POST/businesses/{bid}/documents/{id}/issue

Issue a document

POST /businesses/{bid}/documents/{id}/issue

Requires the documents scope.

The point of no return. Assigns the next gapless number, freezes a full snapshot, renders the PDF and signs it.

Totals are recomputed server-side from the frozen lines, so what comes back is authoritative. Issuing twice is safe and returns the same document with deduped: true. If rendering hiccups the document is still legally issued and prints answers pdf_pending until a background retry finishes; numbering never rolls back.

Path parameters

Name	Type		Description
`bid`	string	required	Business id, from `POST /businesses`.
`id`	string	required	Document id.

Body (optional)

Field	Type		Description
`branding`	Branding		Appearance of the rendered PDF. Stored once per business; a logo is stored as a file and referenced by hash, never re-frozen into each document.

Response

201: { "ok": true, … }

Field	Type		Description
`ok`	boolean	required
`document`	Document	required	A draft is freely mutable. An issued document is immutable forever, blocked at the database engine, not merely in application code.
`deduped`	boolean

Errors: 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 422, 429. Every failure answers { "error": …, "reason": … }. Branch on reason.

const res = await fetch(`${BASE}/businesses/${BID}/documents/${DOC_ID}/issue`, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'X-Api-Key': KEY, }, }) const data = await res.json() if (!data.ok) throw new Error(data.reason)