# List the customers (deprecated) API Reference

Returns a paginated list of customers, with optional filters.

- **Deprecated:** use `GET /v1/companies/{company_id}/customers`, which behaves identically.

**Retires on 9 December 2026.** See the [migration guide](https://docs.beel.es/changelog/resources-under-the-nif) for what moved where and what changes when you switch.


## GET /v1/customers

**List the customers**

Returns a paginated list of customers, with optional filters.

- **Deprecated:** use `GET /v1/companies/{company_id}/customers`, which behaves identically.

**Retires on 9 December 2026.** See the [migration guide](https://docs.beel.es/changelog/resources-under-the-nif) for what moved where and what changes when you switch.

**Deprecated.**

### Authentication

Accepts any of:

- `ApiKeyAuth` (HTTP bearer, token format `beel_sk_*`)

### Parameters

- **page** (optional) in query `integer` (default: 1): Page number, starting at 1. The response echoes it back as `pagination.current_page`.
- **limit** (optional) in query `integer` (default: 20): How many items to return per page. The response echoes it back as `pagination.items_per_page`.
- **active** (optional) in query `boolean`: Filter by active/inactive status. Defaults to `true`, so inactive customers must be requested explicitly with `active=false`. Deleted customers are never returned by either value.
- **search** (optional) in query `string`: Global search by name, NIF or email
- **legal_name** (optional) in query `string`: Filter by legal name (partial search case-insensitive)
- **nif** (optional) in query `string`: Filter by NIF (partial search)
- **email** (optional) in query `string`: Filter by email (partial search)
- **phone** (optional) in query `string`: Filter by phone (partial search)
- **city** (optional) in query `string`: Filter by city
- **province** (optional) in query `string`: Filter by province
- **sort_by** (optional) in query (default: "legal_name"): Field to sort by. Results are always tie-broken by a stable internal key, so paging through the collection never repeats or skips a customer.
- **sort_order** (optional) in query (default: "asc"): Sort order direction

### Responses

#### 200: Customer list retrieved successfully

**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: true)
- **data** (required): The payload. An object for a single resource; an object holding the named collection (and its `pagination`) for a listing. Never a bare array at this level in v1.
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **data** `object`: No description
  - **customers** (required) `array[Customer]`: No description
  - **pagination** (required) `Pagination`

