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Inventory Planner Public API

Programmatic way to access your inventory metrics
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The Inventory Planner API (beta) provides realtime access to data in your Inventory Planner account and is intended to be used by developers. Please note that the API is currently in beta and subject to change.

The two primary use cases for Inventory Planner's API are:

  1. Syncing purchase order information with a platform that is not connected to Inventory Planner. This is typically a 3PL. Detail about purchase orders created in Inventory Planner can be pulled via the API, then receiving information can be pushed back to Inventory Planner.

  2. Pulling data to create custom dashboards or reports. Inventory Planner has over 200 metrics available. These can be queried to create a report outside of Inventory Planner.

Authorization

To access Inventory Planner API, first you need an API authorization key. The key is associated with user. To obtain the key:

  • Log in to Inventory Planner using web browser

  • Go to Account, Settings, API tab

  • Use Generate key to generate API key

  • Save generated key

Use 'Delete key' if you would like to remove the key.

To authorize using API key, add the following two headers to HTTP requests:

Authorization: <API_key>
Account: <account_id>

Note that you can also access the API from the browser using existing Inventory Planner session. This may be useful for making manual requests with browser.

Making Requests

Requests that modify (POST, PUT, PATCH), set Content-Type: application/json header. We also recommend to set Accept: application/json header.

Resource URLs

There are two kinds of resources: entity collection resource (list of items) and single entity resource (single item). Every entity also has two names: singular name and plural name (usually obtained by adding 's'). The URL for single entity resource is normally the child of corresponding collection resource with entity id appended. Additionally, if the entity has a collection field, corresponding collection resource is the child of the entity resource, with field name appended.
The base URL for API is https://app.inventory-planner.com/

Here is an example:

  • Singular name is purchase-order , plural name is purchase-orders .

  • api/v1/purchase-orders is the collection resource.

  • api/v1/purchase-orders/12345 is the single entity resource for the purchase order id 12345.

  • api/v1/purchase-orders/12345/items is the collection resource for items for the purchase order id 12345.

  • api/v1/purchase-orders/12345/items/987 is the single entity resource for item id 987 for the purchase order id 12345.

Request and response structure

The response optionally contains result document with the following fields:

  • status - status of operation (success or error )

  • message - human-readable message describing the operation (optional)

{
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Updated variant 12345"
    },
    ...

Timestamp fields in response/request use RFC822 format (for example, "2018-03-15T10:00:00+01:00")

GET (collection resource) 

GET on a collection resource returns entity list in JSON format. The response contains two fields:

meta is a document with information about result set with the following fields: 

  • name - entity name

  • total - total number of items

  • count - number of items in this response

  • limit - limit for this response (if paging)

<entity_plural_name> in the response is the list of entity values. See description of particular API endpoint for more information.

{
    "meta": {
        "name": "variants",
        "total": 13,
        "limit": "20",
        "page": 0
    },
    "variants": [
        {
            "id": 17948565252,
            ...
        }
    ]
}

GET (single resource)

GET on single item resource returns the entity in JSON format. In the response, entity_singular_name field contains the entity fields.

{
    "variant": {
        "id": 17948565252,
        ...
    }
}

PATCH (single resource)

PATCH on single item resource partially modifies the entity using update contained in the body of request in JSON format. In the request, entity_singular_name should contain the updated fields. In the response, entity_singular_name will return all of the entity fields after update.
Only writable fields can be modified. Read-only and unknown fields in the request are ignored. See the description of particular API endpoint for information about fields.

PATCH request example:

PATCH /api/v1/variants/17948565252
{
    "variant": {
        "lead_time": 7,
        "review_period": 21
    }
}

PATCH response example:

{
    "variant": {
        "id": 17948565252,
        "sku": "SKU1",
        "lead_time": 7,
        "review_period": 21,
        ...
    }
}

PUT (single resource)

This request creates or fully updates entity with id provided in the URL based on request contents. PUT is only available on some resources. 

POST (collection resource)

This request creates new collection item based on request contents. In the request, entity_singular_name should contain the item fields. In the response, entity_singular_name will contain all of the new entity fields after creation.

Restricting fields

fields  parameter contains comma-separated list of fields to return. For example, fields=id,sku,replenishment returns 3 fields.

We recommend to always specify fields parameter to reduce bandwidth usage.

Paging

Paging is controlled by two parameters: limit - the number of results to return and page - page number. The maximum value for limit is 1000.

