`entries.place.set`

Save where a purchase was made with entryId, lat, lon, a label, an optional address and an idempotencyKey. A place a person set is never replaced by an automatic lookup. Contributors can set only the place of transactions they own.

POST/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:write

Who can call it

admin, finance, contributor

Retries

Idempotency key required

MCP

accounting_entries_place_set

Fields

entryIdstring (ID)Required
The ID of an accounting entry, from entries.list or attention.mine.
latnumberRequired
-90 to 90
lonnumberRequired
-180 to 180
labelstringRequired
1–200 characters
addressstring or null
citystring or null
regionstring or null
countryCodestring or null
idempotencyKeystringRequired
Any unique text you generate once per intended change, so a retried request only happens once. Send it as the Idempotency-Key header instead if you prefer; if you send both they must match.
8–200 characters

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
  "lat": 1,
  "lon": 1,
  "label": "example"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
    "lat": 1,
    "lon": 1,
    "label": "example"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
        "lat": 1,
        "lon": 1,
        "label": "example",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Response

{
  "data": { … }
}

Try it

Checks your input with this action’s real schema and answers like the API, with synthetic data. No key needed, and nothing changes.

Input

POST/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
  "lat": 1,
  "lon": 1,
  "label": "example"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
    "lat": 1,
    "lon": 1,
    "label": "example"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.place.set",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
        "lat": 1,
        "lon": 1,
        "label": "example",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Example

Try it