Receive returned quantities

Creates a partial receiving transaction for a sales return.

Quantities are positive; the transaction direction is Stock In. Recording stock through the transaction endpoints moves the status forward automatically: confirmed becomes in-progress once any quantity is recorded, and done once nothing remains; a done return is never reverted by later transaction changes.

POSThttps://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}/transactions

Autorisation

Authorizationstringobligatoire

En-tête d'authentification Bearer au format Bearer <token>, où <token> est votre jeton d'API.

Paramètres de chemin

return_idintegerminimum 0, maximum 2147483647obligatoire

Corps de la requête

location_idintegerminimum 0, maximum 2147483647obligatoire

transaction_timestringdate-time

memostringmax length 2000

itemsarray of objectobligatoire

Afficher les propriétés

item_idintegerminimum 0, maximum 2147483647

Item id to fulfill. Mutually exclusive with item_sku. Bundles cannot be fulfilled.

item_skustringmin length 1, max length 255

Item SKU to fulfill (case-insensitive). Mutually exclusive with item_id.

quantitynumberobligatoire

Positive quantity; direction is derived by resource.

revisionintegerminimum 0, maximum 9007199254740991

Réponses

201The created transaction's id.

idintegerminimum 0, maximum 2147483647obligatoire

Created location transaction id.

400Request validation failed (including an unknown item_sku), or the team is not in LOCATION mode.

idstringobligatoire

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.

typestringobligatoire

Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.

Valeurs possibles/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

titlestringobligatoire

Human-readable summary of the error, in English.

correlationIDstringobligatoire

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.

instancestring

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.

codestring

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.

errorsarray of object

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.

Afficher les propriétés

patharray of string | numberobligatoire

messagestringobligatoire

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).

idstringobligatoire

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.

typestringobligatoire

Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.

titlestringobligatoire

Human-readable summary of the error, in English.

correlationIDstringobligatoire

instancestring

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.

codestring

errorsarray of object

Afficher les propriétés

patharray of string | numberobligatoire

messagestringobligatoire

404No return with the given id was found in this team.

idstringobligatoire

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.

typestringobligatoire

Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.

titlestringobligatoire

Human-readable summary of the error, in English.

correlationIDstringobligatoire

instancestring

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.

codestring

errorsarray of object

Afficher les propriétés

patharray of string | numberobligatoire

messagestringobligatoire

409The supplied revision is stale.

idstringobligatoire

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.

typestringobligatoire

Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.

titlestringobligatoire

Human-readable summary of the error, in English.

correlationIDstringobligatoire

instancestring

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.

codestring

errorsarray of object

Afficher les propriétés

patharray of string | numberobligatoire

messagestringobligatoire

413Request body exceeds the size limit (1 MiB). Returned with type /errors/invalid-request.

idstringobligatoire

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.

typestringobligatoire

Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.

titlestringobligatoire

Human-readable summary of the error, in English.

correlationIDstringobligatoire

instancestring

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.

codestring

errorsarray of object

Afficher les propriétés

patharray of string | numberobligatoire

messagestringobligatoire

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.

idstringobligatoire

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.

typestringobligatoire

Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on title.

titlestringobligatoire

Human-readable summary of the error, in English.

correlationIDstringobligatoire

instancestring

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.

codestring

errorsarray of object

Afficher les propriétés

patharray of string | numberobligatoire

messagestringobligatoire

Requête

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}/transactions' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $BOXHERO_API_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "location_id": 47041,
    "transaction_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z",
    "memo": "Partial receipt",
    "items": [
      {
        "item_sku": "SKU-12345678",
        "quantity": 60
      }
    ],
    "revision": 3
  }'

const response = await fetch("https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}/transactions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BOXHERO_API_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "location_id": 47041,
    "transaction_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z",
    "memo": "Partial receipt",
    "items": [
      {
        "item_sku": "SKU-12345678",
        "quantity": 60
      }
    ],
    "revision": 3
  }),
});
const data = await response.json();

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}/transactions",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BOXHERO_API_TOKEN"],
    },
    json={
        "location_id": 47041,
        "transaction_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z",
        "memo": "Partial receipt",
        "items": [
            {
                "item_sku": "SKU-12345678",
                "quantity": 60,
            },
        ],
        "revision": 3,
    },
)
data = response.json()

POST /v1/returns/{return_id}/transactions HTTP/1.1
Host: rest.boxhero-app.com
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "location_id": 47041,
  "transaction_time": "2026-01-16T11:00:00.000Z",
  "memo": "Partial receipt",
  "items": [
    {
      "item_sku": "SKU-12345678",
      "quantity": 60
    }
  ],
  "revision": 3
}

Réponse

{
  "id": 14012345
}

{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/invalid-request",
  "title": "Request validation failed (including an unknown item_sku), or the team is not in LOCATION mode.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345/transactions"
}

{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/tokens/required",
  "title": "Missing API token. Provide a Bearer token in the Authorization header.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345/transactions",
  "example": "Bearer wqnot0dlysdg5vymubzi4kiv"
}

{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/not-found",
  "title": "No return with the given id was found in this team.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345/transactions"
}

{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/invalid-request",
  "title": "The supplied revision is stale.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345/transactions"
}

{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/invalid-request",
  "title": "Request body is too large.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345/transactions"
}

{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/too-many-requests",
  "title": "Too many requests.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345/transactions",
  "retryAfter": 60
}