
    timeout=30,
)
payload = res.json()
if not res.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(payload["error"]["code"])
data = payload["data"]

MCP tools/call — https://www.servicevin.com/api/mcp
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "invoices.create_from_job",
    "arguments": {
      "job_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"
    }
  }
}

Refusals

The four gates run in this order on every surface, and the order is not arbitrary — see Authentication.

StatusCodeWhen
404not_foundThe id is unknown, or the feature is not enabled for this account. Deliberately the same answer for both.
403forbiddenThis login does not hold invoices.access.
403insufficient_scopeThe credential is read-only and this capability writes.
422validation_errorAn argument was wrong. The message names the field.
429rate_limitedToo many write calls. Back off and retry.
500internal_errorSomething failed on our side. Nothing was changed.