---
title: "Approve Payment Batch"
method: POST
path: "/companies/{company_id}/payment-batches/{batch_id}/approve"
tags: ["payments"]
---

# Approve Payment Batch

`POST /companies/{company_id}/payment-batches/{batch_id}/approve`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.zeno-works.ch` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://app.zeno-works.ch/companies/{company_id}/payment-batches/{batch_id}/approve`
- Auth: none declared

``pending_approval → approved`` (accountant) after re-validating the items.

422 with the standard offender ``{"msg"}`` when any item went stale since creation
(paid/bank-linked, no longer booked or owed, in another live batch, deleted, or its
IBAN/amount/currency no longer matching the stored file — ZENO-231); 409 for a
wrong state.

## Path parameters

- `company_id` string, required
- `batch_id` string, required

## Headers

- `authorization` string, nullable

## Cookies

- `access_token` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ApPaymentBatchOut: A persisted AP pain.001 batch + its approval audit trail.
  - `id` string, required
  - `company_id` string, required
  - `debtor_bank_account_id` string, required
  - `status` 'draft' | 'pending_approval' | 'approved' | 'exported' | 'cancelled', required: AP payment batch approval lifecycle (doc/pipeline.md §"Exports (accounting hand-off)"). ``draft → pending_approval → approved → exported`` (+ cancel from draft/pending/approved — ZENO-231; ``exported`` is final). Rejection is a *transition* back to ``draft``, not a state — the ``rejected_*`` audit columns record the last rejection. The XML is downloadable only in ``approved``/``exported``; the first download stamps ``approved → exported``.
  - `execution_date` string, date, required
  - `msg_id` string, required
  - `nb_of_txs` integer, required
  - `ctrl_sum` string, required
  - `filename` string, required
  - `created_by` string, nullable
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `submitted_by` string, nullable
  - `submitted_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `approved_by` string, nullable
  - `approved_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `rejected_by` string, nullable
  - `rejected_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `reject_reason` string, nullable
  - `exported_by` string, nullable
  - `exported_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `cancelled_by` string, nullable
  - `cancelled_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `items` ApPaymentBatchItemOut[]
    - `id` string, required
    - `item_id` string, nullable
    - `creditor_name` string, required
    - `iban` string, required
    - `amount` string, required
    - `currency` string, required
    - `instr_id` string, required
    - `end_to_end_id` string, required
    - `first_time_supplier` boolean

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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