---
title: "Create and Amend Quarterly Period Type for a Business"
method: PUT
path: "/individuals/business/details/{nino}/{businessId}/{taxYear}"
---

# Create and Amend Quarterly Period Type for a Business

`PUT /individuals/business/details/{nino}/{businessId}/{taxYear}`

This endpoint enables you to create and amend the type of quarterly reporting period used for a business for a specific tax year.
You can choose standard quarterly periods (where the first period is 6 April to 5 July) or calendar quarterly periods (first period 1 April to 30 June) for each tax year.
Note that the quarterly period type cannot be changed after a submission is made for that year.

**Warning:** If an invalid tax year or invalid business ID is submitted, the service will return a RULE_REQUEST_CANNOT_BE_FULFILLED error response. Only the current tax year is allowed and business IDs must relate to a self-employment or property income source.


### Test data
Scenario simulation using Gov-Test-Scenario headers is only available in the sandbox environment.    

| Header Value (Gov-Test-Scenario) | Scenario                                                                                                                                                         |
|----------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| N/A - DEFAULT                    | Simulate a successful response.                                                                                                                                  |
| BUSINESS_ID_NOT_FOUND           | Simulates the scenario in which the business ID is not found.                                                                                                    |
| BUSINESS_ID_STATE_CONFLICT       | Simulates the scenario in which the request conflicts with the current state of the business ID.                                                                 |
| QUARTERLY_PERIOD_UPDATING        | Simulates the scenario in which the quarterly period type cannot be changed when a business commencement date falls between 1st and 5th of April, and the current date is also within that date range but later than the business commencement date. |
| STATEFUL                         | Performs a stateful create and update.                                                                                                                           |

## Path parameters

- `nino` string, required
- `businessId` string, required
- `taxYear` string, required

## Headers

- `Accept` 'application/vnd.hmrc.2.0+json', required
- `Authorization` string, required
- `Gov-Test-Scenario` string

## Request body

- object — Create & Amend Quarterly Period Type request
  - `quarterlyPeriodType` 'standard' | 'calendar', required — The quarterly period type that is being set for the business id.

## Response `204`

Success(No Content)

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad request
- `403` — Forbidden
- `404` — Not Found
- `422` — Unprocessable Entity

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[API](https://skmtc.net/hmrc/apis/business-details-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/hmrc/apis/business-details-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/hmrc/business-details-api/revisions/a7127907ae64/schema)