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e-boekhouden

e-boekhouden-pp-cli

Balance, profit & loss, and journal entries for e-Boekhouden from your terminal

Install

npx — recommended

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install e-boekhouden

Installs the CLI binary and the agent skill (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more). Add --cli-only or --skill-only for one half. Requires Node.

Hermes

hermes skills install mvanhorn/printing-press-library/cli-skills/pp-e-boekhouden --force

From the Hermes CLI. Inside a chat session use /skills install with the same path.

OpenClaw

Install the pp-e-boekhouden skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-e-boekhouden. The skill defines how its required CLI can be installed.

Paste this to your OpenClaw agent — the skill describes how to install its CLI.

View source on GitHub →

Balance, profit & loss, and journal entries from your terminal — with local financial reports and write-safety guards the API doesn't give you.

e-Boekhouden's v1 REST API has no CLI today, only library wrappers in PHP, Rust, Node, and Python. This CLI absorbs every endpoint (all 24) and adds local financial reporting (trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, VAT summary, AR/AP aging) computed offline from your synced ledgers and mutations, plus reconciliation and safety-gated writes for a service where every mutation is a real accounting entry.

Authentication

Auth is a two-step handshake: create a long-lived API token once in your e-Boekhouden account settings, then the CLI exchanges it for a short-lived session token automatically on every run — you never handle the session token yourself, and it never touches disk as a long-lived credential.

Quick Start

# Confirm the session handshake works and the API is reachable
e-boekhouden-pp-cli doctor

# Pull ledgers, mutations, invoices, and relations into the local store
e-boekhouden-pp-cli sync --full

# Check current balance across all ledgers
e-boekhouden-pp-cli report trial-balance --json

# See profit and loss computed from synced mutations
e-boekhouden-pp-cli report profit-loss --json

# Preview a new journal entry before writing it for real
e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation create --date 2026-01-15 --ledger-id 1300 --type 7 --description "Office supplies" --rows '[{"ledgerId":4200,"vatCode":"HOOG_INK_21","amount":25.50}]' --dry-run

Unique Features

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Safety-gated writes

mutation create — Refuses to actually write a mutation or invoice without --confirm, and blocks an ambiguous write across multiple linked administrations unless --company names the exact target.

Use --dry-run to preview any mutation/invoice write, and add --confirm only once you're sure — add --company on accounts linked to more than one administration to avoid silently booking an entry into the wrong client's books.
```
e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation create --date 2026-01-15 --ledger-id 1300 --type 7 --description "Office supplies" --rows '[{"ledgerId":4200,"vatCode":"HOOG_INK_21","amount":25.50}]' --dry-run
```

Local state that compounds

invoice reconcile — Lists invoices with no matching payment mutation, and mutations that reference an invoice number the CLI doesn't recognize.

Reach for this when chasing overdue invoices — it tells you which ones genuinely have no recorded payment, not just which the UI marks outstanding.
```
e-boekhouden-pp-cli invoice reconcile --json --select unmatchedInvoices.number,unmatchedInvoices.relationName
```
mutation suggest — Suggests the ledger and VAT code most often used for past mutations with a similar description.

Use before booking a recurring but not-identical transaction to avoid re-deriving the right ledger/VAT code from memory every time.
```
e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation suggest "Office supplies - Staples" --json
```
administration overview — Lists every administration linked to this API token, alongside ledger balances and outstanding invoices for the one administration this session is actually authenticated against.

Use this to see every administration linked to an API token plus that token's own balance/outstanding figures, instead of two separate calls.
```
e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration overview --json
```
relation statement — Full chronological history of invoices and mutations for one relation, with a computed running balance.

Use this to answer "has this customer actually paid what they owe" in one call instead of cross-referencing two separate lists.
```
e-boekhouden-pp-cli relation statement 789012 --json
```
ledger history — Itemized chronological mutation rows for one ledger account with a computed running balance.

Use this when you need to see how a specific ledger account arrived at its current balance, not just what the balance is today.
```
e-boekhouden-pp-cli ledger history 1300 --json --select rows.date,rows.description,rows.runningBalance
```

Recipes

Monday portfolio round across all clients

e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration overview --json

One call replaces switching between every managed administration to check balance and outstanding invoices.

Chase real unpaid invoices, not just UI-flagged ones

e-boekhouden-pp-cli invoice reconcile --agent --select unmatchedInvoices.number,unmatchedInvoices.relationName,unmatchedInvoices.amount

Narrows the reconciliation report to just the fields needed to act, since invoice/mutation payloads are large.

Suggest a ledger/VAT code for a recurring expense

e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation suggest "Office supplies - Staples"

Surfaces the ledger + VAT code you've used most often for similar descriptions before you book the entry.

Full customer payment history in one call

e-boekhouden-pp-cli relation statement 789012

Joins invoices and mutations for one relation with a running balance instead of cross-referencing two lists.

See how a ledger account reached its current balance

e-boekhouden-pp-cli ledger history 1300

Itemized mutation history with a running balance, not just the point-in-time total the API's balance endpoint returns.

Usage

Run e-boekhouden-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.

