Create estimate

POST /api/v1/estimates

Create a new estimate in draft status.

Operation ID: create_estimate_api_v1_estimates_post · 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.

Request body

Schema: EstimateCreate

customer_id string required

Customer to send estimate to

line_items array · EstimateLineItem requiredEstimateLineItem

Line items

5 fields

variant_id string: Product variant ID or null for custom
description string required: Line item description
quantity integer: Quantity
unit_price integer required: Unit price in cents
amount integer required: Total amount in cents (qty * unit_price)

due_date string

Proposed payment due date (YYYY-MM-DD)

expiration_date string

Estimate expiration date (YYYY-MM-DD)

description string

Estimate description

internal_notes string

Internal notes

currency string

Currency code

Responses

201 Successful Response

Schema: EstimateResponse

id string required
business_id string required
customer_id string required
number string
status string required
currency string required
total integer
total_in_dollars string
description string
internal_notes string
line_items object
due_date string · date-time
expiration_date string · date-time
converted_invoice_id string
sent_at string · date-time
accepted_at string · date-time
declined_at string · date-time
converted_at string · date-time
pdf_url string
created_at string · date-time required
updated_at string · date-time required
customer_name string
can_be_sent boolean
can_be_accepted boolean
can_be_declined boolean
can_be_converted boolean
can_be_updated boolean
can_be_deleted boolean

400 Bad Request - Invalid input

401 Unauthorized - Authentication required

403 Forbidden - Insufficient permissions

404 Not Found - Resource does not exist

422 Validation Error

Schema: HTTPValidationError

detail array · ValidationError ValidationError

5 fields

loc array · string | integer required
msg string required
type string required
input object
ctx object

Code samples

POST /api/v1/estimates

bash

curl -X POST 'https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/estimates' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer dz_your_token' \
  -H 'x-business-id: YOUR_BUSINESS_ID' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "customer_id": "string",
  "line_items": []
}'

javascript

const response = await fetch('https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/estimates', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer dz_your_token',
    'x-business-id': 'YOUR_BUSINESS_ID',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "customer_id": "string",
  "line_items": []
}),
});
const data = await response.json();

python

import httpx

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer dz_your_token",
    "x-business-id": "YOUR_BUSINESS_ID",
}

payload = {
  "customer_id": "string",
  "line_items": []
}

response = httpx.post("https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/estimates", headers=headers, json=payload)
data = response.json()