The Inventory Planner APIs (beta) provide realtime access to data in your Inventory Planner account and is intended to be used by developers. Please note that the APIs are currently in beta and subject to change.
In this article:
APIs available
Primarily used to sync purchase order information with a platform that is not connected to Inventory Planner, 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.
Commonly employed to pull data in order 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 user-specific and ONLY works for users with full access to the account. 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 ispurchase-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
orerror
)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 nametotal
- total number of itemscount
- number of items in this responselimit
- 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) - equaleqi
- equal ignoring casene
- not equalgt
,gte
,lt
,lte
- greater than, greater than or equal, less then, less than or equalrange
- match numeric value in range (separated by dash), for example, 5-10match
- match regular expressionin
- equal on (comma-separated) values
Here are some examples:
sku=SKU1
orsku_eq=SKU1
to retrieve variant with given SKUreplenishment_gt=0
(orreplenishment_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
Endpoints
See specific API documentation for relevant endpoints:
Purchase Orders
Transfers and Assembly Orders
Purchase Order Items
Purchase Order Connections
Purchase Order Stock Updates
Variants
Variant Vendors