You paid someone outside of Routable?! But...

Okay, we're kidding. We're not really jealous, promise. 😏

For those situations where you do pay someone outside of Routable, for example, via a manual check or on the vendor's own payment platform, it's great to be able to flag a pending Payable as having already been paid in Routable and your accounting application. Routable's API has long supported creating an external Payable to record a payment made without Routable, but marking an existing Payable as paid has required the use of the Routable Dashboard.

Until today, that is.

Our API now supports marking Payables as externally paid! To do it, all you need to do is send an Update a Payable call to a payment in an editable state and change the payment's type to external. You'll need to provide three type_details fields, just like when creating an external Payable, and the API will handle synchronizing everything in Routable and in your integrated accounting software.

It's almost as easy as paying through Routable itself!