List vendors

Returns the org's vendor book: each canonical vendor, the alias spellings a receipt may print it under, and the expense account new bills from it default to.

GET /v1/books/vendors

Addresshttps://api.hanzo.ai/v1/books/vendors
MethodGET
Operationget_books_vendors
AuthAuthorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY

Returns the org's vendor book: each canonical vendor, the alias spellings a receipt may print it under, and the expense account new bills from it default to. A vendor here is what makes a scanned bill self-classify instead of asking again.

Request

1 field.

FieldInTypeRequiredDescription
sandboxquerystring—Sandbox reads the org's SANDBOX ledger when it is exactly "true"; anything else reads the live one.

Response

StatusBodyMeaning
200books.vendorsOutok
defaultproblem-detailsrefused

200 body — 4 fields.

FieldInTypeAlwaysDescription
vendorsbodybooks.VendorRow[]—Vendors is every vendor the org has recorded, canonical name ascending.
vendors[].aliasesbodystring[]—Aliases are the other spellings a receipt may print the vendor under; a scan matching any of them resolves to this vendor.
vendors[].canonicalbodystring—Canonical is the vendor's one true name, and the key an upsert writes by.
vendors[].defaultCategorybodystring—DefaultCategory is the COA expense account new bills from this vendor book to.

Failure carries the platform error shape — see Errors.

Examples

hanzo books vendors get
import { Configuration, BooksApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new BooksApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.getBooksVendors();
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import BooksApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = BooksApi(client).get_books_vendors()
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.BooksAPI.GetBooksVendors(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, books_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = books_api::get_books_vendors(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.BooksApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new BooksApi(client).getBooksVendors();
curl https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/books/vendors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY"

MCP reaches books through the books tool, which names its 20 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. describe explains any of them:

curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_book_accounts"
         }
       }
     }'

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