SECRET_ID

SECRET_KEY

AUTH_CODE

ITEM_ID

INVOICE_ID

ACCOUNT_ID

CLIENT_ID

CONTACT_ID

INVOICE_NUMBER

PAYMENT_ID

EXPENSE_ID

CODE

ITEM_TO_DELETE

IMAGE_URL

REFRESH_TOKEN

EXPIRY

Gain insights into using FreshBooks API in Python. Learn about endpoints, creating, updating customer records, generating invoices, and updating payment and expense records efficiently.

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FreshBooks is an accounting platform for small and medium businesses.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to using the FreshBooks API. In this course, you’ll learn about the API and its various endpoints. You’ll learn how to create, update, and transfer customer and client records. You’ll also learn how to generate invoices and use the Freshbooks API to update payment and expense records.

Bookkeeping with FreshBooks API in Python

# Overview
In the previous lesson, we extracted the `ACCOUNT_ID` of the authenticated user. By ‘user,’ we mean an admin who manages and interacts with the application. A user is responsible for making all API calls. Meanwhile, a client is an entity for which a user maintains records.

This chapter walks us through some of the operations related to clients and contacts. In this lesson, we’ll create a new client and update it using the following endpoints:

- Create and list clients: `{base_url}/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/users/clients`
- Update a client:  `{base_url}/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/users/clients/{CLIENT_ID}`


>**Note**: 
These endpoints of `clients` require `user:clients:read` and `user:clients:write` permissions to perform the intended tasks.

# Create a client
In this section, we’ll create a new client using the `{base_url}/accounting/account/{ACCOUNT_ID}/users/clients` endpoint. This endpoint utilizes the HTTP `POST` method to create a new client in our FreshBooks account. We’ll make payments and send invoices to this client in the next lessons.


## Request `headers`
Mostly, the `headers` of a request contain the following:
- `Content-Type`: This defines the format of our request, and normally its value is `applications/json`.
- `Authorization`: This defines the type of authorization used by FreshBooks endpoints. These endpoints utilize the Bearer token to authenticate whether the request is valid.
## Request parameters
This endpoint takes an object `client` as a parameter. Let's see the fields of the `client` object in the table below:


Learn to create a new client and update it using the FreshBooks API.

Create and Update a Client

Introduction

Clients

Invoices

Expenses

APIs Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Create and Update a Client