Authenticate and create a work order via UpKeep's public CMMS API.
domain: developers.onupkeep.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
POST an email/password to https://api.onupkeep.com/api/v2/auth/ to obtain a session token (best practice: use a dedicated api@yourcompany.com Admin user).
Include the session token on subsequent requests per UpKeep's documented auth pattern.
POST to the work-orders resource (following the same /api/v2/<resource>/ pattern used by /assets/, /customers/, /vendors/) with the required work order fields.
Use the includes query parameter to expand nested response data (e.g., pull related asset/location detail in the same call) instead of making follow-up requests.
For recurring/PM work orders, note that the legacy /preventative-maintenance endpoints were sunset as of the 2022-09-14 API version — use current Work Orders/recurrence fields instead.
Known gotchas
Auth uses session tokens from a login call (email+password), not OAuth2 or a static API key — rotate the dedicated API user's password carefully.
The legacy PM endpoints are sunset; integrations built against old UpKeep docs referencing /preventative-maintenance will break on current API versions.
Response expansion (includes) syntax accepts either repeated params or bracket-array notation — pick one consistently to avoid malformed queries.
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