> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.shoply.gg/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a recurring expense > Adds an expense that comes round. When it falls due it waits to be answered: paid, or skipped this once. Refused with `business_details_required` until the store has its business details. Needs the `expenses.write` permission (Change Expenses). ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /stores/{storeId}/recurring-expenses openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Shoply API version: '1' description: >- Everything a store's own server can do with a secret API key: its catalogue, orders, customers, marketing, finance and the rest of what the dashboard does. And the Customer API, which a buyer's own device asks with a token of theirs. servers: - url: https://api.shoply.gg/v1 security: - apiKey: [] tags: - name: API key - name: Store - name: Domain - name: Payment methods - name: Analytics - name: Storefronts - name: Storefront code - name: Payment Routing - name: Custom payment methods - name: Products - name: Product pictures - name: Stock - name: Categories - name: Upsells - name: Subscriptions - name: Orders - name: Invoices - name: Reviews - name: Coupons - name: Coupon categories - name: Coupon pop-up - name: Sales - name: Blog - name: Search settings - name: Redirects - name: Sitemap - name: Cart Recovery - name: Email Marketing - name: Email Templates - name: Customers - name: Affiliates - name: Support Tickets - name: Blacklist - name: Fraud protection - name: Disputes - name: Finance - name: Tax - name: Expenses - name: Expense setup - name: API requests - name: Webhook endpoints - name: Webhook deliveries - name: Customer API paths: /stores/{storeId}/recurring-expenses: post: tags: - Expense setup summary: Create a recurring expense description: >- Adds an expense that comes round. When it falls due it waits to be answered: paid, or skipped this once. Refused with `business_details_required` until the store has its business details. Needs the `expenses.write` permission (Change Expenses). operationId: recurringExpenses.create parameters: - name: storeId in: path required: true description: >- The store's ID. A key reaches the store it was made in: `GET /key` answers which. schema: type: string - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey' requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: payee: type: string description: Who is paid, up to 120 characters. amount: type: number description: How much each time, in the store's currency. cadence: type: string description: How often it comes round. enum: - month - year nextOn: type: string description: The day it is next due, as `YYYY-MM-DD`. method: type: string description: How it is paid. enum: - card - bank - crypto - paypal - cash - other categoryId: type: string description: The expense category it is filed in. note: type: string description: A note, up to 255 characters. reference: type: string description: A reference, up to 160 characters. required: - payee - amount - cadence - nextOn responses: '201': description: It worked. content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: success: type: boolean message: nullable: true code: nullable: true data: type: object properties: id: type: string payee: type: string note: type: string category: nullable: true method: type: string reference: type: string amount: type: integer cadence: type: string onDay: type: integer nextOn: type: string asks: type: boolean paused: type: boolean waiting: type: boolean updatedAt: type: string example: success: true message: null code: null data: id: 6b15ac7a-d376-43b3-a9a0-acc1c1ace8cb payee: Cloudflare note: '' category: null method: card reference: '' amount: 25 cadence: month onDay: 27 nextOn: '2026-10-27' asks: false paused: false waiting: false updatedAt: '2026-10-22T16:20:20.057Z' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/NoKey' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/NotAllowed' '404': $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound' '422': $ref: '#/components/responses/Refused' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooMany' x-codeSamples: - lang: javascript label: Node.js source: | import Shoply from "@shoplygg/node"; const shoply = new Shoply({ apiKey: process.env.SHOPLY_API_KEY }); const result = await shoply.recurringExpenses.create({ payee: "...", amount: 1, cadence: "month", nextOn: "...", }); - lang: php label: PHP source: | getenv('SHOPLY_API_KEY')]); $result = $shoply->recurringExpenses->create([ 'payee' => '...', 'amount' => 1, 'cadence' => 'month', 'nextOn' => '...', ]); - lang: python label: Python source: > import shoply client = shoply.Client() # reads SHOPLY_API_KEY result = client.recurringExpenses.create(payee="...", amount=1, cadence="month", nextOn="...") components: parameters: IdempotencyKey: name: Idempotency-Key in: header required: false description: >- A word of your own for this one change, up to 180 letters, digits, dots, dashes, underscores and colons. Sent again with the same key, the request is not carried out twice: the first answer comes back, with `Idempotent-Replay: true`. schema: type: string responses: NoKey: description: >- No API key was sent, or the one sent is not a live key: `api_key_required`, `invalid_api_key`. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' NotAllowed: description: >- The key is real and may not do this: `missing_scope` (with `requiredScope`), `ip_not_allowed`, `account_unavailable`, or `dashboard_only` for something only a person in the dashboard may do. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' NotFound: description: >- There is no such thing in this store: `not_found`. A store that is not the key's own is answered the same way. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' Refused: description: >- The request was understood and not carried out. `validation_failed` says what is wrong with each field under `errors`; other codes are the route's own. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' TooMany: description: >- The key has used up its budget for now: `rate_limited`. `Retry-After` says how many seconds to wait. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' schemas: Refusal: type: object properties: success: type: boolean example: false message: type: string description: What is wrong, in words for a person. code: type: string description: What is wrong, as a word that does not change. data: nullable: true errors: type: object description: >- For `validation_failed`: what is wrong with each field, by the field's name. additionalProperties: type: string required: - success - message - code securitySchemes: apiKey: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- A secret API key, made under Developers in the dashboard: `Authorization: Bearer shoply_sk_...` ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.