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services.update_price

Change what a service costs, at one vehicle size or overall
WritesSensitiveWrite budget

REST

Shipping
POST /api/v1/services/update_price

MCP tool

Live
services.update_price

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

Operating contract

PERFORMS EXACTLY ONE KIND OF CHANGE PER CALL, selected by which parameter you provide: base_price for a flat, per-square-foot or per-hour service, or tiers for a tiered one. Sending the wrong one for the service's model is refused rather than guessed at.

THIS CHANGES A LIVE PRICE. It is what a customer is quoted on the booking page from the moment it saves, and there is no draft state and no approval step between this call and that page. Read the current price with services.get or services.tiers first and say what you are changing it from.

For a tiered service, ONLY the sizes you name are touched. The others keep the prices they had, which is what makes 'put the truck price up' safe to do on its own.

A by-quote (custom) service is refused: it has no set price to change, and the price for one is agreed on the quote itself.

Existing quotes, jobs and invoices are NOT re-priced. They snapshot what was agreed, which is the point — this changes what the NEXT customer is quoted.

IDEMPOTENCY IS none in the sense that matters: setting the same price twice is harmless, but there is no undo. The previous price is not kept anywhere a machine can read it back, so record it before you change it.

Who may call it

Permission
shop.manageThe caller must hold shop.manage 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
service_idrequiredstringuuid

The service to re-price, as returned by services.list or services.get.

base_pricenumber0–1000000

The new price, for a flat / per_sqft / per_hour service.

tiersobject[]

New prices for a tiered service. Only the sizes named here change.

tiers[].vehicle_typerequiredstring

One of: car, truck, suv, van, coupe, motorcycle, commercial, exotic
tiers[].pricerequirednumber0–1000000

Output

FieldTypeDescription
idstring

namestring

descriptionstring | null

categorystring | null

pricing_modelstring

base_pricenumber | null

duration_minutesnumber | null

cure_time_hoursnumber | null

activeboolean

bookableboolean

addonboolean

tax_exemptboolean

skustring | null

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/services/update_price \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERVICEVIN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"service_id":"9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"}'

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