Approve Bill Payment Approval Step
POST/api/purchase-invoices/:purchaseInvoice/payment-approval-steps/approve
Approve the current pending step in a bill's payment approval chain. When the final step is approved the bill's payment becomes approved.
purchase-orders:writeGrant this scope to your token under Settings → Developer → Personal Access Tokens.
Authentication: Requires Bearer token.
Fields:
- notes (optional, max 1000): Notes for this approval step.
Approval policy: These approval-level steps are read-only while the bill-payment approval policy is enabled — use Approve Approval Request / Reject Approval Request instead (422).
Request
Responses
- 200
- 401
- 403
- 404
- 422
- 429
OK
Response Headers
Unauthenticated — the bearer token is missing, revoked, expired, or malformed. Never retry automatically; fix the credential. See the Errors guide.
Forbidden — the token lacks a required scope, the endpoint is not available to API tokens, or the user behind the token lacks the permission. A human must adjust the token scopes or user permissions; do not retry.
Not found — no record with the given identifier (or the route does not exist). Verify the ID before retrying.
Unprocessable Entity
Response Headers
Rate limited — platform limit is 1,000 requests/min; individual tokens may carry lower limits. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying. See the Rate Limits guide.