SECRET_ID

SECRET_KEY

ACCESS_TOKEN

ITEM_ID

INVOICE_ID

ACCOUNT_ID

CLIENT_ID

CONTACT_ID

INVOICE_NUMBER

PAYMENT_ID

EXPENSE_ID

CODE

ITEM_TO_DELETE

IMAGE_URL

REFRESH_TOKEN

EXPIRY

Gain insights into FreshBooks API, managing clients, invoices, payments, and expenses programmatically. Learn about API endpoints, access keys, and integrate FreshBooks API in a React application.

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FreshBooks is a resource management software that provides several accounting services like invoicing and expenses, time tracking, inventory, and client management. FreshBooks also provides an API to manage this data programmatically.

In this course, you'll learn about FreshBooks API and its different endpoints. This course is a step-by-step guide to signing up for an account and retrieving access keys. You'll get hands-on experience in performing various tasks using the API. These include managing clients, invoices, payment records, expenses, and others. You'll also learn how to integrate FreshBooks API in a functioning React application. 

By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the skills needed to develop applications and integrations using FreshBooks API.

Bookkeeping with FreshBooks API in JavaScript

In this lesson, we learn to record payments against invoices. In the sections below, we explore these two endpoints:
- Record a payment: `/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/payments/payments`
- Update a payment record: `/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/payments/payments/{PAYMENT_ID}`

The `user:payments:write` and `user:payments:read` scope permissions are required to execute the payment operations. 

## Record a payment
Let's add a payment record to a specific invoice in a user account specified by `{ACCOUNT_ID}`. 
### Request parameters
As this call is an HTTP `POST` request, so it takes the `payment` object as a parameter. Let’s see some of its important parameters in the table below:

In this lesson, we learn to record payments against invoices. In the sections below, we explore these two endpoints:
- Record a payment: `/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/payments/payments`
- Update a payment record: `/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/payments/payments/{PAYMENT_ID}`

The `user:payments:write` and `user:payments:read` scope permissions are required to execute the payment operations. 

# Record a payment
Let's add a payment record to a specific invoice in a user account specified by `{ACCOUNT_ID}`. 
## Request parameters
As this call is an HTTP `POST` request, so it takes the `payment` object as a parameter. Let’s see some of its important parameters in the table below:

Learn to record payments and update them using the FreshBooks API.

Add and Update Payment Records

Introduction

Clients

Invoices

Expenses

APIs Integration in React

Conclusion

Appendix

Add and Update Payment Records

Record a payment

Request parameters