Hook up your own application with The Machine's functionality.

invoice.send

This method let you send the invoice with the given id.

You call this method with the following URL:

http://machine_id.invoicemachine.com/api/invoice.send

Parameters

Parameters are the data you will pass with the call.

api_token

Your secret identifier. You find your API Token under Account Overview in the Account section.

Rules: Required

id

The ID of the invoice.

Rules: Required.

attach (optional)

Attach the invoice as a PDF file in the email.

Rules: If used, it must be set to ''true". Otherwise it will be ignored.

copy (optional)

Send a copy to yourself. The copy will be sent to your email address specified in your account.

Rules: If used, it must be set to ''true". Otherwise it will be ignored.

subject (optional)

Subject of email.

Rules: If this parameter is not set it will use your default send invoice subject from your Settings.

message (optional)

Message for email.

Rules: If this parameter is not set it will use your default send invoice message from your Settings. You can do a line break with {br}.

Return Values

This is the result that will be passed back to you when you have sent a call.

Success

Success: Invoice sent.

The invoice was successfully sent.

Error

Error: No data passed.

No data was passed to the method.

Error: API Token is invalid.

The API Token parameter is missing or incorrectly entered.

Error: ID is invalid.

The ID parameter is missing or incorrectly entered.

Example

The example below is strictly a demonstration of the method and it's parameters. Methods should never be posted from a HTML form. They should be posted directly from your server script.

<form action="http://machine_id.invoicemachine.com/api/invoice.send" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="api_token" value="c86cea54c71sbb05a5f8297bed641944">
    <input type="hidden" name="id" value="205092">
    <input type="hidden" name="attach" value="true">
    <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Invoice">
    <input type="hidden" name="message" value="Hello.{br}Here is your invoice.">
</form>

Overview