Record a manual payment

POSThttps://api.dcdial.com/api/type=add_payment

PaymentsToken

Records a payment received outside DCDial (cash, check, wire…) and applies it to the account balance. No money is moved.

Parameters

Send as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

typestringrequired
Selects the operation. Always add_payment for this endpoint.
tokenstringrequired
Your API token from Log in. See Authentication.
account_idstringrequired
Your reference for the account (its accountid).
Example ACC-10045
payment_datestringrequired
Date of the payment (YYYY-MM-DD).
Example 2026-10-15
payment_methodstringrequired
How it was paid: wire transfer (WT), cash, check, card (CC), ACH or PayPal (PP).
One ofWTCASHCHECKCCACHPP
amountnumberrequired
Amount in the account currency.
Example 150
company_idintegerrequired
Your DCDial company ID.
Example 101
payment_notestringoptional
Free-text note.

curl https://api.dcdial.com/api/ \
  -d type=add_payment \
  -d token="$DCDIAL_TOKEN" \
  -d account_id=ACC-10045 \
  -d payment_date=2026-10-15 \
  -d payment_method=WT \
  -d amount=150 \
  -d company_id=101

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.dcdial.com/api/');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query([
        'type' => 'add_payment',
        'token' => getenv('DCDIAL_TOKEN'),
        'account_id' => 'ACC-10045',
        'payment_date' => '2026-10-15',
        'payment_method' => 'WT',
        'amount' => 150,
        'company_id' => 101,
    ]),
]);
$result = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
curl_close($ch);

if (($result['response']['success'] ?? 0) != 1) {
    throw new RuntimeException($result['response']['error'] ?? 'Request failed');
}

const res = await fetch('https://api.dcdial.com/api/', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: new URLSearchParams({
    type: "add_payment",
    token: process.env.DCDIAL_TOKEN,
    account_id: "ACC-10045",
    payment_date: "2026-10-15",
    payment_method: "WT",
    amount: "150",
    company_id: "101",
  }),
});
const { response } = await res.json();
if (response.success != 1) throw new Error(response.error);

import os
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.dcdial.com/api/",
    data={
        "type": "add_payment",
        "token": os.environ["DCDIAL_TOKEN"],
        "account_id": "ACC-10045",
        "payment_date": "2026-10-15",
        "payment_method": "WT",
        "amount": 150,
        "company_id": 101,
    },
    timeout=30,
)
response = r.json()["response"]
if str(response.get("success")) != "1":
    raise RuntimeError(response.get("error"))

{
  "response": {
    "success": "1",
    "PaymentID": "90311",
    "error": ""
  }
}

Record a manual payment

Parameters

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