Bill.com

Overview

Bill.com is an online billing and invoicing tool. This class contains methods to:

• Get lists of customers, users, and invoices

• Read, create, and send invoices

• Read, create, and get customers

• Check whether two customers are the same

For more information, see Bill.com developer docs

Note

Authentication

To instantiate the BillCom class, you must provide the username and password you used to sign up for Bill.com, and the Organization ID and Dev Key you received when API access was granted.

Quick Start

Your Username, Password, Organization ID, and Dev Key must be provided as arguments.

from parsons import BillCom

bc = BillCom(username='my_username',
             password='my_password',
             org_id='my_org_id',
             dev_key='my_dev_key',
             api_url='https://api-sandbox.bill.com/api/v2/')

# List all Customers currently in the system
all_contacts = bc.get_customer_list()

# Create a new customer
customer_data = {
    "contactFirstName": "Contact First Name",
}
bc.create_customer('Customer Name', 'customer.email@fakeemail.com', customer_data)

API

class parsons.bill_com.bill_com.BillCom(user_name, password, org_id, dev_key, api_url)

Parameters:

• user_name – str The Bill.com username

• password – str The Bill.com password

• org_id – str The Bill.com organization id

• dev_key – str The Bill.com dev key

• api_url – The Bill.com end point url

get_user_list(start_user=0, max_user=999, **kwargs)

Parameters:

• start_user – int The index of first user to return. Starts from 0 (not 1).

• max_user – str The index of the max user to return

• **kwargs – Any other fields to pass

Returns:

parsons.Table

User information for every user from start_user to max_user

get_customer_list(start_customer=0, max_customer=999, **kwargs)

Parameters:

• start_customer – int The index of first customer to return. Starts from 1 (not 0).

• max_customer – str The index of the max customer to return

• **kwargs – Any other fields to pass

Returns:

parsons.Table

Customer information for every user from start_customer to max_customer

get_invoice_list(start_invoice=0, max_invoice=999, **kwargs)

Parameters:

• start_invoice – int The index of first customer to return. Starts from 1 (not 0).

• max_invoice – str The index of the max customer to return

• **kwargs – Any other fields to pass

Returns:

A list of dictionaries of invoice information for every invoice from start_invoice to max_invoice.

read_customer(customer_id)

Parameters:

customer_id – str The id of the customer to query

Returns:

A dictionary of the customer’s information.

read_invoice(invoice_id)

Parameters:

invoice_id – str The id of the invoice to query

Returns:

A dictionary of the invoice information.

check_customer(customer1, customer2)

Parameters:

• customer1 – dict A dictionary of data on customer1

• customer2 – dict A dictionary of data on customer2

Returns:

True if either

1. customer1 and customer2 have the same id OR 2. customer1 has no id and customer1 customer2 have the same email address

False otherwise

get_or_create_customer(customer_name, customer_email, **kwargs)

Parameters:

• customer_name – str The name of the customer

• customer_email – str The customer’s email

Keyword Args:

**kwargs:

Any other fields to store about the customer.

Returns:

A dictionary of the customer’s information including an id. If the customer already exists, this function will not create a new id and instead use the existing id.

create_invoice(customer_id, invoice_number, invoice_date, due_date, invoice_line_items, **kwargs)

Parameters:

• customer_id – str The customer’s id

• invoice_number – str The invoice number. Every invoice must have a distinct invoice number.

• invoice_date – str The invoice date. This can be the date the invoice was generated of any other relevant date.

• due_date – str The date on which the invoice is due.

• invoice_line_items – list A list of dicts, one for each line item in the invoice. The only required field is “quantity”.

• **kwargs – Any other invoice details to pass.

Returns:

A dictionary of the invoice’s information including an id.

send_invoice(invoice_id, from_user_id, to_email_addresses, message_subject, message_body, **kwargs)

Parameters:

• invoice_id – str The id of the invoice to send

• from_user_id – str The id of the Bill.com user from whom to send the email

• to_email_addresses – The customer’s email address

• message_subject – The subject of the email to send to the customer

• message_body – The body of the email to send to the customer

• **kwargs – Any other details for sending the invoice

Returns:

A dictionary of the sent invoice.