Create and Update an Invoice

Overview

As we know, an invoice is a bill to the client(s) against the servicesIt is a time tracking that tells the clients how much time has been spent doing their work. and/or items we offer. It states the details of the amount that is owed by a client. Invoices help us maintain the record of our income in FreshBooks.

In this lesson, we’ll see how to create an invoice and update it. We’ll also see how to upload a logo and use it on the invoice. We use the following endpoints to achieve these tasks:

• Create an invoice: https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/invoices/invoices
• Upload a logo: https://api.freshbooks.com/uploads/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/images
• Update an invoice: https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/invoices/invoices/{INVOICE_ID}

The endpoints we study for invoice-related operations require the following scope permissions:

• user:invoices:read
• user:invoices:write
• user:uploads:read
• user:uploads:write

A single invoice with line items

In this section, we’ll create an invoice ...