**Example `list_success`** — List customers (200):

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "customers": [
      {
        "id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000",
        "legal_name": "Tech Solutions SL",
        "nif": "B12345674",
        "email": "admin@techsolutions.com",
        "phone": "+34912345678",
        "address": {
          "street": "Calle Mayor",
          "number": "15",
          "postal_code": "28013",
          "city": "Madrid",
          "province": "Madrid",
          "country": "España"
        },
        "active": true,
        "created_at": "2024-06-15T10:30:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2025-01-10T14:00:00Z"
      },
      {
        "id": "789abc12-34de-56f7-8901-234567890abc",
        "legal_name": "María García López",
        "nif": "12345678Z",
        "email": "maria.garcia@email.com",
        "phone": "+34654321987",
        "address": {
          "street": "Avenida de la Constitución",
          "number": "25",
          "floor": "3º",
          "door": "B",
          "postal_code": "41001",
          "city": "Sevilla",
          "province": "Sevilla",
          "country": "España"
        },
        "active": true,
        "created_at": "2024-08-20T09:00:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2024-12-01T11:30:00Z"
      },
      {
        "id": "456def78-90ab-12cd-3456-78ef01234567",
        "legal_name": "Distribuidora Levante SA",
        "nif": "A22222222",
        "email": "contabilidad@distribuidoralevante.es",
        "phone": "+34963456789",
        "address": {
          "street": "Polígono Industrial Norte",
          "number": "7",
          "postal_code": "46007",
          "city": "Valencia",
          "province": "Valencia",
          "country": "España"
        },
        "active": false,
        "created_at": "2024-03-10T16:45:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2024-11-20T08:00:00Z"
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "current_page": 1,
      "items_per_page": 20,
      "total_items": 3,
      "total_pages": 1,
      "has_next": false,
      "has_previous": false
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-20T12:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"
  }
}
```

#### 400: The request target could not be read as declared, so nothing was looked up. Three causes,
all named in `error.details`: a path or query parameter whose value does not parse as its
type (`VALIDATION_ERROR` — a UUID that is not a UUID, an unknown enum value, an empty
element in a list such as `status=ISSUED,`), a required parameter that was not sent
(`MISSING_PARAMETER`), or a header that is meant to carry an identifier and does not
(`ACTIVE_COMPANY_HEADER_INVALID`). A list parameter sent entirely empty (`status=`) is
not an error: it is the same as omitting it.

The fault is in the target, not in the content — which is what `422` is defined over.


**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "The parameter 'invoice_id' has an invalid type. Expected: UUID.",
    "details": {
      "field": "invoice_id",
      "invalid_value": "deliveries",
      "expected_format": "UUID"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 401: Missing or invalid authentication. Like every other error, `message`/`detail` is
localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English when the
header is missing or asks for none of those.


**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Authentication is required to access this resource"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 403: Authenticated but not allowed. Fourteen causes shared by every operation, told apart by
`error.code`; an operation that adds a cause of its own names it in its `403`. You can
branch on them exhaustively.

- `INSUFFICIENT_SCOPE` — the credential lacks a scope the operation requires;
  `error.details.missing_scopes` names them as a single comma-separated string (for
  example `"invoices:write,customers:read"`), not as an array; `required_scopes` has the
  same shape and lists every scope the operation needs. Retrying will not help: mint a key
  that holds them.
- `COMPANY_READ_ONLY` — the scope is there, but your access level over that NIF only
  lets you read it.
- `ACCOUNT_MANAGEMENT_FORBIDDEN` — the scope is there, but your role over the account,
  or the management relationship you hold over it, does not cover this operation.
- `ACCOUNT_NOT_ACCESSIBLE` — the account is not yours to reach, which is also the answer
  when it does not exist, so existence is never disclosed.
- `ACTIVE_COMPANY_NOT_ACCESSIBLE` — the same, for a NIF: the company in the path, or the
  one named by `BeeL-Active-Company`, is not one this credential may reach — and again,
  this is also the answer when it does not exist.
- `COMPANY_ACCESS_REVOKED` — your access to the NIF was withdrawn while the request was
  already in flight, so the write was rejected and nothing was recorded. Retrying will
  not help until the access is granted again.
- `LIVE_CREDENTIAL_REQUIRED` — the operation changes the real account and the call came