Filtering

You can filter by a field by using parameter with same name. You can also use field name and operator (separated by '_').
The following operators are available:

  • eq (default) - equal

  • eqi  - equal ignoring case

  • ne - not equal

  • gt , gte , lt , lte - greater than, greater than or equal, less then, less than or equal

  • range - match numeric value in range (separated by dash), for example, 5-10

  • match - match regular expression

  • in - equal on (comma-separated) values 

Here are some examples:

  • sku=SKU1 or sku_eq=SKU1 to retrieve variant with given SKU

  • replenishment_gt=0 (or replenishment_gte=1 ) to retrieve variants with non-zero replenishment number

Removed variants are not returned by default. To retrieve them, use removed=true parameter.

Sorting

Add <field>_sort parameter with possible values asc/desc or 1/-1 . For example, use replenishment_sort=desc or replenishment_sort=-1 to sort by replenishment field in descending order.

Misc

You can pretty print JSON output by adding pretty=1 parameter to the request

API endpoints

Variants (api/v1/variants) and variant (api/v1/variants/{id}) 

A variant corresponds to one variation of a product with particular features (for example, color and size) and contains both information downloaded from e-commerce platform and computed by Inventory Planner.
The following fields are currently supported:

  • id - variant identifier (read-only) 

  • sku - SKU (read-only)

  • lead_time - lead time 

  • review_period - days of stock

  • replenishment - current replenishment number

  • under_value - forecasted lost revenue

  • oos  - forecasted number of days to sell out

Variant vendors (api/v1/variants/[id]/vendors) and variant vendor (api/v1/variants/[id]/vendor/[vendor_id]

Each variant has associated list of vendor data. Vendor identifier (vendor_id) is the vendor name converted to low case. The following vendor data fields are available:

  • cost_price - vendor cost price

  • landing_cost_price - vendor landing cost price 

  • vendor_reference - vendor reference/sku

  • vendor_name - vendor variant name (title)

  • vendor_packaging - MOQ, minimum order quantity

  • uom_ordering - UOM, units of measurement 

Purchase orders (api/v1/purchase-orders) and purchase order (api/v1/purchase-orders/{id})

The following fields for purchase order are currently supported:

  • id  - purchase order identifier in Inventory Planner (read-only)

  • reference  - number/reference number

  • status - status

  • created_date - creation date

  • expected_date - expected date

  • payment_date - payment date

  • shipment_date - shipment date

  • received_date - received date (last) 

  • last_modified - last modified at 

  • readonly  - true if PO cannot be edited in Inventory Planner

  • source_type - 'warehouse' for transfers and assembly orders, 'vendor' for purchase orders 

  • type - 'assembly' for assembly orders, 'transfer' for transfers, 'po' or empty for purchase orders

  • vendor - vendor

  • source_warehouse - source warehouse for transfers and assembly orders

  • source - vendor or source_warehouse

  • warehouse - warehouse

  • vendor_address - vendor address

  • billing_address - billing address

  • shipping_address - shipping address 

  • email - vendor email 

  • attn - Attn 

  • notes - Notes 

  • shipment_method  - shipment method

  • payment_terms - payment terms

  • shipping_handling - shipping/handling charges in order currency

  • shipping_handling_tax shipping/handling tax in order currency 

  • currency - order currency

  • discount_enabled - true if discount column is enabled 

  • default_discount - default discount for line items

  • uom_ordering   

  • uom_round 

  • moq 

  • items - line items (refer to "Purchase order items")

  • total - total cost in order currency (read-only) 

  • total_ordered - total ordered qty (read-only) 

  • total_received - total received qty (read-only) 

  • shop_name - shop name in PDF

  • addMySKUs - true to add variant SKU to line items

  • addVendorSKUs - true to add variant vendor reference/SKU to line items 

  • addBarcodes - true to add variant barcode to line items

  • addCategories - true to add variant categories to line items

  • useTitlesAsVendorName - true to use variant title as line item title, false to use variant vendor product name 

  • custom_fields - custom fields in field=value format 

  • connections - connection information  (refer to "Purchase order connections")

  • stock_updates - information about stock updates pushed to connection (refer to "Purchase order stock updates")

Transfers and Assembly orders

Tramsfers and Assembly orders use the same API endpoints as Purchase orders.

To create Assembly orders it's necesary to set warehouse, source_warehouse, type='assembly' and components for each line item.

