Approve Bill Payment
POST/api/purchase-invoices/:purchaseInvoice/payment-request/approve-only
Approve a pending bill payment request without recording a payment. Use this when authorization and payment are handled separately.
purchase-orders:writeGrant this scope to your token under Settings → Developer → Personal Access Tokens.
Authentication: Requires Bearer token.
Fields:
- notes (optional, max 1000): Approval notes.
Approval policy:
While the bill-payment approval policy is enabled you must be eligible for the current step of the bill's payment approval request (403 approval_limit_exceeded otherwise; 409 approval_state_conflict when it was already decided). When your decision completes only your step, the response is the bill plus approval_message (e.g. "Approved your step — waiting on Step 2 (Finance).").
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
Response Headers
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.