Account Validation Rules API (/account_validation_rules)

Use the account validation API to set rules to manage the different chart of accounts.

Use the account validation API to set rules to manage the different chart of accounts.

The URL to access account validation rules is: https://<instance>/api/account_validation_rules

See Integration Best Practices for more info.

Actions

The Account Validation Rules API allows you to:

Verb Path Action Description
POST /api/account_validation_rules create Create account validation
GET /api/account_validation_rules index Query account validations
GET /api/account_validation_rules/:id show Show account validation
PUT /api/account_validation_rules/:id update Update account validation

Elements 

The following elements are available for the Account Validation Rules API:

Element Description Required Field? Unique? Allowable Value Api_In Field? Api_Out Field? Data Type
account-type account-type       yes yes AccountType
active

Is the item given for this supplier & contract active? and if NOT then DELETE

      yes yes boolean
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
description

Item desciption

 

yes     yes yes string(255)
error-message Error message to be displayed yes     yes yes string(255)
id Coupa unique identifier         yes integer
name

Item name

yes yes   yes yes string(100)
segment-10-condition segment_10_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-10-max segment_10_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-10-min segment_10_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-11-condition segment_11_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-11-max segment_11_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-11-min segment_11_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-12-condition segment_12_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-12-max segment_12_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-12-min segment_12_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-13-condition segment_13_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-13-max segment_13_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-13-min segment_13_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-14-condition segment_14_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-14-max segment_14_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-14-min segment_14_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-15-condition segment_15_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-15-max segment_15_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-15-min segment_15_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-16-condition segment_16_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-16-max segment_16_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-16-min segment_16_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-17-condition segment_17_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-17-max segment_17_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-17-min segment_17_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-18-condition segment_18_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-18-max segment_18_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-18-min segment_18_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-19-condition segment_19_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-19-max segment_19_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-19-min segment_19_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-1-condition segment_1_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-1-max segment_1_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-1-min segment_1_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-20-condition segment_20_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-20-max segment_20_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-20-min segment_20_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-2-condition segment_2_condtion custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-2-max segment_2_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-2-min segment_2_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-3-condition segment_3_condtion custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-3-max segment_3_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-3-min segment_3_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-4-condition segment_4_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-4-max segment_4_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-4-min segment_4_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-5-condition segment_5_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-5-max segment_5_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-5-min segment_5_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-6-condition segment_6_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-6-max segment_6_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-6-min segment_6_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-7-condition segment_7_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-7-max segment_7_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-7-min segment_7_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-8-condition segment_8_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-8-max segment_8_max custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-8-min segment_8_min custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-9-condition segment_9_condition custom condition for the segment       yes yes string
segment-9-max segment_9_max is custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
segment-9-min segment_9_min is custom rule for the segment       yes yes string(255)
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
Note
  • When dealing with large data sets of contracts, always limit your GET with some criteria.
  • ** precision, scale
  • The accounts should already exist in the system.
  • Create a chart of accounts where the segments are defined dynamically before creating any account validation rules.

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