Updating an Item results in a Business Validation error - asking me

Question

I'm trying to update the purchase costs of our items. The API returns this error

A business validation error has occurred while processing your request Business Validation Error: 
Do you want to update existing purchase transactions to use the new purchase account

Any idea how I can answer this in the API call?

Here is my API call

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Item xmlns="http://schema.intuit.com/finance/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schema.intuit.com/finance/v3 IntuitRestServiceDef.xsd">    
    <Id>598</Id>
    <Name>64-U9K0-92QN</Name>
    <PurchaseCost>22.00</PurchaseCost>
    <SyncToken>1</SyncToken>
</Item>

Here is the API url being called

https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/<<company_id>>/item?operation=update

The same error comes from using the API explorer.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Got it. You need to supply a ExpenseAccountRef in the Update call to pass that validation check. Please update the documentation to state that this is needed to pass validation.