Create asset category

POST /api/v1/fixed-assets/categories

Create a new asset category.

Request Body:

name: Category name, 1-255 chars (required)
description: Category description, max 1000 chars (optional)
default_useful_life_months: Default useful life in months, 1-600 (optional, defaults to 60)
default_depreciation_method: Default depreciation method - straight_line, declining_balance, double_declining, units_of_production (optional, defaults to 'straight_line')
default_salvage_percent: Default salvage percentage, 0-100 (optional, defaults to 0)
asset_ledger_id: Ledger ID for asset account (optional)
depreciation_expense_ledger_id: Ledger ID for depreciation expense (optional)
accumulated_depreciation_ledger_id: Ledger ID for accumulated depreciation (optional)

Operation ID: create_asset_category_api_v1_fixed_assets_categories_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: AssetCategoryCreate

name string required: Category name
description string: Category description
default_useful_life_months integer: Default useful life in months for assets in this category
default_depreciation_method DepreciationMethod DepreciationMethod: Default depreciation method
default_salvage_percent integer: Default salvage value as percentage of cost
asset_ledger_id string: Ledger account for asset cost
depreciation_expense_ledger_id string: Ledger account for depreciation expense
accumulated_depreciation_ledger_id string: Ledger account for accumulated depreciation

Responses

201 Successful Response

Schema: AssetCategoryResponse

name string required: Category name
description string: Category description
default_useful_life_months integer: Default useful life in months for assets in this category
default_depreciation_method DepreciationMethod DepreciationMethod: Default depreciation method
default_salvage_percent integer: Default salvage value as percentage of cost
id string required: Category ID
asset_ledger_id string: Ledger account for asset cost
depreciation_expense_ledger_id string: Ledger account for depreciation expense
accumulated_depreciation_ledger_id string: Ledger account for accumulated depreciation
asset_count integer: Number of assets in this category
created_at string · date-time required: Record creation timestamp
updated_at string · date-time required: Last update timestamp

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/fixed-assets/categories

bash

curl -X POST 'https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/fixed-assets/categories' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer dz_your_token' \
  -H 'x-business-id: YOUR_BUSINESS_ID' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "string"
}'

javascript

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

python

import httpx

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

payload = {
  "name": "string"
}

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