Get all Expenses

Returns a record of all expenses within your ConstructionOnline company account

get https://api.constructiononline.com/Expenses

This endpoint allows users to extract a record of all expenses from their ConstructionOnline company account.

Requests

Sample URL request:

  • https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Expenses

Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:

cURL

# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key

curl https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Expenses -u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'

C#

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
{apikey} with your provided API key */

public string GetData(string endpoint) {
string username = "{username}";
string password = "{password}";
string apikey = "{apikey}";
HttpResponseMessage response = null;
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
    using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
        client.Timeout = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 30);
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic",
System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apikey);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
        response = client.GetAsync(endpoint).Result;
    }
    return response?.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
}
MessageBox.Show(GetData("api/Expenses"));

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key

import base64, requests, json
apikey = "{apikey}"
username = "{username}"
password = "{password}"
def makeRequest(endpoint):
url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
userPass = username + ":" + password
headers = {
"APIKey": apikey,
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)

#Main Program
print(makeRequest("api/Expenses"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
{apikey} with your provided API key */

username = '{username}';
password = '{password}';
apikey = '{apikey}';
function makeRequest(endpoint) {
    auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
    var myHeaders = new Headers();
    myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
    myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
    myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");
    var requestOptions = {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: myHeaders,
        redirect: 'follow'
   };
    fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
        .then(response => response.text())
        .then(result => console.log(result))
        .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
    return response;
};makeRequest("api/Expenses");

Responses

green 200: Success

A successful request will return a 200 response with the requested expenses in the body, as seen below. Definitions for all returned properties can be found here.

{   "ID": 27,
    "TITLE": "Site Supervisor Labor - September",
    "COMPANY_ID": 23573,
    "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
    "DATE_CREATED": "2024-09-23T08:16:42.517",
    "CREATED_BY": 885048,
    "SUBTOTAL": 15962.0,
    "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
    "TAX_TYPE": 0,
    "TOTAL": 15962.0,
    "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
    "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
    "PAID": false,
    "VENDOR_ID": 1055308,
    "LMOD": "2024-09-23T13:16:42.517",
    "LMOD_BY": 885048,
    "NOTES": "",
    "TRADE": 0,
    "RECEIPT_STATUS": 105770,
    "IS_EXPENSE": true,
    "TRAFFIC_COLOR": 0,
    "ITEMS": [
        {
            "ID": 52,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Hourly Wage",
            "QTY": 160.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 45.0,
            "SUBTOTAL": 7200.0,
            "TOTAL": 7200.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        },
        {
            "ID": 53,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Overtime Pay",
            "QTY": 20.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 67.5,
            "SUBTOTAL": 1350.0,
            "TOTAL": 1350.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        },
        {
            "ID": 54,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Per Diem",
            "QTY": 20.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 50.0,
            "SUBTOTAL": 1000.0,
            "TOTAL": 1000.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        },
        {
            "ID": 55,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Travel Expenses",
            "QTY": 200.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 0.56,
            "SUBTOTAL": 112.0,
            "TOTAL": 112.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        },
        {
            "ID": 56,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Accommodation Costs",
            "QTY": 20.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 120.0,
            "SUBTOTAL": 2400.0,
            "TOTAL": 2400.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        },
        {
            "ID": 57,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Administrative Costs",
            "QTY": 20.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 45.0,
            "SUBTOTAL": 900.0,
            "TOTAL": 900.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        },
        {
            "ID": 58,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Insurance",
            "QTY": 1.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 1000.0,
            "SUBTOTAL": 1000.0,
            "TOTAL": 1000.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        },
        {
            "ID": 59,
            "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
            "RECEIPT_ID": 27,
            "NAME": "Equipment / Tools",
            "QTY": 20.0,
            "UNIT": 266,
            "RATE": 100.0,
            "SUBTOTAL": 2000.0,
            "TOTAL": 2000.0,
            "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
            "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_BILLED_NO_TAX": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
            "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0
        }
    ]
}

red 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request.

red 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

 red 500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: Sep 24, 2024