> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.arcuserp.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Receive inventory outside a purchase order > Records inventory received at a location outside the purchase-order flow, accepting either a single item or a multi-item batch that posts as one atomic transaction. Every item requires a unit cost greater than zero, and a receipt against an existing purchase order should use that order's own receive operation instead. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml post /inventory/receive openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Arcus ERP Public API version: 1.0.0 description: > Arcus ERP public REST API. Designed for external integrations and data migration. **Authentication.** Bearer token (API key) via the `Authorization` header. Format: `Authorization: Bearer ark_live_ent__` (or `ark_test_*` for sandbox). API keys are issued per-entity in **Settings > Developers > API Keys**. **Entity scoping.** The entity is encoded in the API key prefix; routes are flat (e.g. `/v1/accounts`, `/v1/orders`, `/v1/products`). A small set of platform endpoints (migration, reconciliation, events, webhook endpoints, API keys) use the `/v1/entities/{entity_id}/...` form -- those are noted in their tags. **Key capabilities.** - Related-resource hydration via `?expand[]=` (see `x-arcus-expand` on each resource). - Cursor-based pagination (`starting_after` / `ending_before` / `limit`). - Idempotency via the `Idempotency-Key` header. - Webhook events for asynchronous notification. - Conditional requests / ETag for cache validation. **Changelog.** Entries are dated and name every published contract whose MEANING moved, not only the ones whose field names changed. The narrative version of the same entries, written for integrators, is published at https://arcuserp.mintlify.app/changelog. **2026-09-22 (planned 2026-09-21), REORDER-BUYER-TRUTH: demand changed what it MEANS on three published contracts, with no field renamed.** An integrator that pins field names sees no breakage and different numbers, which is why this entry exists. - **Demand now counts build consumption.** `demand_avg_per_day` on the public product, kit and inventory-balance objects, and `daily_demand` / `demand_basis` / `net_suggested_qty` on `GET /v1/purchasing/reorder-report`, are composed from fulfilled sales lines PLUS posted `build_consume` inventory draws: each physical decrement of a product counts exactly once. The previous rule adopted an internal-consumption basis only when the sales blend was exactly zero, so a product both sold AND consumed into work orders planned as if the build draws did not exist. Products drawn into work orders move; on one production-shaped dataset five did, the largest from 0.05/day to 14.95/day. - **`demand_basis` now carries four values, not two:** `sales`, `sales_and_builds`, `builds` and `consumption`. A consumer with a two-branch reader (anything that is not `consumption` is `sales`) silently hides the two new ones. - **`current_demand_units` on `GET /v1/inventory/balances/:id` moved, by a second rule.** It counts committed-but-unshipped CUSTOMER demand, and it now counts a kit component's own line rather than its parent kit line, and excludes non-sales documents. On one production dataset 269 of 1,043 balance rows changed, 227 of them downward; the largest single move was 1,941 to 25, on a product whose open PURCHASE order line had been reported as customer demand. Re-baseline anything that alerts or reorders off this field. - `run_rate_30/90/180/365` and `blended_daily` on the same balance object move for the first reason above. - **Added, not changed:** `GET /v1/purchasing/reorder-report` accepts `demand_window` and returns the unit, cover-through and reorder-point-provenance fields documented on that operation; `order_multiple` is accepted and returned on the product-vendor doors. - **Volume note.** The `inventory.low_stock`, `inventory.out_of_stock` and `inventory.back_in_stock` webhook events are population-gated on `on_hand <= reorder_point`, and reorder points move with the demand above, so subscribers should expect a one-time step change in event volume around the release. servers: - url: https://api.arcuserp.com/v1 description: Arcus ERP API (accepts both live `ark_live_*` and test `ark_test_*` keys) - url: https://dev-api.arcuserp.com/v1 description: >- Dev sandbox API (test-only data, accepts `ark_test_*` keys against dev RDS) security: [] paths: /inventory/receive: post: tags: - Inventory summary: Receive inventory outside a purchase order description: >- Records inventory received at a location outside the purchase-order flow, accepting either a single item or a multi-item batch that posts as one atomic transaction. Every item requires a unit cost greater than zero, and a receipt against an existing purchase order should use that order's own