Contracts API
Use the contracts API to create, update, or query a contract, including the business groups involved, key dates, the status of the contract, and the financial terms.
The URL to access contracts is: https://<instance>/api/contracts
See Integration Best Practices for more info.
Actions
The Contracts API allows you to:
| Verb | Path | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /api/contracts | create | Create contract |
| GET | /api/contracts | index | Query contracts |
| POST | /api/contracts/:id/legal_agreement | legal_agreement | Add or update legal legal_agreement file |
| PUT | /api/contracts/:id/legal_agreement | legal_agreement | Add or update legal legal_agreement file |
| GET | /api/contracts/:id/retrieve_legal_agreement | retrieve_legal_agreement | Get legal legal_agreement file |
| GET | /api/contracts/:id | show | Show contract |
| PATCH | /api/contracts/:id | update | Update contract |
| PUT | /api/contracts/:id | update | Update contract |
Elements
The following elements are available for the Contracts API:
| Element | Description | Required Field? | Unique? | Allowable Value | Api_In Field? | Api_Out Field? | Data Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| business-groups | business_groups | yes | yes | ContentGroup | |||
| contract-status | Status of the Contract | yes | draft | ||||
| contract-terms | contract_terms | yes | yes | ContractTerm | |||
| created-at | Automatically created by Coupa in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MMZ | yes | datetime | ||||
| created-by | User who created | yes | User | ||||
| currency | Contract Currency Code | yes | yes | Currency | |||
| current-approval | current_approval | yes | |||||
| default-account | default_account | yes | yes | Account | |||
| end-date | Expire Date | yes | yes | datetime | |||
| id | Coupa unique identifier | yes | integer | ||||
| is-default | Default Account for Supplier Invoice | yes | boolean | ||||
| is-default? | is_default? | yes | boolean | ||||
| legal-agreement-url | Optional url for the legal agreement | yes | yes | string | |||
| max-commit | Maximum Commit Amount | yes | yes | decimal | |||
| min-commit | Minimum Commit Amount | yes | yes | decimal | |||
| name | Contract Name | yes | yes | yes | yes | string(100) | |
| number | Contract Number | yes | yes | yes | yes | string(50) | |
| order-window-tz | order_window_tz | Africa/Abidjan, Africa/Accra, Africa/Addis_Ababa, Africa/Algiers, Africa/Asmara, Africa/Asmera, Africa/Bamako, Africa/Bangui, Africa/Banjul, Africa/Bissau, Africa/Blantyre, Africa/Brazzaville, Africa/Bujumbura, Africa/Cairo, Africa/Casablanca, Africa/Ceuta, Africa/Conakry, Africa/Dakar, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Douala, Africa/El_Aaiun, Africa/Freetown, Africa/Gaborone, Africa/Harare, Africa/Johannesburg, Africa/Juba, Africa/Kampala, Africa/Khartoum, Africa/Kigali, Africa/Kinshasa, Africa/Lagos, Africa/Libreville, Africa/Lome, Africa/Luanda, Africa/Lubumbashi, Africa/Lusaka, Africa/Malabo, Africa/Maputo, Africa/Maseru, Africa/Mbabane, Africa/Mogadishu, Africa/Monrovia, Africa/Nairobi, Africa/Ndjamena, Africa/Niamey, Africa/Nouakchott, Africa/Ouagadougou, Africa/Porto-Novo, Africa/Sao_Tome, Africa/Timbuktu, Africa/Tripoli, Africa/Tunis, Africa/Windhoek, America/Adak, America/Anchorage, America/Anguilla, America/Antigua, America/Araguaina, America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires, America/Argentina/Catamarca, America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia, America/Argentina/Cordoba, America/Argentina/Jujuy, America/Argentina/La_Rioja, America/Argentina/Mendoza, America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos, America/Argentina/Salta, America/Argentina/San_Juan, America/Argentina/San_Luis, America/Argentina/Tucuman, America/Argentina/Ushuaia, America/Aruba, America/Asuncion, America/Atikokan, America/Atka, America/Bahia, America/Bahia_Banderas, America/Barbados, America/Belem, America/Belize, America/Blanc-Sablon, America/Boa_Vista, America/Bogota, America/Boise, America/Buenos_Aires, America/Cambridge_Bay, America/Campo_Grande, America/Cancun, America/Caracas, America/Catamarca, America/Cayenne, America/Cayman, America/Chicago, America/Chihuahua, America/Coral_Harbour, America/Cordoba, America/Costa_Rica, America/Creston, America/Cuiaba, America/Curacao, America/Danmarkshavn, America/Dawson, America/Dawson_Creek, America/Denver, America/Detroit, America/Dominica, America/Edmonton, America/Eirunepe, America/El_Salvador, America/Ensenada, America/Fort_Nelson, America/Fort_Wayne, America/Fortaleza, America/Glace_Bay, America/Godthab, America/Goose_Bay, America/Grand_Turk, America/Grenada, America/Guadeloupe, America/Guatemala, America/Guayaquil, America/Guyana, America/Halifax, America/Havana, America/Hermosillo, America/Indiana/Indianapolis, America/Indiana/Knox, America/Indiana/Marengo, America/Indiana/Petersburg, America/Indiana/Tell_City, America/Indiana/Vevay, America/Indiana/Vincennes, America/Indiana/Winamac, America/Indianapolis, America/Inuvik, America/Iqaluit, America/Jamaica, America/Jujuy, America/Juneau, America/Kentucky/Louisville, America/Kentucky/Monticello, America/Knox_IN, America/Kralendijk, America/La_Paz, America/Lima, America/Los_Angeles, America/Louisville, America/Lower_Princes, America/Maceio, America/Managua, America/Manaus, America/Marigot, America/Martinique, America/Matamoros, America/Mazatlan, America/Mendoza, America/Menominee, America/Merida, America/Metlakatla, America/Mexico_City, America/Miquelon, America/Moncton, America/Monterrey, America/Montevideo, America/Montreal, America/Montserrat, America/Nassau, America/New_York, America/Nipigon, America/Nome, America/Noronha, America/North_Dakota/Beulah, America/North_Dakota/Center, America/North_Dakota/New_Salem, America/Ojinaga, America/Panama, America/Pangnirtung, America/Paramaribo, America/Phoenix, America/Port-au-Prince, America/Port_of_Spain, America/Porto_Acre, America/Porto_Velho, America/Puerto_Rico, America/Rainy_River, America/Rankin_Inlet, America/Recife, America/Regina, America/Resolute, America/Rio_Branco, America/Rosario, America/Santa_Isabel, America/Santarem, America/Santiago, America/Santo_Domingo, America/Sao_Paulo, America/Scoresbysund, America/Shiprock, America/Sitka, America/St_Barthelemy, America/St_Johns, America/St_Kitts, America/St_Lucia, America/St_Thomas, America/St_Vincent, America/Swift_Current, America/Tegucigalpa, America/Thule, America/Thunder_Bay, America/Tijuana, America/Toronto, America/Tortola, America/Vancouver, America/Virgin, America/Whitehorse, America/Winnipeg, America/Yakutat, America/Yellowknife, Antarctica/Casey, Antarctica/Davis, Antarctica/DumontDUrville, Antarctica/Macquarie, Antarctica/Mawson, Antarctica/McMurdo, Antarctica/Palmer, Antarctica/Rothera, Antarctica/South_Pole, Antarctica/Syowa, Antarctica/Troll, Antarctica/Vostok, Arctic/Longyearbyen, Asia/Aden, Asia/Almaty, Asia/Amman, Asia/Anadyr, Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Aqtobe, Asia/Ashgabat, Asia/Ashkhabad, Asia/Baghdad, Asia/Bahrain, Asia/Baku, Asia/Bangkok, Asia/Barnaul, Asia/Beirut, Asia/Bishkek, Asia/Brunei, Asia/Calcutta, Asia/Chita, Asia/Choibalsan, Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Chungking, Asia/Colombo, Asia/Dacca, Asia/Damascus, Asia/Dhaka, Asia/Dili, Asia/Dubai, Asia/Dushanbe, Asia/Gaza, Asia/Harbin, Asia/Hebron, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, Asia/Hong_Kong, Asia/Hovd, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Istanbul, Asia/Jakarta, Asia/Jayapura, Asia/Jerusalem, Asia/Kabul, Asia/Kamchatka, Asia/Karachi, Asia/Kashgar, Asia/Kathmandu, Asia/Katmandu, Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Kolkata, Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Asia/Kuching, Asia/Kuwait, Asia/Macao, Asia/Macau, Asia/Magadan, Asia/Makassar, Asia/Manila, Asia/Muscat, Asia/Nicosia, Asia/Novokuznetsk, Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Omsk, Asia/Oral, Asia/Phnom_Penh, Asia/Pontianak, Asia/Pyongyang, Asia/Qatar, Asia/Qyzylorda, Asia/Rangoon, Asia/Riyadh, Asia/Saigon, Asia/Sakhalin, Asia/Samarkand, Asia/Seoul, Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Singapore, Asia/Srednekolymsk, Asia/Taipei, Asia/Tashkent, Asia/Tbilisi, Asia/Tehran, Asia/Tel_Aviv, Asia/Thimbu, Asia/Thimphu, Asia/Tokyo, Asia/Tomsk, Asia/Ujung_Pandang, Asia/Ulaanbaatar, Asia/Ulan_Bator, Asia/Urumqi, Asia/Ust-Nera, Asia/Vientiane, Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Yakutsk, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Yerevan, Atlantic/Azores, Atlantic/Bermuda, Atlantic/Canary, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, Atlantic/Faeroe, Atlantic/Faroe, Atlantic/Jan_Mayen, Atlantic/Madeira, Atlantic/Reykjavik, Atlantic/South_Georgia, Atlantic/St_Helena, Atlantic/Stanley, Australia/ACT, Australia/Adelaide, Australia/Brisbane, Australia/Broken_Hill, Australia/Canberra, Australia/Currie, Australia/Darwin, Australia/Eucla, Australia/Hobart, Australia/LHI, Australia/Lindeman, Australia/Lord_Howe, Australia/Melbourne, Australia/NSW, Australia/North, Australia/Perth, Australia/Queensland, Australia/South, Australia/Sydney, Australia/Tasmania, Australia/Victoria, Australia/West, Australia/Yancowinna, Brazil/Acre, Brazil/DeNoronha, Brazil/East, Brazil/West, CET, CST6CDT, Canada/Atlantic, Canada/Central, Canada/East-Saskatchewan, Canada/Eastern, Canada/Mountain, Canada/Newfoundland, Canada/Pacific, Canada/Saskatchewan, Canada/Yukon, Chile/Continental, Chile/EasterIsland, Cuba, EET, EST, EST5EDT, Egypt, Eire, Etc/GMT, Etc/GMT+0, Etc/GMT+1, Etc/GMT+10, Etc/GMT+11, Etc/GMT+12, Etc/GMT+2, Etc/GMT+3, Etc/GMT+4, Etc/GMT+5, Etc/GMT+6, Etc/GMT+7, Etc/GMT+8, Etc/GMT+9, Etc/GMT-0, Etc/GMT-1, Etc/GMT-10, Etc/GMT-11, Etc/GMT-12, Etc/GMT-13, Etc/GMT-14, Etc/GMT-2, Etc/GMT-3, Etc/GMT-4, Etc/GMT-5, Etc/GMT-6, Etc/GMT-7, Etc/GMT-8, Etc/GMT-9, Etc/GMT0, Etc/Greenwich, Etc/UCT, Etc/UTC, Etc/Universal, Etc/Zulu, Europe/Amsterdam, Europe/Andorra, Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Athens, Europe/Belfast, Europe/Belgrade, Europe/Berlin, Europe/Bratislava, Europe/Brussels, Europe/Bucharest, Europe/Budapest, Europe/Busingen, Europe/Chisinau, Europe/Copenhagen, Europe/Dublin, Europe/Gibraltar, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Helsinki, Europe/Isle_of_Man, Europe/Istanbul, Europe/Jersey, Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Kiev, Europe/Kirov, Europe/Lisbon, Europe/Ljubljana, Europe/London, Europe/Luxembourg, Europe/Madrid, Europe/Malta, Europe/Mariehamn, Europe/Minsk, Europe/Monaco, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Nicosia, Europe/Oslo, Europe/Paris, Europe/Podgorica, Europe/Prague, Europe/Riga, Europe/Rome, Europe/Samara, Europe/San_Marino, Europe/Sarajevo, Europe/Simferopol, Europe/Skopje, Europe/Sofia, Europe/Stockholm, Europe/Tallinn, Europe/Tirane, Europe/Tiraspol, Europe/Ulyanovsk, Europe/Uzhgorod, Europe/Vaduz, Europe/Vatican, Europe/Vienna, Europe/Vilnius, Europe/Volgograd, Europe/Warsaw, Europe/Zagreb, Europe/Zaporozhye, Europe/Zurich, GB, GB-Eire, GMT, GMT+0, GMT-0, GMT0, Greenwich, HST, Hongkong, Iceland, Indian/Antananarivo, Indian/Chagos, Indian/Christmas, Indian/Cocos, Indian/Comoro, Indian/Kerguelen, Indian/Mahe, Indian/Maldives, Indian/Mauritius, Indian/Mayotte, Indian/Reunion, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Kwajalein, Libya, MET, MST, MST7MDT, Mexico/BajaNorte, Mexico/BajaSur, Mexico/General, NZ, NZ-CHAT, Navajo, PRC, PST8PDT, Pacific/Apia, Pacific/Auckland, Pacific/Bougainville, Pacific/Chatham, Pacific/Chuuk, Pacific/Easter, Pacific/Efate, Pacific/Enderbury, Pacific/Fakaofo, Pacific/Fiji, Pacific/Funafuti, Pacific/Galapagos, Pacific/Gambier, Pacific/Guadalcanal, Pacific/Guam, Pacific/Honolulu, Pacific/Johnston, Pacific/Kiritimati, Pacific/Kosrae, Pacific/Kwajalein, Pacific/Majuro, Pacific/Marquesas, Pacific/Midway, Pacific/Nauru, Pacific/Niue, Pacific/Norfolk, Pacific/Noumea, Pacific/Pago_Pago, Pacific/Palau, Pacific/Pitcairn, Pacific/Pohnpei, Pacific/Ponape, Pacific/Port_Moresby, Pacific/Rarotonga, Pacific/Saipan, Pacific/Samoa, Pacific/Tahiti, Pacific/Tarawa, Pacific/Tongatapu, Pacific/Truk, Pacific/Wake, Pacific/Wallis, Pacific/Yap, Poland, Portugal, ROC, ROK, Singapore, Turkey, UCT, US/Alaska, US/Aleutian, US/Arizona, US/Central, US/East-Indiana, US/Eastern, US/Hawaii, US/Indiana-Starke, US/Michigan, US/Mountain, US/Pacific, US/Pacific-New, US/Samoa, UTC, Universal, W-SU, WET, Zulu, UTC, International Date Line West, Midway Island, American Samoa, Hawaii, Alaska, Pacific Time (US & Canada), Tijuana, Mountain Time (US & Canada), Arizona, Chihuahua, Mazatlan, Central Time (US & Canada), Saskatchewan, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Central America, Eastern Time (US & Canada), Indiana (East), Bogota, Lima, Quito, Atlantic Time (Canada), Caracas, La Paz, Santiago, Newfoundland, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Georgetown, Greenland, Mid-Atlantic, Azores, Cape Verde Is., Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London, Casablanca, Monrovia, Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Zagreb, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, West Central Africa, Bucharest, Cairo, Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius, Athens, Istanbul, Minsk, Jerusalem, Harare, Pretoria, Kaliningrad, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Samara, Kuwait, Riyadh, Nairobi, Baghdad, Tehran, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Kabul, Ekaterinburg, Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kathmandu, Astana, Dhaka, Sri Jayawardenepura, Almaty, Novosibirsk, Rangoon, Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Krasnoyarsk, Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei, Perth, Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar, Seoul, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, Yakutsk, Darwin, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Vladivostok, Guam, Port Moresby, Magadan, Srednekolymsk, Solomon Is., New Caledonia, Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is., Auckland, Wellington, Nuku'alofa, Tokelau Is., Chatham Is., Samoa | yes | yes | string | ||
| owner | Contract owner | yes | User | ||||
| po-message | Order Windows PO Message | yes | yes | string | |||
| preferred-flag | preferred_flag | yes | yes | boolean | |||
| requisition-message | Order Windows Requisition Message | yes | yes | string | |||
| savings-pct | Savings Achieved through Contracts Pricing | yes | yes | decimal | |||
| schedule | schedule | yes | yes | ||||
| start-date | Start Date | yes | yes | yes | datetime | ||
| status | Status of the Contract | yes | yes | string | |||
| submitter | User who submitted the contract for approval | yes | User | ||||
| supplier | Supplier Name | yes | yes | yes | Supplier | ||
| supplier-account | Supplier Account Number | yes | yes | string | |||
| supplier-invoiceable | Supplier Can Invoice Directly | yes | boolean | ||||
| supplier-invoiceable? | supplier_invoiceable? | yes | boolean | ||||
| terms | terms | yes | yes | text | |||
| updated-at | Automatically created by Coupa in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MMZ | yes | datetime | ||||
| updated-by | User who updated | yes | User | ||||
| use-order-windows | Use Order Windows | yes | yes | boolean | |||
| version | version | yes | yes | integer |
- When dealing with large data sets of contracts, always limit your GET with some criteria.
- The content groups and categories must already exist in the system.