  from a test API key (`beel_sk_test_…`). Use your live key or the dashboard.
- `FEATURE_NOT_AVAILABLE` — your subscription does not include the entitlement the
  operation needs; `error.details.feature_code` names it. This gate runs **before** the
  scope gate, so for such an operation you never see `INSUFFICIENT_SCOPE` first.
- `NO_ACTIVE_ACCOUNT` — the credential does not resolve to an account, so no scope can be
  evaluated against one. Fail-closed, not a permission that can be granted to you.
- `OPERATION_REQUIRES_SESSION` — the operation is available only from the web session; no
  API key and no OAuth2 token can perform it, whatever scopes it holds.
- `OPERATION_REQUIRES_API_KEY` — the reverse: the operation needs a scope that only an API
  key can hold (such as `accounts:write`), so a dashboard session never satisfies it.
- `API_KEY_LIVE_NOT_AVAILABLE` — the call came with a live API key (`beel_sk_live_…`) and
  the account has no Live mode yet. It is never degraded to Test: use your test key, or
  activate Live first.
- `ACCOUNT_REQUIRES_FOCUS_SWITCH` — dashboard session only: you are a member of the account
  in the path, but it is not the account in focus. Switch focus to it and retry.
- `REQUEST_BLOCKED` — the edge security filter stopped the request before the API saw its
  body, usually because a text field carries something that looks like markup or a
  script (HTML tags, `<script>`). Review the body and retry.


**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "FORBIDDEN",
    "message": "You do not have permission to access this resource"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 422: A parameter parsed as its declared type but its value is not one the operation admits:
a `limit` outside its range (`limit=0`, `limit=101`), a `page` under 1, a `cursor` that is
not one this API issued, more keys than the `metadata` filter accepts, a value outside the
supported set. The query was rejected whole and nothing was read.

Where a `400` says the target could not be understood, this says it was understood and
refused. Fix the value — retrying the same query answers the same way.


**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Validation constraint violation.",
    "details": {
      "limit": "must be greater than or equal to 1"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 429: Rate limit exceeded. `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` when the request rate of your credential is
over its limit; `TOO_MANY_REQUESTS` when an email the operation sends is held back because
too many went out to that recipient in a short time. Either way, retry after the
`Retry-After` seconds.

`QUOTA_EXCEEDED` is the other `429`: the operation would go over a quota of your plan
for the current period (issued invoices, for instance). Retrying does not help until the
quota resets or the plan changes. `error.details` carries `feature_code`,
`current_usage`, `quota_limit` and `reset_date`, and `RateLimit-Reset` the seconds until
the reset when it is known.


**Headers:**

- `Retry-After` `integer`: Seconds until the rate limit resets
- `RateLimit-Limit` `integer`: Maximum requests allowed in the window
- `RateLimit-Remaining` `integer`: Remaining requests in the current window
- `RateLimit-Reset` `integer`: Seconds until the current window resets

**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "Too many requests. Please try again in 60 seconds."
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 500: Internal server error

**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "INTERNAL_ERROR",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### default: Any status code the operation does not list above. Every operation declares it, so a
generated client always has a branch to fall into and never loses the cause of a failure
it did not anticipate.

This is where the transport-level answers land — `405`, `406`, `415` and `429` — together
with any status a future version of the API starts returning. All of them carry the same
error envelope as the codes listed explicitly, so `error.code` is what tells them apart:
switching on the status code alone is not enough. See «Transport-level errors» in the
API description for when each one is produced.

A `402` carrying `SUBSCRIPTION_REQUIRED` lands here when the account has no active
subscription. `error.details` says why and what to do: `current_status` (absent if it
never had one), `required_permission` and `action`.

A `503` carrying `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE` lands here too, with a `Retry-After` header: a
dependency of BeeL itself (the database, the email provider) was momentarily
unavailable and nothing was done. Retry after those seconds.

A `502` carrying `EXTERNAL_SERVICE_ERROR` also lands here: an outbound integration the
operation depends on failed or did not answer in time. It is a transient condition — retry
with the same `Idempotency-Key` where the operation accepts one.

One exception to the envelope: a failure of the network edge that never reaches the
