Bill AP | Vendor transactions
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For Agents
Raise vendor bills, run payment batches, record and reconcile AP payments, and pull the AP summary inside BILL.
Use for: I need to record a new bill from a vendor, I want to set up a recurring bill for our office rent, Run a payment batch for selected open bills, Record an AP payment against a paid bill
Not supported: Does not handle customer invoicing, vendor master data setup, or organisation user management — use for accounts payable bills, payment runs, and AP reconciliation only.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for AP | Vendor transactions, keeping it validated and agent-ready. This BILL surface runs the Accounts Payable side of the platform: agents create purchase orders, raise one-off and recurring bills, issue vendor credits, kick off payment runs, record AP payments, and pull the AP summary for cash-flow reporting. Endpoints also expose payment cancel, void, FX rate quotes, sent-pay records, BillPay items, and disbursement and check image data for downstream reconciliation.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the AP | Vendor transactions to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the AP | Vendor transactions, 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.
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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 | sh2
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 instanceJentic 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 AP | Vendor transactions API.
Create purchase orders, one-off bills, and recurring bills with bulk variants for batch loads
Issue, read, and list vendor credits to offset future payments
Run vendor payment batches via PayBills and record, cancel, or void AP payments
Fetch FX rate quotes for cross-currency payment runs
Read sent payments, BillPay records, disbursement data, and check images for reconciliation
Use Cases
Patterns agents use AP | Vendor transactions API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Automated AP payment runs
Batch up approved bills and pay them in one operation while keeping the ledger in sync. The API exposes Crud/Create/Bill for raising bills, PayBills for the run itself, and RecordAPPayment to mark each bill paid. CancelAPPayment and VoidAPPayment cover the exception paths when a payment must be reversed before it clears.
Call PayBills.json with an array of bill IDs and the source bank account, then call RecordAPPayment for each returned payment confirmation
Recurring bill scheduling
Set up RecurringBill schedules for predictable expenses such as rent, SaaS subscriptions, and retainers. Crud/Create/RecurringBill creates the schedule, Crud/Update/RecurringBill changes the cadence or amount, and List/RecurringBill enumerates active schedules. Each cycle generates a Bill that the agent can pay via PayBills.
Create a RecurringBill for vendor 0vd01AAAAA at $2,500 monthly with a 12-month duration, then list active RecurringBills to confirm the schedule
Vendor credit and cancellation handling
Issue vendor credits when an overpayment, return, or pricing correction occurs and reverse mistaken payments before they clear. The API exposes Crud/Create/VendorCredit and List/BillCredit for credit handling, plus CancelAPPayment and VoidAPPayment to abort an in-flight payment. This keeps the AP ledger accurate without manual UI rework.
Issue a $150 VendorCredit against vendor 0vd01AAAAA, then call CancelAPPayment for a pending payment that referenced the disputed bill
AP reporting and reconciliation
Pull the AP summary, sent-pay history, and check image data into a finance dashboard. GetAPSummary returns aggregate open balances, ListPayments and List/SentPay enumerate completed disbursements, and GetCheckImageData and GetDisbursementData support audit drill-downs. Useful for finance agents producing weekly cash-flow briefs.
Call GetAPSummary and ListPayments for the last 30 days, then return a list of payments over $10,000 with their disbursement IDs
Agent-driven AP automation via Jentic
An AI agent uses Jentic to discover vendor-transaction operations from intents like 'pay our open bills' or 'record a vendor invoice'. Jentic returns the matching operation, loads its schema, and executes with credentials from the vault. The agent can chain Create/Bill + PayBills + RecordAPPayment without ever holding raw BILL session tokens.
Search Jentic for 'pay open bills in bill.com', load the PayBills schema, and execute it for the three open bills due this week
Key Endpoints
45 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for ap | vendor transactions, keeping it validated and agent-ready.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
POST
/Crud/Create/Bill.json
Create a vendor bill
POST
/Bulk/Crud/Create/Bill.json
Bulk create vendor bills
POST
/Crud/Create/RecurringBill.json
Create a recurring bill schedule
POST
/PayBills.json
Run a vendor payment batch
POST
/RecordAPPayment.json
Record an AP payment
POST
/CancelAPPayment.json
Cancel a pending AP payment
POST
/Crud/Create/VendorCredit.json
Issue a vendor credit
POST
/GetAPSummary.json
Retrieve consolidated AP summary
POST
/Crud/Create/Bill.json
Create a vendor bill
POST
/Bulk/Crud/Create/Bill.json
Bulk create vendor bills
POST
/Crud/Create/RecurringBill.json
Create a recurring bill schedule
POST
/PayBills.json
Run a vendor payment batch
POST
/RecordAPPayment.json
Record an AP payment
POST
/CancelAPPayment.json
Cancel a pending AP payment
POST
/Crud/Create/VendorCredit.json
Issue a vendor credit
POST
/GetAPSummary.json
Retrieve consolidated AP summary
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
This API can move money via PayBills, so credential handling matters more than usual. Jentic keeps the BILL session token encrypted in the vault and only releases a scoped reference at execution time, so a leaked agent context cannot drain a payment account.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search intents like 'pay our open bills' or 'record a vendor invoice' and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema, removing the need to read BILL's developer portal.
Time to first call
Direct BILL integration: 4-7 days to handle bill creation, payment runs, error handling, and the cancel/void flows. Through Jentic: under 90 minutes to the first bill paid.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using AP | Vendor transactions API through Jentic.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for AP | Vendor transactions?
BILL does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call AP | Vendor transactions via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.
What authentication does the Vendor Transactions API use?
BILL uses an API key plus session token model. Agents log in once to obtain a session token and pass it on each call alongside the developer key. Jentic stores both encrypted in the vault and exposes only a scoped reference, which matters because this API can move money via PayBills.
Can I run a vendor payment batch through this API?
Yes. Call POST /PayBills.json with the array of bill IDs and the source bank account. Pair with POST /RecordAPPayment.json to mark each bill paid in BILL, and POST /CancelAPPayment.json or POST /VoidAPPayment.json to reverse a payment before it clears.
How do I record a new bill through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'record a vendor bill in bill.com'. Jentic returns the Crud/Create/Bill operation, loads its schema, and your agent calls POST /Crud/Create/Bill.json with the vendor ID, line items, and due date. Use POST /Bulk/Crud/Create/Bill.json for batch loads from an OCR pipeline.
What rate limits apply to this API?
BILL applies per-organisation throttling. Specific quotas are not exposed in the spec, so prefer POST /Bulk/Crud/Create/Bill.json over looped single-creates and batch bill IDs into one POST /PayBills.json call instead of calling once per bill.
Is the AP Vendor Transactions API free?
API access is bundled with paid BILL plans rather than a separate free tier. You need an active BILL organisation and a developer key. Jentic does not add usage charges on top.
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