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# Skip a recurring expense

> Answers one that is due: not this time. Nothing is filed, and it moves to its next date. 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/{recurringId}/skip
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/{recurringId}/skip:
    post:
      tags:
        - Expense setup
      summary: Skip a recurring expense
      description: >-
        Answers one that is due: not this time. Nothing is filed, and it moves
        to its next date. Refused with `business_details_required` until the
        store has its business details.


        Needs the `expenses.write` permission (Change Expenses).
      operationId: recurringExpenses.skip
      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
        - name: recurringId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: The recurring expense.
          schema:
            type: string
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: It worked.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  success:
                    type: boolean
                  message:
                    nullable: true
                  code:
                    nullable: true
                  data:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      recurring:
                        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
                      expense:
                        nullable: true
              example:
                success: true
                message: null
                code: null
                data:
                  recurring:
                    id: 6b15ac7a-d376-43b3-a9a0-acc1c1ace8cb
                    payee: Cloudflare
                    note: ''
                    category: null
                    method: card
                    reference: ''
                    amount: 25
                    cadence: month
                    onDay: 28
                    nextOn: '2026-11-28'
                    asks: false
                    paused: false
                    waiting: false
                    updatedAt: '2026-10-22T16:20:20.068Z'
                  expense: null
        '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.skip("RECURRING_ID");
        - lang: php
          label: PHP
          source: |
            <?php

            require 'vendor/autoload.php';

            $shoply = new Shoply\Client(['apiKey' => getenv('SHOPLY_API_KEY')]);

            $result = $shoply->recurringExpenses->skip('RECURRING_ID');
        - lang: python
          label: Python
          source: |
            import shoply

            client = shoply.Client()  # reads SHOPLY_API_KEY

            result = client.recurringExpenses.skip("RECURRING_ID")
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_...`

````

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