application (`502`, `503`, `504`, `524`) is generated by Cloudflare and its body is not
BeeL's — it may not even be JSON. Treat those as "no answer", and retry.


**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE",
    "message": "Unsupported media type: text/plain. Supported: application/json"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

---

# Related Schema Definitions

## SuccessResponse

The envelope every successful JSON response of the BeeL. API is wrapped in. There are no
bare resources in v1 and none are planned: the payload always hangs off `data`.

- A **single resource** is an object in `data`.
- A **collection** hangs off a named key inside `data`, together with its `pagination`,
  also inside `data` — `data: {invoices: [...], pagination: {...}}`.
- A collection carries `pagination` unless its operation declares itself a **closed
  catalogue**: a fixed, bounded list with nothing to page through. The declaration is
  explicit in the operation; a missing `pagination` is never something to infer.
- `GET /v1/accounts` pages by cursor (`data: {accounts: [...], next_cursor}`). It is a
  documented variant of pagination, not another envelope.

Putting the array straight into `data` with `pagination` as its sibling is the shape a v2
would adopt; v1 is not being flipped to it.

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: true)
- **data** (required): The payload. An object for a single resource; an object holding the named collection (and its `pagination`) for a listing. Never a bare array at this level in v1.
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`

## ResponseMeta

- **timestamp** `string` (date-time): No description (example: "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z")
- **request_id** `string`: No description (example: "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736")

## Customer

- **id** (required) `string` (uuid): No description (example: "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000")
- **legal_name** (required) `string`: No description (example: "Empresa Cliente SL")
- **trade_name** `string`: No description (example: "EmpresaCliente")
- **nif** `NIF`: Spanish Tax ID (9 characters, uppercase only). Structural validation: - DNI: 8 digits + 1 letter (e.g., 12345678A) - NIE: X/Y/Z + 7 digits + 1 letter (e.g., X1234567A) - CIF: Organization letter + 7 digits + 1 control digit/letter (e.g., B12345674)
- **address** (required): Customer address as stored. Read shape: records registered before the street number was collected have none, so no field is guaranteed.
- **phone** `Phone`: A phone number, as the record holds it: digits, spaces, dashes, parentheses and an optional leading `+`, up to 20 characters. This is the schema a **response** carries, and the length above is the only rule it states. It deliberately does not repeat the character rule, because a number can reach a record through a path that predates that rule or never passed through this API at all — a payment provider's customer data, a bulk import. Read the field defensively and do not assume it parses. What a **request** has to satisfy is `PhoneInput`, which adds the rules this API enforces on the way in.
- **email** `string` (email): Main contact address (minimum valid email is 5 chars, e.g. a@b.co). Invoice emails go here only when the customer has no `billing_emails`.
- **website** `string`: Website URL
- **billing_emails** `array[Email]`: Addresses that receive the customer's invoice emails. When the send request names no `recipients` and the invoice has no `email_config` recipients, invoices go to these addresses, and not to `email`; `email` is used only when `billing_emails` is empty.
- **contact_person** `string`: No description (example: "María García")
- **notes** `string`: No description
- **preferred_payment_method** `PaymentInfo`
- **general_discount** `number`: No description
- **active** `boolean`: No description
- **created_at** (required) `string` (date-time): No description
- **updated_at** `string` (date-time): No description
- **alternative_id** `AlternativeIdentifier`: Alternative identifier for customers without Spanish Tax ID. ### VeriFactu rules (checked when you send it, `422` on violation) - `country_code` is required, except for `PASSPORT` (03) and `NOT_REGISTERED` (07), the two types AEAT accepts with `ES`: omitted, `ES` applies. Missing for any other type, the identifier is rejected with `ALTERNATIVE_ID_COUNTRY_REQUIRED`, and `error.details` names the field where it was sent: `alternative_id.country_code` on a customer, `recipient.alternative_id.country_code` on an invoice recipient. Same code in both. - If `country_code = ES`, then `type` **must** be `PASSPORT` (03) or `NOT_REGISTERED` (07) (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_SPAIN_INVALID_TYPE`). - If `type = NOT_REGISTERED` (07), then `country_code` **must** be `ES` (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_REQUIRES_SPAIN`), and `number` **must** be a Spanish DNI or NIE: a Spanish company is always registered (`RECIPIENT_UNREGISTERED_ID_MUST_BE_DNI_OR_NIE`). That