Add Expense

Adding new expenses may be obtained using this endpoint. For emphasis on specific results, you can add the following parameters when creating new expenses.

Endpoint

POST https://api.xtrakit.com/api/v1/expenses/add

Headers

Authorization: Bearer API_KEY

Body Parameters

Parameters	Type	Description
expense_type string	Required	The type of the expense.
expense_description string	Optional	A detailed description of the expense.
expense_amount decimal(10,2)	Required	The amount of the expense in this format: 10.00
payment_method string	Required	The method used for payment.
expense_image string	Optional	URL to an image or receipt associated with the expense.
created_by string	Required	The user who created the record.

Sample Requests

PHP

<?php

$data = [
  'expense_type' => "Office Supplies",
  'expense_description' => 'Purchased new printer ink'
  'expense_amount' => "200.00", 
  'payment_method' => "MOMO", 
  'expense_image' => "https://url-to-image.com/image.jpg", 
  'created_by' => "Benjamin" 
  ];

$url = 'https://api.xtrakit.com/api/v1/expenses/add';

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => $url,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Authorization: Bearer API_KEY',  // Replace 'API_KEY' with your actual API key
    'Content-Type: application/json' 
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

?>

NodeJS

Python

Sample Response

Success

{
    "status": 200,
    "message": "Expense added successfully",
    "data": {
        "expense": {
            "id": 2,
            "expense_type": "Office Supplies",
            "expense_description": "Purchased new printer ink",
            "expense_amount": "200.00",
            "payment_method": "MOMO",
            "expense_image": "https://url-to-image.com/image.jpg",
            "created_by": "Benjamin",
            "created_at": "2024-08-04 08:23:45",
            "updated_at": "2024-08-04 02:00:43"
        }
    }
}

Error