Zoho Books: Error 7008: There are no contact persons associated with this Invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-error-7008-there-are-no-contact-persons-associated-with-this-invoice.html

07 March 2024 and there was a primary contact on the customer record. This is from within ZohoCreator, requesting for an invoice in ZohoBooks to be sent. How? So the key here is that there were no contact persons on the customer record. Instead, when building the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoBooks: Error Code 15: Ensure Billing Address has less than 100 charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-code-15-ensure-billing-address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

18 September 2023 into this issue before; but sending a billing/shipping address included in a request to create or update an estimate in ZohoBooks will fail... Why? I have a function to push a ZohoCRM quote to a ZohoBooks estimate and a client asked that the address on...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoBooks: Stripe Terminal Integrationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-stripe-terminal-integration.html

16 March 2023 A quick article on some code added to a button in ZohoBooks off the invoice module to initiate your Stripe terminal to take a payment. Why? Just to make it easy on the staff at a counter or on the phone. They bring up the invoie in ZohoBooks, click on...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks API: Rounding the cents or pennies when creating an invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-api-half-a-cent-or-penny-off-when-creating-an-invoice.html

20 March 2025 but in this case it is the rate that gets rounded. The numbers at the end still need to match what's in CRM and with ZohoBooks rounding differently can make cent/penny errors into 100s of dollar/pound errors. Zoho CRM has a fun way of rounding which...

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Zoho Books: Estimates/Quotes: Accept & Decline Buttons on Templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-estimates-quotes-accept-decline-buttons-on-template.html

04 November 2024 An article on adding an accept and decline button on the estimate (aka Quote) notification template within ZohoBooks. Why? The use-case is simply that my client wants to make it easier for their customers to accept or decline a quote. Sure there's a...

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ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks: Please ensure that the shipping_address has less than 100 characters.https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-please-ensure-that-the-shipping_address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

22 September 2021 I don't know how to create a shipping address and retrieve its ID then here's the method I use: Create the sales order in ZohoBooks (either in Zoho Deluge or however you're doing it), then Retrieve the ID of the created Sales Order (captured in...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoAnalytics & ZohoBooks: Custom Related List from Analyticshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoanalytics-zohobooks-custom-related-list-from-analytics.html

09 July 2024 A quick article to document 2 features in deluge code: a custom related list in ZohoBooks, and a reminder on how to read a table from ZohoAnalytics. Why? My use-case here is that we have a client who uses their purchase orders and sales orders as part...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Books: Generate Bank Text File for Downloadhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-generate-bank-text-file-for-download.html

02 October 2023 This is an article to document how we created a button off a Bill record in ZohoBooks which generates a text file to be sent to a bank and downloads it to the staff member's workstation. Why? Why is this a challenge? The file contains bank details and...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge - Get Refresh/Access Token API v2https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-refresh-access-token.html

17 July 2019 or reformat the resulting URL // // get Grant Token v_EndPoint = "https://accounts.zoho.com/oauth/v2/auth"; v_Scope = "ZohoBooks.contacts.ALL,ZohoBooks.invoices.ALL,ZohoBooks.purchaseorders.ALL"; v_State = "testing"; v_ResponseType = "code"; v_Access =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Creator: Download uploaded file and attach to Sales Order in Zoho Bookshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-uploaded-file-and-attach-to-sales-order-in-zoho-books.html

15 May 2020 name (will be lowercased) but descriptive. For this test I will call it "myconnector". Ensure that as a minimum, the scope ZohoBooks.salesorders.CREATE is ticked. Click on "Authorize" Read the notice saying Creator would like access to bla bla bla and...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Books: System Values Mapshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-system-values-maps.html

07 November 2023 A collection of code snippets I seem to be regularly using to generate a dynamic map of system values held in a ZohoBooks instance. Why? Rather than hard-coding and having a ton of if..then statements, I can feed these maps a textual value and it...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho CRM & Zoho Books: Get SalesPersonshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-books-get-salespersons.html

30 August 2021 spend so long in trying to find sales persons in Zoho Books. Why? My use case is that I want to create a Sales Order in ZohoBooks based on one in ZohoCRM and wanted to assign the sales person. How? So after an hour or so trying to get the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM & Zoho Inventory: Upload Image to Item Record using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-inventory-upload-image-to-item-record.html

21 June 2022 the endpoint will depend on your datacenter (eg. COM or EU), and lastly the connection "joel_books" is my connection to ZohoBooks: // // declare ID of item in Zoho Inventory v_InventoryId = 123456789012345678; // // your organization ID (optional)...

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ZohoCRM Webhook: Create ZohoInventory Records from an eBay orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-webhook-create-zohoinventory-records-from-an-ebay-order.html

27 April 2023 in Zoho Inventory. We're using a ZohoCRM webhook, because CRM webhooks run more reliably then the ones we have found in ZohoBooks and other Zoho Apps. Prerequisites: Setup a connection called "joel_books" that has the necessary scopes to view taxes and...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Books / Inventory: Get Item Rate from a Price Book/Listhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-get-item-rate-from-a-price-book-list.html

23 May 2024 A quick article on how to get the pricebook entry using Zoho Deluge for a specific product in your ZohoBooks or ZohoInventory instance. Why? This took me the best part of an hour to determine by going through forum posts from 7 years to 2 years ago. The...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge: Setup an API Connection for InvokeURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-setup-an-api-connection-for-invokeurl.html

12 August 2020 information for estimates/sales orders/invoices). There are some quietly documented scopes granting absolute access: ZohoBooks.fullaccess.all ZohoInventory.FullAccess.all ZohoSubscriptions.fullaccess.all Other Links Zoho Documentation: Connections Zoho...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho CRM: Permission Denied for Quote Conversion Mappinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-permission-denied-for-quote-conversion-mapping.html

02 September 2021 sales team would only create sales orders in CRM and don't use the invoice module (that's for their finance team using ZohoBooks), we disabled the CRM Invoice module. How? Therein lies the reason. For the quote conversion mapping, it needs the CRM...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Books: Display Sales Order Shipping Address on Package Sliphttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-display-sales-order-shipping-address-on-package-slip.html

07 October 2021 ${CONTACT.CONTACT_COUNTRY} ${CONTACT.CONTACT_ADDRESS_PHONE} Done Source(s): The brilliant support at ZohoBooks!

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Zoho Inventory: Mark a package slip as delivered and shippedhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-inventory-mark-a-package-slip-as-delivered-and-shipped.html

14 July 2022 ZohoInventory.packages.READ ZohoInventory.shipmentorders.CREATE ZohoInventory.shipmentorders.READ // // init (put your own ZohoBooks/ZohoInventory Org ID v_BooksOrgID = 123456789; // // check the form was ticked and there is a package ID specified...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Books/Inventory: Trigger a workflow when an invoice has been paidhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-trigger-a-workflow-when-an-invoice-has-been-paid.html

17 August 2022 work despite being as per the documentation (see sources below). Here's the code for our function; note it is within ZohoBooks and not ZohoInventory (moved) and the connection "zbooks" has a fullaccess scope: // // initialize v_PaymentMode = "";...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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