Purchase order items (api/v1/purchase-orders/{id}/items) and item (api/v1/purchase-orders/{id}/items/{item_id})

The following fields for purchase order item are currently supported:

  • id - line item variant id

  • title - line item title

  • sku - line item sku 

  • barcode - line item barcode

  • image - line item image URL 

  • vendor_name - line item vendor name 

  • vendor_reference - line item vendor reference/SKU 

  • uom_ordering - line item UOM

  • vendor_packaging - line item MOQ

  • source_stock - stock snapshot at source warehouse for transfers

  • in_stock - stock snapshot at destination warehouse

  • purchase_orders_qty - on order qty snapshot

  • transfer_units_in - transfer in qty snapshot 

  • transfer_units_out - transfer out qty snapshot

  • replenishment - line item ordered (replenished) quantity

  • cost price - line item cost price

  • landing_cost_price - line item landing

  • tax - line item tax 

  • discount - line item discount 

  • cbm - line item cbm

  • received - line item received quantity

  • received_history - line item received history 

  • components - list of components needed to produce line item (for assembly orders)

Line item received history is an array of the documents with the following fields:

  • date - received date time stamp (in Unix format) 

  • value - received qty

Line item components is an array of the documents with the following fields:

  • id - component variant id

  • quantity - component quantity required to produce 1 unit of line item's assembly

  • sku - component SKU

  • title - component title

  • barcode - component barcode

Purchase order connections (api/v1/purchase-orders/[id]/connections) and connection (api/v1/purchase-orders/[id]/connections/[connection])

The following fields for purchase order connection are currently supported:

  • status - One of: success, error, run (save process is running), queued (waiting for QuickBooks Desktop update).

  • connection - connection (internal) name

  • connection_id - connection (internal) id

  • save_po - true if PO is saved into this connection 

  • id - id of this purchase order for this connection

  • reference - reference of this purchase order for this connection 

Purchase order stock updates (api/v1/purchase-orders/{id}/stock_updates)

The following fields for purchase order stock update are currently supported:

  • forDst- true if stock was updated in destination warehouse, or false if stock was update in source warehouse (possible for transfers only)

  • wh - warehouse where stock was updated

  • items - information about updated line items

Items is an array of the documents with the following fields:

  • id - line item variant id

  • stock_before - stock in connection before update

  • delta - stock delta pushed in connection

  • error - non empty error message if stock update for this line item failed

API usage examples

Retrieve sku, replenishment and forecasted lost revenue for first 50 variants by forecasted lost revenue

GET /api/v1/variants?fields=sku,replenishment,under_value&under_value_sort=desc&limit=50&page=0

Update variant vendor data/Assign variant vendor 

PUT /api/v1/variants/1/vendors/mysupplier
{
    "vendor": {
        "cost_price": 2.1,
        "vendor_reference": "R"
    }
}

Response:

{
    "vendor": {
        "cost_price": 2.1,
        "vendor_reference": "R",
        "vendor_name": "N",
        "t": "vendor",
        "s": "user",
        "n": "mysupplier"
    },
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Vendor data vendor mysupplier updated"
    }
}

Use DELETE on variant vendor resource to delete previously assigned vendor and associated data.

Create new purchase order based on current replenishment quantities  

This creates a new purchase order containing items for variants of vendor_v1 and current replenishment quantities greater than 3.

POST /api/v1/purchase-orders
{
    "purchase-order": {
        "status": "OPEN",
        "reference": "MY_PO_20",
        "expected_date": "2018-03-15",
        "vendor": "vendor_1",
        "warehouse": "w1",
        "variants_filter": {
            "vendor": "vendor_1",
            "replenishment_gt": 3
        }
    }
}

Response:

{
    "purchase-order": {
        "status": "draft",
        "vendor": "Wonka Candy (DEMO)",
        "expected_date": "2018-03-15",
        "items": [
...
        ],
        "id": "5a8322013e7859ae69a5d180",
...
    },
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Created purchase-order 5a8322013e7859ae69a5d180"
    }
}

Create new transfer based on current replenishment quantities and save it into a QuickBooks Commerce connection 

POST /api/v1/purchase-orders
{
    "purchase-order": {
        "status": "OPEN",
        "source_warehouse": "w1",
        "warehouse": "w2",
        "expected_date": "2018-03-15",
        "variants_filter": {
            "replenishment_gt": 3
        },
        "connections": [
            {
                "connection": "QuickBooksCommerce.30636",
                "save_po": true
            }
        ]
    }
}

Response:

