Expensify API Documentation

This is the complete API documentation for connecting to the Expensify API using MindCloud's Universal API. If you are new to MindCloud, start with the Introduction to see how one API can sit in front of many different apps.

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Meet Expensify: Expensify is an expense management platform. This app wraps the Expensify Integration Server for policy, report, export, and related back-office automation. Keep reading to get started.

Quickstart

Before you run your first Expensify request, you need three things:

1. A MindCloud account — sign in or create an account at MindCloud.
2. A MindCloud API Key — create one in API Keys. Keep it on your server.
3. At least one Expensify connection — create or choose one in Connections. Note its connectionId.

Every Expensify action uses the same URL pattern:

https://connect.mindcloud.co/v1/universal/expensify/latest/actions/{actionSlug}

You need a MindCloud API Key and a Expensify connection. Then call an action such as Download Generated File:

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v1/universal/expensify/latest/actions/download-generated-file" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --get \
  --data-urlencode "connectionId=$CONNECTION_ID"

Every response comes back in the same envelope, with your rows in a data array:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    { "id": "1042", "name": "Ava" }
  ],
  "meta": {}
}

After your first request works, use Shape your requests to control arguments, pagination, filtering, fields, and errors.

Authentication

Authentication has two layers. Your MindCloud API Key authenticates the request to MindCloud, sent as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. The connectionId selects the connected Expensify account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Expensify credentials behind that connection, so you never send provider tokens with your requests.

Pass connectionId in the query string for GET and DELETE actions, and in the JSON body for POST, PUT, and PATCH actions. Keep your MindCloud API Key on your server; do not ship it in browser code, mobile apps, public repositories, or logs.

Expensify actions

All 30 published actions for this Expensify version. Each page documents the endpoint, arguments, and response controls.

• PUTAssign Employees To Domain Groups
• POSTCreate Expense Rule
• POSTCreate Expenses
• POSTCreate Policy
• POSTCreate Report
• GETDownload Generated File
• GETDry Run Domain Group Assignment
• GETDry Run Employee Sync
• GETDry Run Employee Sync From SFTP
• GETDry Run Employee Sync From URL
• GETDry Run Employee Terminations
• GETExport Reports
• GETGet Policies
• GETList Domain Cards
• GETList Policies
• GETRun Reconciliation Export
• PUTSync Additional Policy Memberships
• PUTSync Employee Default Tags
• PUTSync Employee Primary Policies
• PUTSync Employee Roles
• PUTSync Employees
• PUTSync Employees From SFTP
• PUTSync Employees From URL
• PUTTerminate Employees
• PUTUpdate Expense Rule
• PUTUpdate Policy Categories
• PUTUpdate Policy Report Fields
• PUTUpdate Policy Tags
• PUTUpdate Report Status
• PUTUpdate Tag Approvers

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