Invoice API v2 Rounding Error
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I am trying to create an invoice with the invoicing api v2.
It works most of the time, but sometimes the API claims that the tax total is wrong. I assume this is a rounding error, but I don't know what I can do about it.
My example:
Item 1: unit_amount 44.28 plus 19% tax ([Removed. Phone #s not permitted]/p>
Item 2: unit_amount 42.75 plus 19% tax (8.1225) = 50.8725
Item Total: 103.5657 => Rounded to 103.57 for the API request.
Item Total without Tax 87.03 => No Rounding
Tax Total: 16.5357 => Rounded to 16.54 for the API request. This is where the API claims the error is.
I do not see the problem. How do I resolve this?
This is a request that fails in the sandbox:
{
"detail": {
"currency_code": "EUR",
"invoice_number": "100822",
"invoice_date": "2021-04-30",
"payment_term": {
"term_type": "DUE_ON_RECEIPT"
}
},
"primary_recipients": [
{
"billing_info": {
"name": {
"surname": "name"
},
"business_name": "name",
"address": {
"address_line_1": "Hauptstr. 1",
"admin_area_3": "Ortsteil",
"admin_area_2": "12345 Ort",
"country_code": "DE"
},
"email_address": "sandboxemail",
"language": "de"
},
"shipping_info": {
"business_name": "Sanitär Kleber GmbH",
"name": {
"prefix": "Firma"
},
"address": {
"address_line_1": "Hauptstr. 1",
"admin_area_3": "Ortsteil",
"admin_area_2": "12345 Ort",
"country_code": "DE"
}
}
}
],
"items": [
{
"id": "000010",
"name": "Kaltwasserleitung DIN 1988 Teil2",
"description": "Materialausprägung: Polyethylen HD\r\nEigenschaft: UV-beständig\r\nMax. Wasserdruck: 16 bar\r\n\r\n(Vetriebstext aus Mat.stamm)\r\n",
"quantity": "1.000 ",
"unit_amount": {
"currency_code": "EUR",
"value": "44.28 "
},
"tax": {
"name": "Mehrwertsteuer",
"percent": "19.00 "
},
"item_date": "2021-04-30",
"unit_of_measure": "QUANTITY"
},
{
"id": "000020",
"name": "Warmwasserleitung DIN 1988 Teil2",
"quantity": "1.000 ",
"unit_amount": {
"currency_code": "EUR",
"value": "42.75 "
},
"tax": {
"name": "Mehrwertsteuer",
"percent": "19.00 "
},
"item_date": "2021-04-30",
"unit_of_measure": "QUANTITY"
}
],
"amount": {
"currency_code": "EUR",
"value": "103.57 ",
"breakdown": {
"item_total": {
"currency_code": "EUR",
"value": "87.0300000 "
},
"tax_total": {
"currency_code": "EUR",
"value": "16.5400000 "
}
}
}
}
This is the response:
{
"name": "INVALID_REQUEST",
"message": "Request is not well-formed, syntactically incorrect, or violates schema.",
"debug_id": "974bef5678d42",
"details": [
{
"field": "amount/breakdown/tax_total",
"value": "16.5400000",
"location": "BODY",
"issue": "calculation_error",
"description": "Tax total is invalid."
}
],
"links": [
{
"href": "https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/invoicing/#errors",
"method": "GET"
}
]
}
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