Force-resolve a stuck pending-approval bill

POST/api/v1/bills/{bill_id}/resolve-approval

Manually drive a bill that is wedged in 'pending_approval' to a terminal state when the normal Approve/Reject card is unavailable (the approval run never started, crashed before suspending, or suspended on a gate with no approvers). Cancels any in-flight approval run for the bill, then either approves it to 'received' (posting the journal entry) or rejects it to 'canceled'.

Operation ID: resolve_pending_approval·View as markdown·OpenAPI slice

Authentication

Bearer token authentication. Pass your DayZero API token in the Authorization header and the target business UUID in x-business-id.

Parameters

Path

bill_idstringrequired

Request body

Schema: ResolvePendingApprovalRequest

actionstringrequired

'approve' posts the bill to 'received'; 'reject' moves it to 'canceled'.

One of: approve, reject

ledger_idstring

Expense ledger to debit when approving. Required unless the bill carries a persisted multi-account split. Ignored for 'reject'.

reasonstring

Optional reason captured in the audit trail when rejecting.

Responses

201Successful Response

Schema: SuccessEnvelope_BillResponse_

successboolean
messagestring
codestring
dataBillResponse

400Bad Request - Invalid input

Schema: ErrorResponse

errorstringrequired: Error category: validation_error, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, rate_limited, server_error, or service_unavailable.
messagestringrequired: Human-readable explanation, safe to show to end users.
codestringrequired: Stable machine-readable code in CATEGORY_NNN form (e.g. NOT_FOUND_006, AUTH_010, GEN_002).
request_idstring: Correlation id for support requests. Echoes the x-request-id request header when one was supplied.
errorsobject: Field-level validation messages keyed by field name. Present on 400/422 validation failures only.

401Unauthorized - Missing/invalid token or no access to this business

Schema: ErrorResponse

errorstringrequired: Error category: validation_error, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, rate_limited, server_error, or service_unavailable.
messagestringrequired: Human-readable explanation, safe to show to end users.
codestringrequired: Stable machine-readable code in CATEGORY_NNN form (e.g. NOT_FOUND_006, AUTH_010, GEN_002).
request_idstring: Correlation id for support requests. Echoes the x-request-id request header when one was supplied.
errorsobject: Field-level validation messages keyed by field name. Present on 400/422 validation failures only.

403Forbidden - Insufficient permissions

Schema: ErrorResponse

errorstringrequired: Error category: validation_error, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, rate_limited, server_error, or service_unavailable.
messagestringrequired: Human-readable explanation, safe to show to end users.
codestringrequired: Stable machine-readable code in CATEGORY_NNN form (e.g. NOT_FOUND_006, AUTH_010, GEN_002).
request_idstring: Correlation id for support requests. Echoes the x-request-id request header when one was supplied.
errorsobject: Field-level validation messages keyed by field name. Present on 400/422 validation failures only.

404Not Found - Resource does not exist

Schema: ErrorResponse

errorstringrequired: Error category: validation_error, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, rate_limited, server_error, or service_unavailable.
messagestringrequired: Human-readable explanation, safe to show to end users.
codestringrequired: Stable machine-readable code in CATEGORY_NNN form (e.g. NOT_FOUND_006, AUTH_010, GEN_002).
request_idstring: Correlation id for support requests. Echoes the x-request-id request header when one was supplied.
errorsobject: Field-level validation messages keyed by field name. Present on 400/422 validation failures only.

422Validation Error

Schema: ErrorResponse

errorstringrequired: Error category: validation_error, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, rate_limited, server_error, or service_unavailable.
messagestringrequired: Human-readable explanation, safe to show to end users.
codestringrequired: Stable machine-readable code in CATEGORY_NNN form (e.g. NOT_FOUND_006, AUTH_010, GEN_002).
request_idstring: Correlation id for support requests. Echoes the x-request-id request header when one was supplied.
errorsobject: Field-level validation messages keyed by field name. Present on 400/422 validation failures only.

Code samples

POST/api/v1/bills/{bill_id}/resolve-approval

bash

curl -X POST 'https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/bills/{bill_id}/resolve-approval' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer dz_your_token' \
  -H 'x-business-id: YOUR_BUSINESS_ID' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "action": "approve",
  "ledger_id": "0192a4f0-1b2c-7d3e-8f4a-5b6c7d8e9f11"
}'