Apideck Accounting API

Name: Accounting API
Brand: Accounting API
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Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Accounting API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Accounting API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Accounting API.

Create and list invoices with line items, tax rates, and customer references across many accounting platforms

Push and pull bills, bill payments, and supplier records using a normalised supplier schema

Read and write ledger accounts, journal entries, and tracking categories for general-ledger workflows

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For Agents

Read and write invoices, bills, payments, customers, suppliers, and ledger accounts across Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite, and other accounting platforms through one unified schema.

Use for: Create an invoice for a customer in the connected accounting platform, List all unpaid invoices for a customer across multiple ledgers, Record a bill payment against a supplier invoice, Retrieve the Profit and Loss report for the current quarter

Not supported: Does not handle payroll runs, tax filing submissions, or bank-feed ingestion - use for ledger transactions, invoices, bills, and standard accounting reports only.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Accounting API for, with concrete tasks.

★ SaaS Billing to Ledger Sync

Push invoices from a SaaS billing system into whichever accounting platform a customer uses (Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite, FreshBooks) using a single integration. Apideck's /accounting/invoices endpoint accepts a normalised invoice payload, and the unified API translates it into the native object on the connected ledger. SaaS finance teams typically replace 5+ direct integrations with a single Apideck contract this way.

POST a new invoice to /accounting/invoices with line items totalling $499.00 and the customer reference, then verify the response shows the invoice was created on the connected ledger

Expense and Bill Capture

Forward supplier bills and expenses captured by an OCR or expense-management app into the customer's accounting platform of choice. Apideck's /accounting/bills, /accounting/expenses, and /accounting/bill-payments endpoints accept the unified payload and write to whichever ledger the customer uses. The integration is the same whether the customer runs Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage.

POST a bill to /accounting/bills with the supplier reference and line items, then POST a payment to /accounting/bill-payments to mark it as paid

Financial Reporting Aggregation

Pull Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Aged Debtors, and Aged Creditors reports from many customers' ledgers into a single dashboard. Apideck returns each report in a consistent schema so a reporting tool does not need to translate between Xero P&L and QuickBooks P&L manually. Useful for FP&A vendors and lenders who underwrite loans against ledger data.

GET /accounting/profit-and-loss with start_date and end_date for the last quarter and store the returned line items in a reporting database

AI Agent Bookkeeping Assistant

Give an AI agent a tool that can read invoices, create bills, and reconcile payments in whichever accounting platform a customer uses. Through Jentic, the agent searches for an intent like 'create invoice in customer accounting platform' and gets the matching Apideck operation with its input schema. The agent does not need separate integrations per platform.

Search Jentic for 'create accounting invoice', load the /accounting/invoices schema, and execute with the customer reference and line items returned by the upstream conversation

Key Endpoints

95 endpoints — apideck accounting is a unified api that maps a single schema for invoices, bills, payments, ledger accounts, customers, suppliers, and tax rates onto many downstream accounting platforms such as xero, quickbooks, sage, netsuite, and freshbooks.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/accounting/invoices

List invoices on the connected ledger with filters

POST

/accounting/invoices

Create a new invoice

GET

/accounting/bills

List supplier bills on the connected ledger

POST

/accounting/bill-payments

Record a payment against a supplier bill

GET

/accounting/ledger-accounts

List chart-of-accounts entries

POST

/accounting/journal-entries

Create a journal entry

GET

/accounting/profit-and-loss

Fetch Profit and Loss report for a period

GET

/accounting/balance-sheet

Fetch Balance Sheet as of a date

GET

/accounting/invoices

List invoices on the connected ledger with filters

POST

/accounting/invoices

Create a new invoice

GET

/accounting/bills

List supplier bills on the connected ledger

POST

/accounting/bill-payments

Record a payment against a supplier bill

GET

/accounting/ledger-accounts

List chart-of-accounts entries

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Apideck API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'list open invoices' or 'read the balance sheet', and Jentic returns the matching Apideck Accounting operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using Accounting API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Apideck Accounting API use?

Apideck uses three required headers per call: Authorization with a bearer API key, x-apideck-app-id with your Unify application id, and x-apideck-consumer-id with the end-customer reference stored in Apideck Vault. Through Jentic all three values are stored encrypted in the vault and attached to the request at execution time.

Which accounting platforms does the Apideck Accounting API cover?

Apideck Unify routes the unified accounting calls to downstream connectors including Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage Business Cloud, NetSuite, FreshBooks, MYOB, and Wave. Use the x-apideck-service-id header to pin the call to a specific connector when a consumer has more than one connected.

Can I create an invoice with the Apideck Accounting API?

Yes. POST to /accounting/invoices with a body that includes the customer_id, currency, due_date, and line_items. Apideck translates the unified payload into the native invoice on the connected platform and returns the created object with the platform's invoice id.

What are the rate limits for the Apideck Accounting API?

Apideck Unify enforces rate limits at both the Unify layer and the underlying connector. The connector-side limit dominates in practice, so a Xero call respects Xero's limits and a QuickBooks call respects QuickBooks' limits. The API returns ConnectorRateLimitError on connector throttling and HTTP 429 on Unify throttling - retry with backoff in both cases.

How do I fetch a Profit and Loss report through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get profit and loss report', load the /accounting/profit-and-loss schema, and execute with start_date and end_date. The response returns the report rows in Apideck's unified shape, regardless of whether the connector is Xero or QuickBooks.

Is the Apideck Accounting API free?

Apideck Unify offers a free tier with capped requests; production use is billed per consumer connection. See https://www.apideck.com/pricing for current tiers and contact sales@apideck.com for volume pricing.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Apideck Accounting API?

Yes. Because Jentic One is self-hosted, you set the rules that decide which of the 95 Apideck Accounting operations your agent may call and which credentials it may use. You can allow read-only operations like listing invoices at GET /accounting/invoices and reading a report at GET /accounting/profit-and-loss while leaving out write operations such as POST /accounting/journal-entries. The agent can only call the operations you have listed, so it never posts a bill payment or a journal entry unless you explicitly grant it.

Apideck Accounting API

Connect the Accounting API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with Accounting API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs