Add recurring invoices

1

Hello, I’m new to InvoiceNinja and I want to know how to create recurring invoices with the api.
Would be nice if someone could help me with that.

2

Hi,

Are you using v4 or v5?

3

Im currently using the v4

4

Thanks! In that case you can POST to /invoices and set is_recurring to true

5

Thanks for your help! It works. :grinning:

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6

I got one more question for adding recurring invoices.

I’m trying to create a recurring invoice via curl using this code:

$data = array(
		"client_id" => "1",
		"is_recurring" => true,
		"invoice_items" => array(
			"product_key" => "ITEM",
			"notes" => "Test",
			"cost" => 10,
			"qty" => 1
		)
	);

	$payload = json_encode($data);
	$type = 'POST';
	$token = 'mytoken'; 
	$curl = curl_init();
	$opts = [
		CURLOPT_URL => 'url',
		CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
		CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => $type,
		CURLOPT_POST => $type === 'POST' ? 1 : 0,
		CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload,
		CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER  => [
			'Content-Type: application/json',
			'X-Ninja-Token: '. $token,
		],
	];
	curl_setopt_array($curl, $opts);
	$response = curl_exec($curl);
	curl_close($curl);
	echo $response;
	return $response;

As response I get this:

{“client_id”:“1”,“is_recurring”:true,“invoice_items”:{“product_key”:“ITEM”,“notes”:“Test”,“cost”:10,“qty”:1}}

However, no recurring invoice is created with the code.
I hope you can help me :laughing:

Edit: It looks like it is due to invoice_items. If I remove it, it works.
But somehow I have to specify my product from InvoiceNinja. Is only the product name required? Since I have entered my product name but it does not work.