> ## 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 an invoice > Raises an invoice: an order for a buyer to pay, with a page to pay it on. This is how a script makes an order. The answer has the order's ID (`orderId`) and the page it is paid on (`payUrl`), which you can hand to the buyer yourself. With `send` on, the invoice is also emailed to the buyer with its PDF. A store may email one invoice in five minutes, so a script that makes many leaves `send` off and delivers the link itself. A product line costs what the product costs. For any other price, add a line of your own with a `description` and a `unitPrice`. An invoice carries no automatic tax. A store may hold up to 2,000 unpaid invoices at once. Needs the `invoices.write` permission (Raise Invoices). It makes an order, and is counted against a budget of its own: 60 a minute for each key. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /stores/{storeId}/invoices 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}/invoices: post: tags: - Invoices summary: Create an invoice description: >- Raises an invoice: an order for a buyer to pay, with a page to pay it on. This is how a script makes an order. The answer has the order's ID (`orderId`) and the page it is paid on (`payUrl`), which you can hand to the buyer yourself. With `send` on, the invoice is also emailed to the buyer with its PDF. A store may email one invoice in five minutes, so a script that makes many leaves `send` off and delivers the link itself. A product line costs what the product costs. For any other price, add a line of your own with a `description` and a `unitPrice`. An invoice carries no automatic tax. A store may hold up to 2,000 unpaid invoices at once. Needs the `invoices.write` permission (Raise Invoices). It makes an order, and is counted against a budget of its own: 60 a minute for each key. operationId: invoices.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: email: type: string description: The buyer's email address. example: buyer@example.com name: type: string description: >- The buyer's name, up to 120 characters. Printed on the invoice. note: type: string description: A note printed on the invoice, up to 1,000 characters. dueDays: type: integer description: 'How many days the buyer has to pay: 1 to 30.' default: 7 gateways: type: array description: >- The payment methods the buyer may pay with, by their names in the payment methods list. At least one the store has switched on. items: type: string example: - stripe items: type: array description: >- What is being charged for, up to 50 lines. Each is a product from the catalogue (`productId`, `variantId`, `quantity`) or a line of your own (`description`, `quantity`, `unitPrice`). items: type: object properties: productId: type: string description: A product of the store. variantId: type: string description: The variant of it being bought. description: type: string description: >- A line of your own: what it is for, up to 255 characters. unitPrice: type: number description: 'A line of your own: its price for one.' quantity: type: integer description: How many. example: 1 required: - quantity send: type: boolean description: Whether to email the invoice to the buyer now. default: true required: - email - gateways - items responses: '200': description: It worked. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Envelope' '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.invoices.create({ email: "buyer@example.com", gateways: ["stripe"], items: [], }); - lang: php label: PHP source: | getenv('SHOPLY_API_KEY')]); $result = $shoply->invoices->create([ 'email' => 'buyer@example.com', 'gateways' => ['stripe'], 'items' => [], ]); - lang: python label: Python source: > import shoply client = shoply.Client() # reads SHOPLY_API_KEY result = client.invoices.create(email="buyer@example.com", gateways=["stripe"], items=[]) 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 schemas: Envelope: type: object properties: success: type: boolean description: Whether the request did what was asked. message: type: - string - 'null' description: Words for a person. Empty when it worked. code: type: - string - 'null' description: >- Why it was refused, as a word that does not change. Empty when it worked. data: description: 'The thing asked for: an object, or for a list its rows.' pages: type: integer description: 'For a paged list: how many pages there are.' total: type: integer description: 'For a paged list: how many rows there are in all.' meta: type: object description: Anything else the route answers beside the thing itself. required: - success - message - code - data 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 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' 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.