DNI or NIE must not be one the AEAT census identifies: if it is, the identifier is rejected with `ALTERNATIVE_ID_ACTUALLY_IN_CENSUS` and has to be sent as `nif`. A customer is checked when it is saved; an invoice recipient, when the invoice is issued with VeriFactu. If the census does not answer, the identifier is not rejected. - If `type = NIF_IVA` (02), `country_code` **must** be an EU member state other than Spain (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_VAT_REQUIRES_EU_COUNTRY`), and `number` **must** have that country's EU VAT number structure as AEAT defines it: the country prefix (`EL` for Greece) followed by the national number, e.g. `FR40303265045`, `DE123456789`, `EL094014201` (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_VAT_INVALID_FORMAT`). Lowercase letters are accepted and stored in uppercase. A customer from outside the EU is identified with another type, such as `OTHER_DOCUMENT` or `COUNTRY_ID`. A `number` that is blank once trimmed is rejected with `ALTERNATIVE_ID_INVALID`. Well-formed is not the same as registered: an EU VAT number that is not in the VIES census is still rejected by VeriFactu after the invoice is issued. An identifier returned in a response is the one stored. A customer saved before a rule existed keeps its identifier and can still be read; issuing an invoice to it with an identifier that breaks these rules is rejected with the same code, before a number is used. ### Matrix of allowed combinations | `type`                 | `country_code = ES` | `country_code ≠ ES` | |------------------------|:-------------------:|:-------------------:| | `NIF_IVA` (02)         | ✗                   | EU member states only | | `PASSPORT` (03)        | ✓                   | ✓                   | | `COUNTRY_ID` (04)      | ✗                   | ✓                   | | `RESIDENCE_CERTIFICATE` (05) | ✗             | ✓                   | | `OTHER_DOCUMENT` (06)  | ✗                   | ✓                   | | `NOT_REGISTERED` (07)  | ✓                   | ✗                   |

## Pagination

- **current_page** (required) `integer`: No description (example: 1)
- **total_pages** (required) `integer`: How many pages the query has. An empty collection has **one** page — the first one, empty — so the smallest value a canonical route returns is `1`. The deprecated flat aliases (`/v1/invoices`, `/v1/customers`, …) answer `0` for that same empty collection, and `has_next`/`has_previous` follow suit. They were left as they were on purpose: a client that reads `total_pages == 0` as "no results" would break if it changed under it. Do not compare the two families of routes field by field; read `total_items` if what you want to know is whether anything came back. (example: 5)
- **total_items** (required) `integer`: No description (example: 87)
- **items_per_page** (required) `integer`: No description (example: 20)
- **has_next** `boolean`: No description
- **has_previous** `boolean`: No description

## ErrorResponse

Error response shared by all BeeL. APIs.

The payload carries **two contracts at once** (additive, non-breaking):

- **Legacy** (`success`, `error.{code,message,details}`, `meta`) — kept
  intact for existing consumers.
- **RFC 9457** (`type`, `title`, `detail`, `instance`) — new fields
  for integrators following Problem Details for HTTP APIs. The
  `type` URI is the stable, shareable link to the error's
  documentation page (e.g. `https://docs.beel.es/errors/{code}`).

Future migration: the legacy fields will be deprecated via
`Deprecation`/`Sunset` headers after a sufficient adoption window,
and the response Content-Type will move to
`application/problem+json`.

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

## ErrorDetail

- **code** (required) `string`: No description (example: "VALIDATION_ERROR")
- **message** (required) `string`: No description (example: "The provided data is not valid")
- **details** `object`: No description (example: {"field":"specific error message"})

## NIF

Spanish Tax ID (9 characters, uppercase only). Structural validation:
- DNI: 8 digits + 1 letter (e.g., 12345678A)
- NIE: X/Y/Z + 7 digits + 1 letter (e.g., X1234567A)
- CIF: Organization letter + 7 digits + 1 control digit/letter (e.g., B12345674)

Type: `string`

## Phone

A phone number, as the record holds it: digits, spaces, dashes, parentheses and an
optional leading `+`, up to 20 characters.

This is the schema a **response** carries, and the length above is the only rule it
states. It deliberately does not repeat the character rule, because a number can reach a
record through a path that predates that rule or never passed through this API at all —
a payment provider's customer data, a bulk import. Read the field defensively and do not
assume it parses.

What a **request** has to satisfy is `PhoneInput`, which adds the rules this API enforces
on the way in.

Type: `string`

## Email

Email address (minimum valid email is 5 chars, e.g. a@b.co)

Type: `string` (email)

## PaymentInfo

- **method**: Preferred payment method. Omitted, `BANK_TRANSFER` applies. If NONE is selected, no payment information will be shown on the invoice.
