`contractors.payments.identify`

Preview or apply contractor identification for one outgoing bank transaction, or queue a bounded backfill for all eligible transactions. Applying requires an idempotency key and never sends money.

POST/api/v1/accounting/contractors.payments.identify

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:write

Who can call it

admin, finance

Retries

Idempotency key accepted

MCP

accounting_contractors_payments_identify

Fields

transactionIdstring (ID)
The ID of a bank or card transaction, from transactions.list.
dryRunboolean
Default true
scopeobject
No other fields · Default {}
idempotencyKeystring
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.
8–150 characters

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/contractors.payments.identify \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/contractors.payments.identify", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/contractors.payments.identify",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={},
    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/contractors.payments.identify

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/contractors.payments.identify \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/contractors.payments.identify", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/contractors.payments.identify",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={},
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Fields inside scope

Example

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