{
    "purchase-order": {
        "status": "active",
        "source_warehouse": "w1",
        "warehouse": "w2",
        "expected_date": "2018-03-15",
        "connections": [
            {
                "connection": "QuickBooksCommerce.30636",
                "save_po": true,
                "id": "t410034",
                "reference": "ST0021",
                "status": "success"
            }
        ],
        "items": [
...
        ],
        "id": "5a83236c3e78599f6ea5d180",
...
    },
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Created purchase-order 5a83236c3e78599f6ea5d180"
    }
}

Create new Assembly order

POST /api/v1/purchase-orders
{
    "purchase-order": {
        "type": "assembly",
        "status": "OPEN",
        "reference": "MY_AO_20",
        "expected_date": "2018-03-15",
        "warehouse": "w1",
        "source_warehouse": "w1",
        "items": [
            {
               "id": "c1_1",
               "sku": "T-1",
               "title": "Office table",
               "replenishment": 10,
               "components": [
                  {
                     "id": "c1_2",
                     "quantity": 1,
                     "sku": "C-1",
                     "title": "Table top",
                  },
                  {
                     "id": "c1_3",
                     "quantity": 4,
                     "sku": "C-2",
                     "title": "Table leg"
                  }
               ]
           }
        ]
    }
}

Update received quantities in existing purchase order (multiple line items)

This updates (total) received quantity for two line items with variant ids 123/124. 

PATCH /api/v1/purchase-orders/5a8321b33e7859f568a5d180/items
{
    "items": [
        {
            "id": "c20_123",
            "received": 7,
        },
        {
            "id": "c20_124",
            "received": 5,
        }
    ]
}

Response:

{
    "items": [
        {
            "id": "c20_123",
            "replenishment": 10,
            "received": 7
        },
        {
            "id": "c20_124",
            "replenishment": 20,
            "received": 5
        }
    ],
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "2 updated, from total 2 items"
    },
}

Close existing purchase order

Set status field to CLOSED

PATCH /api/v1/purchase-orders/5a8321b33e7859f568a5d180
{
    "purchase-order": {
        "status": "CLOSED",
    }
}

Response:

{
    "purchase-order": {
        "status": "CLOSED",
        "id": "5a8322013e7859ae69a5d180",
...
    },
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Updated purchase-order 5a8322013e7859ae69a5d180"
    }
}

Update received quantities in existing purchase order (single line item)

This updates (total) received quantity for line item with variant id 123. 

PATCH /api/v1/purchase-orders/5a8321b33e7859f568a5d180/items/123
{
    "item": {
       "id": "c20_123",
       "received": 13
    }
}

Response:

{
    "items": {
        "id": 123,
        "replenishment": 20,
        "received": 13
    },
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Purchase order \"1\" item i2 updated"
    }
}

Save existing purchase order into a QuickBooks Commerce connection

PUT /api/v1/purchase-orders/5a8321b33e7859f568a5d180/connections/QuickBooksCommerce.30636
{
    "connection": {
         "save_po": true
    }
}

Response:

{
    "connection": {
        "save_po": true,
        "connection": "QuickBooksCommerce.30636",
        "id": 815902,
        "reference": "PO0043",
        "status": "success"
    },
    "result":{
        "status":"success",
        "message":"Updated purchase-order 5a8321b33e7859f568a5d180 connection QuickBooksCommerce.30636"
    }
}

Retrieve stock updates available for push to destination connection (computed based on received quantities and previous stock updates)

GET /api/v1/purchase-orders/5c9deeb5178a3816620d8362/stock-update?forDst=true

Response:

{
     "items": [
        {
            "id": 123,
            "delta": 10,
            "stock_before": 0
        },
        {
            "id": 456,
            "delta": 5,
            "stock_before": 1,
        },
        ...
    ],
    "forDst": true,
    "wh": 13434355
}

Push stock updates to destination connection

POST /api/v1/purchase-orders/5c9deeb5178a3816620d8362/stock-update
{
    "stock_update":{
        "items": [
             {
                "id": 123,
                "delta": 10,
                "stock_before": 0
             },
             {
                 "id": 456,
                 "delta": 5,
                 "stock_before": 1,
             },
             ...
        ]
    },
    "forDst": true
}

Response:

{
     "items": [
        {
            "id": 123,
            "delta": 10,
            "stock_before": 0
        },
        {
            "id": 456,
            "delta": 5,
            "stock_before": 1,
            "error": "Update request failed"
        },
        ...
    ],
    "forDst": true
}
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