Get an item
Returns a single item by id.
The response includes a quantities per-location breakdown alongside the rolled-up quantity; pass location_ids to scope the breakdown to specific locations.
https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/items/{item_id}Authorizations
Section titled “Authorizations”Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your API token.
Path parameters
Section titled “Path parameters”Query parameters
Section titled “Query parameters”Scope the quantities breakdown (and the quantity total) to specific locations. Only requested locations with nonzero stock appear in quantities. When omitted, quantities covers every active location where the item has nonzero stock.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”200The requested item.
An item — the smallest unit of inventory tracked by BoxHero. Each item carries an SKU, barcode, cost, selling price, on-hand quantity, and any custom attributes you have defined.
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Item id.
Item display name.
Stock Keeping Unit. Unique within the team. Every item has one; a random SKU-XXXXXXXX is generated when none is given on creation.
Primary barcode for the item. Empty string when not assigned.
URL of the item's photo. null when no photo is set.
Custom attribute values attached to the item. Manage the underlying attribute specs via /item-attrs.
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Attribute spec id (see GET /item-attrs).
Value type of this attribute (text, date, number, or barcode). File-type attributes are app-only and are never returned here.
Possible valuestextdatenumberbarcode
Attribute display name.
Attribute value. text/date/barcode are returned as strings (date as YYYY-MM-DD); number is returned as a number.
Cost per unit, as a decimal string (range ±999,999,999.999, up to 3 decimal places). Defaults to "0" when not assigned.
Selling price per unit, as a decimal string (range ±999,999,999.999, up to 3 decimal places). Defaults to "0" when not assigned.
Total on-hand quantity for this item, summed across all locations. When location_ids is passed, summed over those locations only.
Per-location stock breakdown. Always present. Only locations that are not deleted and where this item has nonzero stock appear. With location_ids set, only the requested locations are considered. Empty array when the item has no stock at any considered location.
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Location id where this stock breakdown applies.
On-hand quantity of this item at the location.
400Team is not in LOCATION mode.
Unique exception id (ex_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.
Possible values/errors/not-found/errors/invalid-request/errors/invalid-team-mode/errors/tokens/invalid/errors/tokens/required/errors/too-many-requests/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded/errors/core/forbidden/errors/core/unhandled/errors/unhandled
Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
Request correlation id (rq_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. rq_01abf3...). Identical to the X-Correlation-Id response header. A client-supplied X-Correlation-Id request header (at most 128 chars of A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated rq_… id.
Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. /items/12345). Path-only, no /v1 version prefix. Absent on unknown-path 404 and unexpected 500 responses.
Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. not-available-for-api-token on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on type.
Field-level error details. Present on request-validation /errors/invalid-request (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON 400, 413 body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include 403). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like path segments and a human-readable message.
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401Missing, invalid, or revoked API token. /errors/tokens/required when no Bearer token is sent; /errors/tokens/invalid when the token is unknown or revoked (a revoked token may keep working for up to 60 seconds because validation results are cached).
Unique exception id (ex_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.
Possible values/errors/not-found/errors/invalid-request/errors/invalid-team-mode/errors/tokens/invalid/errors/tokens/required/errors/too-many-requests/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded/errors/core/forbidden/errors/core/unhandled/errors/unhandled
Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
Request correlation id (rq_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. rq_01abf3...). Identical to the X-Correlation-Id response header. A client-supplied X-Correlation-Id request header (at most 128 chars of A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated rq_… id.
Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. /items/12345). Path-only, no /v1 version prefix. Absent on unknown-path 404 and unexpected 500 responses.
Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. not-available-for-api-token on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on type.
Field-level error details. Present on request-validation /errors/invalid-request (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON 400, 413 body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include 403). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like path segments and a human-readable message.
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404No item with the given id was found in this team.
Unique exception id (ex_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.
Possible values/errors/not-found/errors/invalid-request/errors/invalid-team-mode/errors/tokens/invalid/errors/tokens/required/errors/too-many-requests/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded/errors/core/forbidden/errors/core/unhandled/errors/unhandled
Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
Request correlation id (rq_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. rq_01abf3...). Identical to the X-Correlation-Id response header. A client-supplied X-Correlation-Id request header (at most 128 chars of A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated rq_… id.
Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. /items/12345). Path-only, no /v1 version prefix. Absent on unknown-path 404 and unexpected 500 responses.
Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. not-available-for-api-token on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on type.
Field-level error details. Present on request-validation /errors/invalid-request (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON 400, 413 body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include 403). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like path segments and a human-readable message.
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429Rate limit exceeded. Limits are per team and shared by all of the team's API tokens: 5 requests per second and 300 requests per minute. The RateLimit and X-RateLimit-* headers reflect the per-minute window; check them and Retry-After before retrying. This status is also returned when the client IP exceeds 30 failed authentication attempts within 60 seconds, even if the token is valid.
Unique exception id (ex_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.
Possible values/errors/not-found/errors/invalid-request/errors/invalid-team-mode/errors/tokens/invalid/errors/tokens/required/errors/too-many-requests/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded/errors/core/forbidden/errors/core/unhandled/errors/unhandled
Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
Request correlation id (rq_ followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. rq_01abf3...). Identical to the X-Correlation-Id response header. A client-supplied X-Correlation-Id request header (at most 128 chars of A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated rq_… id.
Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. /items/12345). Path-only, no /v1 version prefix. Absent on unknown-path 404 and unexpected 500 responses.
Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. not-available-for-api-token on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on type.
Field-level error details. Present on request-validation /errors/invalid-request (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON 400, 413 body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include 403). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like path segments and a human-readable message.
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Request
curl --request GET \ --url 'https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/items/{item_id}' \ --header "Authorization: Bearer $BOXHERO_API_TOKEN"const response = await fetch("https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/items/{item_id}", { method: "GET", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BOXHERO_API_TOKEN}`, },});const data = await response.json();import osimport requests
response = requests.get( "https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/items/{item_id}", headers={ "Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BOXHERO_API_TOKEN"], },)data = response.json()GET /v1/items/{item_id} HTTP/1.1Host: rest.boxhero-app.comAuthorization: Bearer <token>Response
{ "item": { "id": 14290445, "name": "Finish Setting Powder", "sku": "SKU-12345678", "barcode": "2097678335587", "photo_url": "https://your.image-server.com/item_image.png", "attrs": [ { "id": 485697, "type": "text", "name": "Brand", "value": "Acme Beauty" }, { "id": 413101, "type": "date", "name": "Expiration Date", "value": "2026-12-31" }, { "id": 485086, "type": "number", "name": "Minimum Stock", "value": 20 } ], "cost": "8.5", "price": "19.99", "quantity": 152, "quantities": [ { "location_id": 47041, "quantity": 120 }, { "location_id": 47043, "quantity": 32 } ] }}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/invalid-team-mode", "title": "This API is only available in Location mode. For Basic or Unit mode, please contact support.", "instance": "/items/12345"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/tokens/required", "title": "Missing API token. Provide a Bearer token in the Authorization header.", "instance": "/items/12345", "example": "Bearer wqnot0dlysdg5vymubzi4kiv"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/not-found", "title": "No item with the given id was found in this team.", "instance": "/items/12345"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/too-many-requests", "title": "Too many requests.", "instance": "/items/12345", "retryAfter": 60}