Rejects the expense report.

POST /accounting/expense-reports/{id}/reject

Group: Accounting › Expense Reports · Operation ID: rejectExpenseReport

Rejects the expense report, with a reviewMessage explaining why. The message is recorded against the decision and is what the submitter sees, so it is required. A report that is already rejected is refused with STATUS_CONFLICT. A refusal from the approval framework comes back as APPROVAL_FAILED, with its own message in reason. Rejecting is not deleting: the report stays, with its number and its audit trail. To withdraw a submission entirely, use POST accounting/expense-reports/:id/cancel-submission.

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
`Api-Version`	header	`"v1"`	yes	The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`.
`Idempotency-Key`	header	string	no	An opaque caller-chosen string (1-255 characters) that makes this request safe to retry. Repeating the same key with an identical request body replays the original response instead of re-executing - but only once that original request succeeded; a failed attempt re-executes on retry. Repeating the key with a different body is answered with 422. A key still in flight is answered with 409 - as is a key whose original request was interrupted before it finished, for a few minutes afterwards, until that attempt is presumed dead. A completed response stays replayable for 24 hours. The key is scoped to the caller, not to the action: reusing it for a different action is answered with 409 or 422 rather than treated independently. On read actions this header is ignored. On write actions that cannot offer the guarantee it is answered with `400 IDEMPOTENCY_NOT_SUPPORTED` rather than silently ignored.
`id`	path	string	yes	The unique identifier for the expense report to reject.

Request body

Required, application/json: rejectExpenseReportInput.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`reviewMessage`	string	yes	Why the report is being rejected. It is recorded against the decision and shown to the submitter.

Example:

{
  "reviewMessage": "Missing receipt for the hotel line"
}

Response

200 Success

Under data (rejectExpenseReportOutput):

Field	Type	Required	Description
`status`	string	yes	The approval status after the operation. The approval workflow decides it, so it is read back.

Response headers

Idempotency-Replayed — Present and true only when this response replays a previously stored one for the same Idempotency-Key, rather than reflecting a live execution. Absent on a live response - never sent as false.

Errors

Code	Status
`NOT_FOUND`	400
`STATUS_CONFLICT`	400
`APPROVAL_FAILED`	400
`IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_CONFLICT`	409
`IDEMPOTENCY_PAYLOAD_MISMATCH`	422

Statuses

400 — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND, STATUS_CONFLICT, APPROVAL_FAILED
401 — Missing or invalid access token
403 — Not authorized
404 — Not found
409 — The Idempotency-Key is still being processed by another request.
422 — The Idempotency-Key was already used with a different request payload.
429 — Too many requests
500 — Internal server error