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invoice.history

This method let you get the history of the invoice with the given id.

You call this method with the following URL:

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

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.

Return Values

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

Success
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<request method="invoice.history">
    <history>
        <date>15 Jan 2009</date>
        <event>Payment of 800.00 received.</event>
    </history>
    <history>
        <date>12 Jan 2009</date>
        <event>Invoice was sent to sample@invoicemachine.com.</event>
    </history>
    <history>
        <date>12 Jan 2009</date>
        <event>Invoice created.</event>
    </history>
</request>
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.history" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="api_token" value="c86cea54c71sbb05a5f8297bed641944">
    <input type="hidden" name="id" value="205092">
</form>

Overview