Creating an invoice from Service

[Jake]

I have a two part question.   

First,  I'm trying to figure out the workflow for creating a service from invoice.  My current workflow in my app is the following:

Create user -> add Credit card data -> create a service -> create the invoice -> pay the invoice with the save CC data ->update the service to active.  

My question is if I create a service will the system automatically create an invoice when the CRON is run or should I do it through the API.  The way I am currently doing it seems like a lot of calls and I would prefer to lower the amount of calls I am making.  Is there a better way?

 

Secondly I am trying to create an invoice from a service but it is giving me an error 

$BlestaCreateData    = array(
                                    
                                        'client_id'         => 23,
                                        'services_ids'      => array(26),
                                        'currency'          => 'USD',
                                        'due_date'          => date("c"),
                                        'allow_pro_rata'    => false, 
                                        'services_renew'    => true,
                                    );
                                    
      
                                    $response =  $this->blestaapi->post('invoices', 'createFromServices', $BlestaCreateData);
                                    echo '<pre>';
                                  
                                    $RetVal = $response;
                                    
                                    print_r($response->response());
                                    print_r($response->errors());

The error is 

 

Class Object
(
    [error] => stdClass Object
        (
            [message] => An unexpected error occured.
            [response] => Internal error: Failed to retrieve the default value
        )

)

What am I missing?

[Jono]

The answer to you first question is no, the cron will not automatically invoice created services, though it does automatically invoice renewing service.

 

For your second question, it is trying to default the service_ids parameter since you have accidentally written services_ids.

[Jake]

OK...I updated that but now it gives me the following error:

 

 [lines[0][description]] => stdClass Object
        (
            [empty] => Please enter a line item description.
        )

The documentation does not show that I need to provide that information.  How am I supposed to add that info?