Expense Search — Proposed Guide

Planned API — Reference Only

Expense Search: Search could combine business filters with a bounded text query. It should return only authorized expense fields and should not expose…

Overview

Search could combine business filters with a bounded text query. It should return only authorized expense fields and should not expose full receipt contents by default.

Key concepts

Specify searchable fields, tokenization assumptions and exact-filter precedence. Use pagination for result sets.

Implementation considerations

A relevance-ranked query is not a complete accounting report. Define indexing delay and stale-result handling before a future implementation.

Proposed API behavior

GET /v1/expenses/search is an illustrative design for this topic. Path and field names may change before implementation. Access would require an authorized organization context and operation-specific permission; no public API or authorization grant is available here.

Illustrative query parameters
Name	Type	Description
query	string	Illustrative bounded search term; future searchable fields must be explicitly defined.
status	string	Proposed lifecycle value. Its meaning depends on the resource and must not be inferred from HTTP success.
limit	integer	Requested collection size. This example is not a promised service limit.
cursor	string	Opaque fictional continuation value; retain the original filters when following it.

Static example requests

Proposed, non-executing request examples

# Proposed request text only; this reserved host is not a live API.
curl -X GET 'https://api.remizen.example/v1/expenses/search?query=office+supplies&status=draft&limit=25&cursor=cursor_example_123' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'

Fictional response example

200 (proposed example)Static response fixture

Fictional documentation data only. No request was sent, record created, review performed, payment initiated or provider connection activated.

JSON

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "exp_example_123",
      "organization_id": "org_example_123",
      "merchant": "Example Office Supply",
      "amount_minor": 12550,
      "currency": "USD",
      "status": "draft"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "has_more": false,
    "next_cursor": null
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_example_123",
    "reference_only": true
  }
}

Illustrative error case

Review this failure case in context: A relevance-ranked query is not a complete accounting report. Define indexing delay and stale-result handling before a future implementation.

422 (illustrative; final error contracts are undecided)Proposed error fixture

Synthetic diagnostic example. Human-readable messages must not be used as stable programmatic contracts.

JSON

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "The proposed expense search operation requires review of its input or authorization.",
    "request_id": "req_example_123"
  }
}

Proposed data types

Illustrative field dictionary
Name	Type	Description
query	string	Illustrative bounded search term; future searchable fields must be explicitly defined.
status	string	Proposed lifecycle value. Its meaning depends on the resource and must not be inferred from HTTP success.
limit	integer	Requested collection size. This example is not a promised service limit.
cursor	string	Opaque fictional continuation value; retain the original filters when following it.

Expense Report History

Expense Management

Expense Export