Commands

administration

Manage administration

e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration get - Get all administrations managed by the authorized accountant.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration get-linked - Get all administrations that are linked to the authorized administration.Please note that this endpoint will always return administrations linked to the administration of the user that created the API credentials.

costcenter

Manage costcenter

e-boekhouden-pp-cli costcenter create-cost-center - Create a new cost center.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli costcenter delete-cost-center - Delete a cost center.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli costcenter get-cost-center - Get a cost center.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli costcenter get-cost-centers - Get all cost centers.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli costcenter update-cost-center - Update a cost center.

emailtemplate

Manage emailtemplate

e-boekhouden-pp-cli emailtemplate - Get all email templates.

invoice

Manage invoice

e-boekhouden-pp-cli invoice create - Create a new invoice.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli invoice get - Search for invoices.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli invoice get-id - Get an invoice.

invoicetemplate

Manage invoicetemplate

e-boekhouden-pp-cli invoicetemplate - Get all invoice templates.

ledger

Manage ledger

e-boekhouden-pp-cli ledger create - Create a new ledger.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli ledger get - Get all ledgers.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli ledger get-balances - Get the balances on all ledgers with optional filters.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli ledger get-id - Get a ledger.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli ledger update - Update a ledger.

member

Manage member

e-boekhouden-pp-cli member create - Create a new member (only available to clubs or associations).
e-boekhouden-pp-cli member get - Get all members (only available to clubs or associations).
e-boekhouden-pp-cli member get-id - Get a member (only available to clubs or associations).
e-boekhouden-pp-cli member update - Update an existing member (only available to clubs or associations).

mutation

Manage mutation

e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation create - Create a new mutation.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation get - Get all mutations.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation get-id - Get a mutation by id.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli mutation get-outstanding-invoices - Get all outstanding invoices.

product

Manage product

e-boekhouden-pp-cli product create - Create a new product.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli product delete - Delete a product.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli product get - Get all products.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli product get-group - Get all product groups.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli product get-id - Get a product.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli product update - Update a product.

relation

Manage relation

e-boekhouden-pp-cli relation create - Create a new relation.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli relation get - Get all relations.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli relation get-id - Get a relation.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli relation update - Update an existing relation.

session

Manage session

e-boekhouden-pp-cli session end - Revokes the session token.
e-boekhouden-pp-cli session start - Start a new session. The response session token can be used as the Authorization header.

swagger

Manage swagger

e-boekhouden-pp-cli swagger get - Get
e-boekhouden-pp-cli swagger list - List

unit

Manage unit

e-boekhouden-pp-cli unit - Get all units.

Output Formats

# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration get

# JSON for scripting and agents
e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration get --json

# Filter to specific fields
e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration get --json --select id,name,status

# Dry run — show the request without sending
e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration get --dry-run

# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
e-boekhouden-pp-cli administration get --agent

Agent Usage

This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:

Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
Pipeable - --json output to stdout, errors to stderr
Filterable - --select id,name returns only fields you need
Previewable - --dry-run shows the request without sending
Explicit retries - add --idempotent to create retries and --ignore-missing to delete retries when a no-op success is acceptable
Confirmable - --yes for explicit confirmation of destructive actions
Piped input - write commands can accept structured input when their help lists --stdin
Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless --human-friendly is set

Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 4 auth error, 5 API error, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.

Health Check

e-boekhouden-pp-cli doctor

Verifies configuration, credentials, and connectivity to the API.

Configuration

Config file: ~/.config/e-boekhouden-pp-cli/config.toml

Static request headers can be configured under headers; per-command header overrides take precedence.

Environment variables:

Name	Kind	Required	Description
`EBOEKHOUDEN_API_TOKEN`	per_call	Yes	Set to your API credential.

agentcookie (optional)

If you use agentcookie to sync secrets across machines, this CLI auto-adopts agentcookie-managed credentials with no extra setup. When the daemon writes to this CLI's config, e-boekhouden-pp-cli doctor reports agentcookie: detected and auth-status labels the source as agentcookie. Skip this section if you don't use agentcookie - the CLI works the same as any other.

Troubleshooting

Authentication errors (exit code 4)

Run e-boekhouden-pp-cli doctor to check credentials
Verify the environment variable is set: echo $EBOEKHOUDEN_API_TOKEN Not found errors (exit code 3)
Check the resource ID is correct
Run the list command to see available items

API-specific

401 or session errors after the CLI has been idle for a while — Session tokens are short-lived; re-run any command and the CLI re-authenticates automatically using your cached API token — no manual login needed
"no permission to access the requested resource" (SECURITY_001/002) — Your API token's account doesn't have access to that administration or resource — check account settings on e-Boekhouden.nl
"refusing to create a mutation/invoice without --confirm" — This is intentional: run with --dry-run to preview, then add --confirm once you're sure you want to write the real entry
"this API token is linked to multiple administrations" — Pass --company "" on mutation create / invoice create to confirm which administration this write targets
PAGE_001 / PAGE_002 errors on list commands — limit must be between 1 and 2000 and offset must be >= 0 — adjust --limit/--offset

Known Gaps

No file/attachment support. No endpoint in the e-Boekhouden v1 API accepts a file upload or attachment — invoices and mutations cannot carry attached documents via this CLI or any other client of this API. This is a real API limitation, not a missing CLI feature.
One administration per session. Each API token is scoped to exactly one administration, so administration overview, mutation create --company, and invoice create --company can only see or target the administrations linked to that token — there is no way to query or write to a different administration without switching EBOEKHOUDEN_API_TOKEN.
Local financial reports are convenience views, not certified figures. report trial-balance, report balance-sheet, report profit-loss, and report vat-summary are computed from your last sync and, for VAT/ledger-history commands, from raw recorded amounts with no debit/credit sign inference. Cross-check totals against the e-Boekhouden web UI or your accountant before relying on them for filing.

Sources & Inspiration

This CLI was built by studying these projects and resources:

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