Acrual API

Name: Acrual API API
Brand: Acrual API
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★ Only Publicly Available SpecFinanceAccountingbearer46 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Manage construction and manufacturing back-office records — clients, jobs, quotes, invoices, purchase orders, time entries, and webhooks — through Acrual's REST API.

Quickstart

Get started with Acrual API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"create an invoice in Acrual"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Acrual API API.

Create and update construction or manufacturing jobs and attach files via /v1.0/jobs and /v1.0/jobs/{id}/files

Issue invoices and purchase orders linked to jobs and clients through /v1.0/invoices and /v1.0/purchase-orders

Capture and reconcile employee time entries against specific jobs via /v1.0/time-entries

Generate, send, and convert quotes into jobs through the /v1.0/quotes resource

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Start building with Acrual API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Spec

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Acrual API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Acrual API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Acrual is a business management platform for manufacturing and construction businesses that exposes endpoints for clients, employees, jobs, quotes, invoices, purchase orders, time entries, suppliers, and variations. The API supports webhook subscriptions and third-party integration handshakes, so back-office tools can react to changes in jobs and invoices in near real time. Authentication uses bearer tokens, and the spec covers 46 operations across 11 resource groups under the /v1.0 path prefix.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Acrual API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Construction job invoicing automation

Trades and construction businesses use Acrual to track jobs from quote to completion, then invoice the client. An agent can read job status from /v1.0/jobs/{id}, generate an invoice through /v1.0/invoices when the job is marked complete, and attach the invoice to the job folder. This removes the manual step of bookkeepers re-keying job data into separate accounting software.

Fetch the job at /v1.0/jobs/123, confirm status is 'completed', then POST a new invoice to /v1.0/invoices referencing that job and its client

Time entry reconciliation

Operations managers reconcile timesheets weekly, matching employee time entries to specific jobs and validating against quoted hours. An agent can pull time entries via /v1.0/time-entries, group by job, compare totals to the quote on /v1.0/quotes/{id}, and flag overruns. This shortens a half-day reconciliation pass to a few API calls.

List time entries from the last 7 days for job 456, sum total hours, and compare to the quoted hours on the linked quote

Webhook-driven accounting sync

Businesses that mirror Acrual records into a separate accounting tool register webhooks on /v1.0/hooks for invoice and purchase order events. An agent can subscribe to invoice.created and purchase_order.updated, then push each payload into Xero or QuickBooks. The integration handshake endpoints under /v1.0/integrations also let agents complete OAuth-style links to external systems.

Register a webhook on /v1.0/hooks for the 'invoice.paid' event and route incoming payloads to a downstream accounting endpoint

AI agent build assistant

Developers building agent assistants for trade businesses use Jentic to expose Acrual operations alongside accounting and scheduling APIs. Through Jentic's intent search, an agent can find 'create a job' or 'issue an invoice' without browsing Acrual docs, and the bearer token is stored in Jentic's vault rather than handled by the agent. Integration moves from days of manual wiring to under an hour.

Search Jentic for 'create an invoice in Acrual', load the operation schema, and execute it with values for client_id, job_id, and line items

Key Endpoints

46 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for acrual api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1.0/jobs

List jobs

POST

/v1.0/jobs

Create a job

POST

/v1.0/invoices

Issue an invoice

GET

/v1.0/quotes

List quotes

POST

/v1.0/hooks

GET

/v1.0/time-entries

List time entries

GET

/v1.0/clients

List clients

GET

/v1.0/purchase-orders

List purchase orders

GET

/v1.0/jobs

List jobs

POST

/v1.0/jobs

Create a job

POST

/v1.0/invoices

Issue an invoice

GET

/v1.0/quotes

List quotes

POST

/v1.0/hooks

GET

/v1.0/time-entries

List time entries

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Acrual bearer tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive scoped execution handles, so the raw bearer token never appears in prompt context, logs, or tool arguments.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent, e.g. 'create an Acrual invoice' or 'register a job webhook', and Jentic returns the matching Acrual operation with its input schema — no doc-browsing required.

Time to first call

Direct Acrual integration: 1-3 days for auth, webhook plumbing, and error handling. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Xero Accounting API

Pair Acrual job and invoice data with Xero's general ledger and bank feeds.

Choose Xero when the agent needs the full accounting ledger, bank reconciliation, or tax reporting that Acrual does not handle directly.

Alternative

Actionstep API

Practice management for legal firms — same idea of jobs, time, and invoicing for a different industry.

Pick Actionstep over Acrual when the customer is a law firm rather than a trade or manufacturing business.

Complementary

Sage API

Sync Acrual invoices and purchase orders into Sage for full accounting and payroll.

Use Sage when the customer already runs Sage as their finance system and needs Acrual job data mirrored into it.

FAQs

Specific to using Acrual API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Acrual API?

Acrual does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Acrual API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Acrual API use?

Acrual uses HTTP bearer token authentication. You pass an Authorization: Bearer <token> header on every request. Through Jentic, the bearer token is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and never enters the agent's context — the agent receives a scoped execution handle instead of the raw secret.

Can I create invoices and purchase orders with the Acrual API?

Yes. POST to /v1.0/invoices to issue an invoice and POST to /v1.0/purchase-orders to raise a PO. Both can be linked back to a job and a client record. The spec covers 46 operations in total across jobs, invoices, quotes, purchase orders, time entries, suppliers, and webhooks.

What are the rate limits for the Acrual API?

The OpenAPI spec does not declare explicit rate limits, so check Acrual's developer portal for the current ceiling. Build retries with exponential backoff around 429 responses, and prefer webhook subscriptions on /v1.0/hooks for change notifications instead of polling.

How do I subscribe to invoice events with the Acrual API through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, search Jentic for 'register an Acrual webhook', load the schema for POST /v1.0/hooks, and execute it with the target URL and event type. Jentic handles the bearer auth via its vault, so the only inputs your agent needs are the callback URL and the event filter.

Does the Acrual API support file attachments on jobs?

Yes. The /v1.0/jobs/{id}/files and /v1.0/jobs/{id}/files/folder endpoints let you upload and organise files inside a job folder, which is how construction crews keep site photos, drawings, and signed variations attached to the job record.