---
title: "Postpone an invoice"
method: PUT
path: "/api/creditcontrol/accounts/{creditAccountId}/invoices/{invoiceId}/postponement"
tags: ["Invoices"]
---

# Postpone an invoice

`PUT /api/creditcontrol/accounts/{creditAccountId}/invoices/{invoiceId}/postponement`

Postpones an invoice by the amount of time defined on the `dueDays` field (number of days for the invoice to be postponed by).

This operation updates the invoice field `dueDate`.

>⚠️ Before making this request, access the endpoint [Retrieve store configuration](https://developers.vtex.com/docs/api-reference/customer-credit-api#get-/api/creditcontrol/storeconfig) to check whether the option to postpone invoice is enabled in the store (`invoicePostponementLimit: value greater than 0`  and `postponementEnabled: true`).

## Permissions

Any user or [API key](https://developers.vtex.com/docs/guides/api-authentication-using-api-keys) must have at least one of the appropriate [License Manager resources](https://help.vtex.com/en/tutorial/license-manager-resources--3q6ztrC8YynQf6rdc6euk3) to be able to successfully run this request. Otherwise they will receive a status code `403` error. These are the applicable resources for this endpoint:

| **Product** | **Category** | **Resource** |
| --------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- |
| Credit Control | Main | **Main Access** |
| Credit Control | Invoices | **Create Invoices** |

There are no applicable [predefined roles](https://help.vtex.com/en/tutorial/predefined-roles--jGDurZKJHvHJS13LnO7Dy) for this resource list. You must [create a custom role](https://help.vtex.com/en/tutorial/roles--7HKK5Uau2H6wxE1rH5oRbc#creating-a-role) and add at least one of the resources above in order to use this endpoint.To learn more about machine authentication at VTEX, see [Authentication overview](https://developers.vtex.com/docs/guides/authentication).

>❗ To prevent integrations from having excessive permissions, consider the [best practices for managing API keys](https://help.vtex.com/en/tutorial/best-practices-api-keys--7b6nD1VMHa49aI5brlOvJm) when assigning License Manager roles to integrations.

## Path parameters

- `creditAccountId` string, required
- `invoiceId` string, required

## Headers

- `Content-Type` string, required
- `Accept` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `dueDays` number, required — Number of days to postpone the invoice.

## Response `200`

OK. This endpoint does not return any data in the response body.

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[API](https://skmtc.net/vtex/apis/customer-credit-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/vtex/apis/customer-credit-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/vtex/customer-credit-api/revisions/6397d4efe3b7/schema)