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Quotes

quotes.send

Text or email a quote to the customer for approval
WritesReaches the customerSensitiveSend budget

REST

Shipping
POST /api/v1/quotes/send

MCP tool

Live
quotes.send

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

Operating contract

SENDS TO THE CUSTOMER. This mints a share link and delivers it on the channels you name, in the shop's own template, branding and numbering. The customer receives it immediately.

CALL quotes.send_status FIRST. It tells you which channels are actually available and whether the quote itself is sendable — a quote that is accepted, declined, expired, or past its valid_until is refused here, and 'past its date' is fixable with quotes.extend_validity.

channels must be a non-empty subset of ['sms','email']. Naming a channel the customer cannot receive on is refused rather than silently dropped, because a caller that believes it texted somebody it did not will stop chasing them.

NOT A DRAFT AND NOT REVERSIBLE. There is no unsend. If you are not certain the shop wants this to go now, ask them first.

IDEMPOTENCY: pass a stable key from your own system and a retry after a timeout will not text the customer twice. A freshly generated key each call buys nothing — without a stable key, calling this twice sends twice.

The result reports delivery PER CHANNEL and always returns the link, so a shop can copy it if a channel bounced.

Who may call it

Permission
quotes.accessThe caller must hold Quotes 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
keyHonours an Idempotency-Key header. Pass a stable one and a retry replays the first answer instead of acting again.
Rate class
sendCounted against the send budget, the tightest one: what a runaway loop spends here is the shop's own sending reputation.

Input

FieldTypeDescription
quote_idrequiredstringuuid

The quote to send, as returned by quotes.list or quotes.get.

channelsrequiredstring[]

Which channels to send on. Check quotes.send_status first.

Output

FieldTypeDescription
okboolean

urlstring | null

messagestring | null

deliveredstring[]

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/quotes/send \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERVICEVIN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"quote_id":"9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20","channels":["sms"]}'

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

// 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/quotes/send",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SERVICEVIN_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "quote_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20",
    "channels": [
        "sms"
    ]
},
    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": "quotes.send",
    "arguments": {
      "quote_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20",
      "channels": [
        "sms"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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 quotes.access.
403insufficient_scopeThe credential is read-only and this capability writes.
422validation_errorAn argument was wrong. The message names the field.
429rate_limitedToo many send calls. Back off and retry.
500internal_errorSomething failed on our side. Nothing was changed.