- **iban** `IBAN`: IBAN (International Bank Account Number). Required when payment method is BANK_TRANSFER.
- **swift** `SWIFT`: SWIFT/BIC code
- **payment_term_days** `integer`: Payment term in days. When marking an invoice as paid, every field of this object that travels replaces the stored one and every omitted field keeps its current value. (example: 30)

## AlternativeIdentifier

Alternative identifier for customers without Spanish Tax ID.

### VeriFactu rules (checked when you send it, `422` on violation)
- `country_code` is required, except for `PASSPORT` (03) and `NOT_REGISTERED` (07), the two
  types AEAT accepts with `ES`: omitted, `ES` applies. Missing for any other type, the
  identifier is rejected with `ALTERNATIVE_ID_COUNTRY_REQUIRED`, and `error.details` names
  the field where it was sent: `alternative_id.country_code` on a customer,
  `recipient.alternative_id.country_code` on an invoice recipient. Same code in both.
- If `country_code = ES`, then `type` **must** be `PASSPORT` (03) or `NOT_REGISTERED` (07)
  (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_SPAIN_INVALID_TYPE`).
- If `type = NOT_REGISTERED` (07), then `country_code` **must** be `ES`
  (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_REQUIRES_SPAIN`), and `number` **must** be a Spanish DNI or NIE: a
  Spanish company is always registered (`RECIPIENT_UNREGISTERED_ID_MUST_BE_DNI_OR_NIE`).
  That DNI or NIE must not be one the AEAT census identifies: if it is, the identifier is
  rejected with `ALTERNATIVE_ID_ACTUALLY_IN_CENSUS` and has to be sent as `nif`. A customer
  is checked when it is saved; an invoice recipient, when the invoice is issued with
  VeriFactu. If the census does not answer, the identifier is not rejected.
- If `type = NIF_IVA` (02), `country_code` **must** be an EU member state other than Spain
  (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_VAT_REQUIRES_EU_COUNTRY`), and `number` **must** have that country's
  EU VAT number structure as AEAT defines it: the country prefix (`EL` for Greece) followed
  by the national number, e.g. `FR40303265045`, `DE123456789`, `EL094014201`
  (`ALTERNATIVE_ID_VAT_INVALID_FORMAT`). Lowercase letters are accepted and stored in
  uppercase. A customer from outside the EU is identified with another type, such as
  `OTHER_DOCUMENT` or `COUNTRY_ID`.

A `number` that is blank once trimmed is rejected with `ALTERNATIVE_ID_INVALID`.

Well-formed is not the same as registered: an EU VAT number that is not in the VIES
census is still rejected by VeriFactu after the invoice is issued.

An identifier returned in a response is the one stored. A customer saved before a rule
existed keeps its identifier and can still be read; issuing an invoice to it with an
identifier that breaks these rules is rejected with the same code, before a number is used.

### Matrix of allowed combinations
| `type`                 | `country_code = ES` | `country_code ≠ ES` |
|------------------------|:-------------------:|:-------------------:|
| `NIF_IVA` (02)         | ✗                   | EU member states only |
| `PASSPORT` (03)        | ✓                   | ✓                   |
| `COUNTRY_ID` (04)      | ✗                   | ✓                   |
| `RESIDENCE_CERTIFICATE` (05) | ✗             | ✓                   |
| `OTHER_DOCUMENT` (06)  | ✗                   | ✓                   |
| `NOT_REGISTERED` (07)  | ✓                   | ✗                   |

- **type** (required) `string`: Identifier type. Use descriptive names: - **NIF_IVA**: EU VAT number (intra-community) — *only for an EU member state other than Spain, with that country's VAT number structure* - **PASSPORT**: Passport — *allowed for any country* - **COUNTRY_ID**: Country of residence ID — *not allowed when `country_code = ES`* - **RESIDENCE_CERTIFICATE**: Residence certificate — *not allowed when `country_code = ES`* - **OTHER_DOCUMENT**: Other supporting document — *not allowed when `country_code = ES`* - **NOT_REGISTERED**: Not registered in AEAT — *requires `country_code = ES`* **⚠️ DEPRECATED numeric codes** (will be removed in v2): 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 — use the descriptive names above instead. — one of: NIF_IVA, PASSPORT, COUNTRY_ID, RESIDENCE_CERTIFICATE, OTHER_DOCUMENT, NOT_REGISTERED, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
- **number** (required) `string`: Identifier number. For `NIF_IVA`, the full EU VAT number with its country prefix (e.g. `FR40303265045`); see the VeriFactu rules on the parent schema.
- **country_code** `string`: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country that issued the document. Required except for `PASSPORT` and `NOT_REGISTERED`, where omitting it means `ES`. Constrains the allowed `type` values; see the VeriFactu rules on the parent schema.

## IBAN

IBAN (International Bank Account Number).
Required when payment method is BANK_TRANSFER.

Type: `string`

## SWIFT

SWIFT/BIC code

Type: `string`


---

Full OpenAPI spec: https://docs.beel.es/api/openapi