# Quick Start

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**You must first sign up for a Qvalia account, and contact Sales or Support to get access and API setup!**
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### Get your API keys

Your API requests are authenticated using API keys. Any request that doesn't include an API key will return an `401` error.

**You will get your API key from Qvalia support, or the onboarding team!**

### Review the API Documentation

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[APIs](/api-documentation/apis.md)
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### Make your first request

To make your first request, send an authenticated request to the `/invoices` endpoint. This will create an `invoice`.

### Create outgoing invoice

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> [`https://api.qvalia.com/transaction/{accountRegNo}/invoices/outgoing`](https://api.qvalia.com/transaction/{accountRegNo}/invoices/outgoing)

Creates a new outgoing invoice that will be sent over the Peppol network

#### Request Body

See: [https://app.gitbook.com/o/-McAY8WYeIvMOpDL\_Y9w/s/S4MbRBCDJsKGrYU4ahuP/\~/changes/2/sample-data/api-sample-data/invoice#json](/sample-data/api-sample-data/invoice.md#json)

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{% tab title="200 Invoice successfully created" %}

```javascript
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "message": "invoice 12335675 sent",
    "order_id": ""
  }
}
```

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{% tab title="401 Permission denied" %}

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Take a look at how you might call this method using our official libraries, or via `curl`:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="curl" %}

```
curl --location --globoff 'https://api.qvalia.com/transaction/{accountRegNo}/invoices/outgoing' \
--data '{
  "Invoice": {}
}'
```

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{% tab title="Node" %}

```javascript
const body = {
  Invoice: {...}
};

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'POST',
  body
};

await fetch('https://api.qvalia.com/transaction/{accountRegNo}/invoices/outgoing', requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.qvalia.com/transaction/{accountRegNo}/invoices/outgoing"

body = "{
  \"Invoice\": {}
}"
headers = {}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=body)

print(response.text)

```

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```
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```

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