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Invoices

invoices.create_from_quote

Raise an invoice from an accepted quote's agreed totals
WritesWrite budget

REST

Shipping
POST /api/v1/invoices/create_from_quote

MCP tool

Live
invoices.create_from_quote

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

Operating contract

Turns an ACCEPTED quote into a bill, snapshotting the totals the customer actually agreed to rather than re-pricing anything. This is the same pipeline the automatic accept path runs, so a converted quote and an auto-billed one produce the same invoice.

ONE INVOICE PER QUOTE. Calling it twice hands back the invoice that already exists rather than raising a second, which is what makes a retry harmless.

Refuses when the quote is not accepted. Accepting is quotes.set_status, and it belongs to the customer's decision rather than to this call — do not accept a quote in order to bill it.

The result is a DRAFT. invoices.issue is what makes it owed, and invoices.send is what puts it in front of the customer.

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
quote_idrequiredstringuuid

The accepted quote to bill, as returned by quotes.list or quotes.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_quote \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERVICEVIN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"quote_id":"9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"}'

TypeScript (fetch)
const res = await fetch("https://www.servicevin.com/api/v1/invoices/create_from_quote", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SERVICEVIN_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "quote_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_quote",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SERVICEVIN_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "quote_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_quote",
    "arguments": {
      "quote_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.