`requests.create`

Ask an eligible person to resolve a record, optionally with a personal message. Find the eligible people and their assigneeUserId with requests.people first. Creates their personal task immediately and batches their notification email after ten minutes. Requires an idempotency key; one open request per record and recipient.

POST/api/v1/accounting/requests.create

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:write

Who can call it

admin, finance, contributor

Retries

Idempotency key required

MCP

accounting_requests_create

Reaches outside Oatmilk

It emails people or calls another service.

Fields

subjectTypeenumRequired
The kind of record this is about, such as entry, invoice or mail.
entrysubmissionmailstatementcontractortimesheetcompliance_itemintake_item
subjectIdstring (ID)Required
The ID of the record this is about.
assigneeUserIdstringRequired
1–200 characters
messagestring
at most 2000 characters
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/requests.create \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "subjectType": "entry",
  "subjectId": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
  "assigneeUserId": "example"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/requests.create", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "subjectType": "entry",
    "subjectId": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
    "assigneeUserId": "example"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/requests.create",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "subjectType": "entry",
        "subjectId": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
        "assigneeUserId": "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/requests.create

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/requests.create \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "subjectType": "entry",
  "subjectId": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
  "assigneeUserId": "example"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/requests.create", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "subjectType": "entry",
    "subjectId": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
    "assigneeUserId": "example"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/requests.create",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "subjectType": "entry",
        "subjectId": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
        "assigneeUserId": "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