POST
/
quickbooks-desktop
/
bill-payment-checks
/
{id}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
headerrequired

Your Conductor secret key using Bearer auth (e.g., "Authorization: Bearer {{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}").

Headers

Conductor-End-User-Id
string
required

The ID of the EndUser to receive this request (e.g., "Conductor-End-User-Id: {{END_USER_ID}}").

Path Parameters

id
string
required

The QuickBooks-assigned unique identifier of the bill payment check to update.

Body

application/json
revisionNumber
string
required

The current revision number of the bill payment check you are updating, which you can get by fetching the object first. Provide the most recent revisionNumber to ensure you're working with the latest data; otherwise, the update will return an error.

transactionDate
string

The date of this bill payment check, in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD).

bankAccountId
string

The bank account from which the funds are being drawn for this bill payment check; e.g., Checking or Savings. This bill payment check will decrease the balance of this account.

amount
string

The monetary amount of this bill payment check, represented as a decimal string.

exchangeRate
number

The market exchange rate between this bill payment check's currency and the home currency in QuickBooks at the time of this transaction. Represented as a decimal value (e.g., 1.2345 for 1 EUR = 1.2345 USD if USD is the home currency).

isQueuedForPrint
boolean

Indicates whether this bill payment check is included in the queue of documents for QuickBooks to print.

refNumber
string

The case-sensitive user-defined reference number for this bill payment check, which can be used to identify the transaction in QuickBooks. This value is not required to be unique and can be arbitrarily changed by the QuickBooks user.

IMPORTANT: For checks, this field is the check number.

memo
string

A memo or note for this bill payment check, as entered by the user.

applyToTransactions
object[]

The bills to be paid by this bill payment check. This will create a link between this bill payment check and the specified bills.

IMPORTANT: In each applyToTransactions object, you must specify either paymentAmount, applyCredits, discountAmount, or any combination of these; if none of these are specified, you will receive an error for an empty transaction.

IMPORTANT: The target bill must have isPaid=false, otherwise, QuickBooks will report this object as "cannot be found".

Response

200 - application/json

A bill payment check is a transaction that represents a payment by check for a bill.

id
string
required

The unique identifier assigned by QuickBooks to this bill payment check. This ID is unique across all transaction types.

objectType
string
required

The type of object. This value is always "qbd_bill_payment_check".

Allowed value: "qbd_bill_payment_check"
createdAt
string
required

The date and time when this bill payment check was created, in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh:mm). The time zone is the same as the user's time zone in QuickBooks.

updatedAt
string
required

The date and time when this bill payment check was last updated, in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh:mm). The time zone is the same as the user's time zone in QuickBooks.

revisionNumber
string
required

The current revision number of this bill payment check, which changes each time the object is modified. When updating this object, you must provide the most recent revisionNumber to ensure you're working with the latest data; otherwise, the update will return an error.

vendor
object | null
required

The vendor who sent the bill(s) that this check is paying and who will receive this check payment.

IMPORTANT: This vendor must match the vendor on the bill(s) specified in applyToTransactions.

payablesAccount
object | null
required

The Accounts-Payable (A/P) account to which this bill payment check is assigned, used to track the amount owed. If not specified, QuickBooks Desktop will use its default Accounts-Payable account.

IMPORTANT: If this bill payment check is linked to other transactions, this A/P account must match the payablesAccount used in the other transactions.

transactionDate
string
required

The date of this bill payment check, in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD).

bankAccount
object | null
required

The bank account from which the funds are being drawn for this bill payment check; e.g., Checking or Savings. This bill payment check will decrease the balance of this account.

amount
string | null
required

The monetary amount of this bill payment check, represented as a decimal string.

currency
object | null
required

The bill payment check's currency. For built-in currencies, the name and code are standard international values. For user-defined currencies, all values are editable.

exchangeRate
number | null
required

The market exchange rate between this bill payment check's currency and the home currency in QuickBooks at the time of this transaction. Represented as a decimal value (e.g., 1.2345 for 1 EUR = 1.2345 USD if USD is the home currency).

amountInHomeCurrency
string | null
required

The total amount for this bill payment check converted to the home currency of the QuickBooks company file. Represented as a decimal string.

refNumber
string | null
required

The case-sensitive user-defined reference number for this bill payment check, which can be used to identify the transaction in QuickBooks. This value is not required to be unique and can be arbitrarily changed by the QuickBooks user.

IMPORTANT: For checks, this field is the check number.

memo
string | null
required

A memo or note for this bill payment check, as entered by the user.

address
object | null
required

The address that is printed on the bill payment check.

isQueuedForPrint
boolean | null
required

Indicates whether this bill payment check is included in the queue of documents for QuickBooks to print.

externalId
string | null
required

A globally unique identifier (GUID) you can provide for tracking this object in your external system.

IMPORTANT: Must be formatted as a valid GUID; otherwise, QuickBooks will return an error. This field is immutable and can only be set during object creation.

appliedToTransactions
object[]
required

The bill(s) paid by this bill payment check.

customFields
object[]
required

The custom fields for the bill payment check object, added as user-defined data extensions, not included in the standard QuickBooks object.