Coupa Purchase Orders API
Create, retrieve, update, and manage purchase orders. Purchase orders represent commitments to buy goods or services from suppliers.
Coupa Purchase Orders API is one of 16 APIs that Coupa publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Purchase Orders. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 8 operations across 6 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{instance}.coupahost.com/api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Coupa Purchase Orders API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 8 scopes.
An API key is passed in the header as X-COUPA-API-KEY (apiKey).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
oauth2— OAuth 2.0 authentication. Coupa supports the clientcredentials grant type. Obtain client credentials from Coupa instance setup.apiKey— Legacy API key authentication. Coupa recommends migrating to OAuth 2.0. API keys are configured per Coupa instance.
Paths & Operations 8
Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 2 GET, 1 POST, 5 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Create, retrieve, update, and manage purchase orders. Purchase orders represent commitments to buy goods or services from suppliers.
Schemas 11
The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are PurchaseOrder (39 properties), OrderLine (17 properties), PurchaseOrderCreate (14 properties), PurchaseOrderUpdate (12 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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