Create an item

An FTA e-invoice

To recap, even though an FTA e-invoice has several variations of invoice fields, it mainly contains:

• a single party
• item (at least one)

In this guide, we'll walk through creating an item.

Creating an item for an FTA e-invoice

An item represents a product or service that you sell. Creating items beforehand simplifies invoice creation by making them reusable.

To create an FTA e-invoice item, you need the following details:

Review item attributes here

1. Item name
2. Tax category
3. Commodity code
4. HS code (applicable if the item's commodity code is for a good or both)
5. Service accounting code (applicable if the item's commodity code is for a service or both)
6. Item code(optional)
7. Origin country(optional)
8. Standard item scheme(optional)
9. Description

The screenshot below from the dashboard succinctly shows the details required when creating a simple item (Cement).

On the API, once the required fields are entered into the request body, the response would read like this:

{
      "id": "item_01KS4RJY95WJR4BAJYS84CDFQ2",
      "created_at": "2026-05-21T07:56:46Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-05-21T07:56:46Z",
      "active": true,
      "name": "Cement",
      "description": "Cement",
      "item_number": "ITM26-141-075646757-47VTNB",
      "commodity_code": "G",
      "hs_code": "84137000",
      "tax_category_code": "N",
      "item_properties": []
    }