receive operation instead. operationId: postInventoryReceive parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey' requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: oneOf: - type: object description: Multi-item atomic mode required: - location_id - items properties: location_id: type: string format: uuid description: Layer 4 -- required notes: type: string items: type: array minItems: 1 items: type: object required: - product_id - quantity - unit_cost properties: product_id: type: string format: uuid quantity: type: integer minimum: 1 unit_cost: type: number description: Must be > 0 notes: type: string - type: object description: Single-item compat mode required: - product_id - location_id - quantity - unit_cost properties: product_id: type: string format: uuid location_id: type: string format: uuid description: Layer 4 -- required quantity: type: integer minimum: 1 unit_cost: type: number description: Required, must be > 0 notes: type: string examples: multi_item: summary: Multi-item atomic receive (2 SKUs, one transaction) value: location_id: 91aa7588-4dc7-4edd-b172-7de91f5e1f78 notes: Restocking run from supplier items: - product_id: 7f6f3e14-eaad-4c45-b922-209f6dc6d140 quantity: 10 unit_cost: 12.5 notes: Circuit Breaker 10A White - product_id: ec9288c3-12b1-474f-bb09-b0b15bb7a8ff quantity: 5 unit_cost: 8.75 notes: Square D Breaker Black single_item: summary: Single-item compat mode value: product_id: 7f6f3e14-eaad-4c45-b922-209f6dc6d140 location_id: 91aa7588-4dc7-4edd-b172-7de91f5e1f78 quantity: 25 unit_cost: 12.5 notes: Emergency restock responses: '201': description: Inventory received content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: object: type: string enum: - inventory_receive_result examples: multi_item_result: summary: Multi-item receive result value: object: inventory_receive_result items: - index: 0 product_id: 7f6f3e14-eaad-4c45-b922-209f6dc6d140 location_id: 91aa7588-4dc7-4edd-b172-7de91f5e1f78 quantity: 10 unit_cost: 12.5 balance: id: 0118ff93-8f65-4a72-ae7e-ca2a75526631 on_hand: 10 allocated: 0 available: 10 total_value: '125.00' avg_unit_value: '12.5000' transaction: id: 3096987e-b156-4ee0-b373-8056f5bd8d91 type: receiving quantity: 10 unit_price: '12.5000' total_price: '125.00' transaction_id: IVT-0000153 - index: 1 product_id: ec9288c3-12b1-474f-bb09-b0b15bb7a8ff location_id: 91aa7588-4dc7-4edd-b172-7de91f5e1f78 quantity: 5 unit_cost: 8.75 balance: id: 6e082a9d-7314-4bd9-9bf3-609b3aae12b3 on_hand: 5 allocated: 0 available: 5 total_value: '43.75' avg_unit_value: '8.7500' transaction: id: f7d36a63-008b-4973-9025-e22328786e40 type: receiving quantity: 5 unit_price: '8.7500' total_price: '43.75' transaction_id: IVT-0000154 summary: total_items: 2 total_quantity: 15 '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/Error' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Error' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Error' security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: parameters: IdempotencyKey: name: Idempotency-Key in: header required: false description: | Client-generated unique key for idempotent POST/PATCH/DELETE operations. Alias for the Idempotency parameter. Max 255 chars. On retry with the same key, the original response is returned without re-executing the operation. Keys expire after 24 hours. schema: type: string maxLength: 255 responses: Error: description: Error response (400/401/403/404/409/422/429/500) content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' schemas: ErrorEnvelope: type: object description: | Canonical error response envelope. All API errors use this shape. required: - error - code properties: error: type: string description: Machine-readable error key example: not_found code: type: string description: Machine-readable error code (often same as error) example: not_found type: type: string enum: - validation_error - permission_error - not_found - conflict - rate_limit - internal - expand_error - not_implemented example: not_found hint: type: string description: Human-readable one-sentence explanation (English) example: >- The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity. param: type: string description: The parameter that caused the error, if applicable example: expand[0] required: type: string description: The scope required (only on insufficient_scope errors) example: accounts:read request_id: type: string description: >- Unique request ID for support tracing (maps to CloudWatch log stream) example: req_abc123 securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: | API key issued per entity via Settings > Developers > API Keys. Each key carries scopes (e.g. orders:read, products:write). Bearer token format: Authorization: Bearer ark_live_ent__ Test keys use ark_test_ent__. Both are issued per entity via Settings > Developers > API Keys. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.