Update a transaction
Partially updates an existing transaction.
Only the fields you include are changed; pass items to replace the entire line-item list, or tx_time to change the transaction's effective time (e.g. correct a shipment date). Provide revision to enforce optimistic concurrency. Type-specific rules from create still apply (tx_time is rejected on Adjust Stock). When to_location_id is omitted, the existing transaction's to_location is preserved (memo-only / partial updates are supported).
https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/transactions/{tx_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”Request body
Section titled “Request body”New effective time of the transaction (ISO 8601 datetime string). Cannot be in the future. Not allowed on Adjust Stock. Omit to keep the existing transaction time. Moving the time into the past is rejected with tx-modify-too-old-tx-id when more than 5,000 of the team's transactions would need recalculation.
New source location. Only allowed on Move Stock transactions; rejected with 400 on other types.
New destination location.
New counterparty. Pass null to clear an existing partner. Not allowed on Move Stock or Adjust Stock.
New memo. Pass an empty string to clear.
Replacement line items. When provided, the entire item list is replaced; must contain at least one entry.
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Item id. Mutually exclusive with item_sku.
Item SKU (case-insensitive). Mutually exclusive with item_id.
Signed line quantity. Positive for Stock In and Move Stock; negative for Stock Out; signed for Adjust Stock.
Latest revision you have observed. Omit to skip the concurrency check; pass the current value to refuse the update if another writer beat you to it.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”200The updated transaction's id.
Id of the updated transaction.
400Request validation failed, the type-specific rules were violated, or the team 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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402The team is over one of its plan limits (items, locations, or members). Upgrade the plan or reduce usage to continue.
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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403/errors/invalid-request (HTTP 403) from core, distinguished by code: invalid-quantity-tx-type-in/invalid-quantity-tx-type-out when a line quantity has the wrong sign (positive for Stock In and Move Stock, negative for Stock Out), tx-modify-revision-mismatch when the supplied revision is stale (refetch the latest transaction and retry), tx-invalid-param-tx-time-is-future when tx_time is in the future, tx-modify-too-old-tx-id when the edit would require recalculating more than the team's 5,000 most recent transactions (editing very old transactions — including moving tx_time far into the past — is rejected for performance), txs-barcode-id-unique-error when the same item appears on more than one line, or cannot-edit-inventory-count-generated-tx when the transaction was generated by an inventory count (those cannot be edited).
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 transaction with the given id was found in this team, or it was already deleted.
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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413Request body exceeds the size limit (1 MiB). Returned with type /errors/invalid-request.
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 PUT \ --url 'https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/transactions/{tx_id}' \ --header "Authorization: Bearer $BOXHERO_API_TOKEN" \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data '{ "tx_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z", "to_location_id": 47043, "partner_id": 431485, "items": [ { "item_id": 14290445, "quantity": 2 } ], "memo": "Updated memo.", "revision": 1 }'const response = await fetch("https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/transactions/{tx_id}", { method: "PUT", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BOXHERO_API_TOKEN}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "tx_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z", "to_location_id": 47043, "partner_id": 431485, "items": [ { "item_id": 14290445, "quantity": 2 } ], "memo": "Updated memo.", "revision": 1 }),});const data = await response.json();import osimport requests
response = requests.put( "https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/transactions/{tx_id}", headers={ "Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BOXHERO_API_TOKEN"], }, json={ "tx_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z", "to_location_id": 47043, "partner_id": 431485, "items": [ { "item_id": 14290445, "quantity": 2, }, ], "memo": "Updated memo.", "revision": 1, },)data = response.json()PUT /v1/transactions/{tx_id} HTTP/1.1Host: rest.boxhero-app.comAuthorization: Bearer <token>Content-Type: application/json
{ "tx_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z", "to_location_id": 47043, "partner_id": 431485, "items": [ { "item_id": 14290445, "quantity": 2 } ], "memo": "Updated memo.", "revision": 1}Response
{ "id": 14012345}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/invalid-request", "title": "Request validation failed, the type-specific rules were violated, or the team is not in LOCATION mode.", "instance": "/transactions/12345"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/tokens/required", "title": "Missing API token. Provide a Bearer token in the Authorization header.", "instance": "/transactions/12345", "example": "Bearer wqnot0dlysdg5vymubzi4kiv"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded", "title": "The team is over one of its plan limits (items, locations, or members). Upgrade the plan or reduce usage to continue.", "instance": "/transactions/12345"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/core/forbidden", "title": "/errors/invalid-request (HTTP 403) from core, distinguished by code: invalid-quantity-tx-type-in/invalid-quantity-tx-type-out when a line quantity has the wrong sign (positive for Stock In and Move Stock, negative for Stock Out), tx-modify-revision-mismatch when the supplied revision is stale (refetch the latest transaction and retry), tx-invalid-param-tx-time-is-future when tx_time is in the future, tx-modify-too-old-tx-id when the edit would require recalculating more than the team's 5,000 most recent transactions (editing very old transactions — including moving tx_time far into the past — is rejected for performance), txs-barcode-id-unique-error when the same item appears on more than one line, or cannot-edit-inventory-count-generated-tx when the transaction was generated by an inventory count (those cannot be edited).", "instance": "/transactions/12345", "code": "feature-auth-error-example"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/not-found", "title": "No transaction with the given id was found in this team, or it was already deleted.", "instance": "/transactions/12345"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/invalid-request", "title": "Request body is too large.", "instance": "/transactions/12345"}{ "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a", "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40", "type": "/errors/too-many-requests", "title": "Too many requests.", "instance": "/transactions/12345", "retryAfter": 60}