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# Create a project invoice milestone

Scheduled invoicing for a fixed fee project. This is only available for projects that have a billing type of "fixed" or "fixed\_recurring".


## OpenAPI

````yaml openapi.json POST /project-invoice-milestones
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Ruddr API
  version: '1.0'
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.ruddr.com/master-subscription-agreement
servers:
  - url: https://www.ruddr.io/api/workspace
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Allocations
    description: Manage resource allocations for scheduling team members to projects.
  - name: Availability Periods
    description: Manage member availability periods for capacity planning.
  - name: Business Units
    description: >-
      Manage business units for organizing invoice settings and grouping clients
      and projects.
  - name: Client Roles
    description: Manage client roles and their billing terms.
  - name: Client Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing clients.
  - name: Clients
    description: Manage clients and their billing settings.
  - name: Companies
    description: Manage companies in the CRM pipeline.
  - name: Company Spend Tiers
    description: Manage spend tier classifications for companies.
  - name: Company Types
    description: Manage type classifications for companies.
  - name: Contact Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing contacts.
  - name: Contacts
    description: Manage contacts associated with clients, companies, and opportunities.
  - name: Cost Periods
    description: Manage member cost rate periods for profitability tracking.
  - name: Credit Notes
    description: View credit notes issued against invoices.
  - name: Disciplines
    description: Manage disciplines for classifying member skill areas.
  - name: Exchange Rate
    description: Get exchange rates for multi-currency workspaces.
  - name: Exchange Rate Periods
    description: Manage custom exchange rate periods for currency conversion.
  - name: Expense Categories
    description: Manage expense categories for tracking and reporting.
  - name: Expense Items
    description: Manage individual expense line items.
  - name: Expense Reports
    description: Manage expense reports submitted by members.
  - name: Holiday Schedules
    description: Manage holiday schedules for capacity and availability planning.
  - name: Holidays
    description: Manage individual holidays within holiday schedules.
  - name: Industries
    description: Manage industry classifications for clients and companies.
  - name: Invoice Items
    description: Manage invoice line item types for billing.
  - name: Invoices
    description: View invoices and their line items.
  - name: Job Titles
    description: Manage job title classifications for members.
  - name: Locations
    description: Manage office locations for members and projects.
  - name: Member Certifications
    description: Manage certification types that can be assigned to members.
  - name: Member Levels
    description: Manage member level classifications for career tracking.
  - name: Member Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing members.
  - name: Members
    description: Manage workspace members and their profiles.
  - name: Opportunities
    description: Manage sales opportunities in the CRM pipeline.
  - name: Opportunity Pipelines
    description: Manage pipelines for tracking opportunity stages.
  - name: Opportunity Lead Sources
    description: Manage lead source classifications for opportunities.
  - name: Opportunity Stages
    description: Manage pipeline stage definitions for opportunities.
  - name: Opportunity Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing opportunities.
  - name: Opportunity Types
    description: Manage type classifications for opportunities.
  - name: Payment Methods
    description: Manage payment method options for invoices.
  - name: Payments
    description: View payments received against invoices.
  - name: Pipeline Activities
    description: >-
      Manage pipeline activities associated with companies, contacts, members,
      and opportunities.
  - name: Pipeline Activity Types
    description: Manage activity type classifications for pipeline activities.
  - name: Practices
    description: Manage practice area classifications for organizing projects and members.
  - name: Project Budget Expenses
    description: Manage expense budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Budget Other Items
    description: Manage other budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Budget Product Items
    description: Manage product budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Budget Service Items
    description: Manage additional service budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Expenses
    description: Manage project-level expense line items.
  - name: Project Groups
    description: View project groups for organizing related projects.
  - name: Project Health Reports
    description: Manage project health status reports.
  - name: Project Invoice Milestones
    description: Manage invoice milestones for fixed-fee project billing.
  - name: Project Members
    description: Manage team member assignments on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Expenses
    description: Manage monthly expense budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Other Items
    description: Manage monthly other budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Product Items
    description: Manage monthly product budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Service Items
    description: Manage monthly additional service budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Other Items
    description: Manage project-level other item line items.
  - name: Project Product Items
    description: Manage project-level product line items.
  - name: Project Revenue Adjustments
    description: Manage earned revenue adjustments for projects.
  - name: Project Revenue Recognition Entries
    description: Manage revenue recognition entries for projects.
  - name: Project Roles
    description: Manage roles defined on projects for billing and staffing.
  - name: Project Service Items
    description: Manage project-level additional service line items.
  - name: Project Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing projects.
  - name: Project Tasks
    description: Manage tasks on projects for time tracking and planning.
  - name: Project Types
    description: Manage type classifications for projects.
  - name: Projects
    description: Manage projects and their settings.
  - name: Resource Placeholders
    description: Manage placeholder resources for allocation planning.
  - name: Security Roles
    description: View security roles for assigning member permissions.
  - name: Skills
    description: Manage skill classifications for members and resource planning.
  - name: Task Categories
    description: Manage task category classifications for project tasks.
  - name: Task Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing project tasks.
  - name: Task Templates
    description: Manage reusable task templates for projects.
  - name: Tax Rates
    description: Manage tax rates for invoicing.
  - name: Time Entries
    description: Manage time entries for tracking hours on projects.
  - name: Time Off Types
    description: Manage time off type classifications.
  - name: Timesheet Attestations
    description: Manage attestation statements members sign when submitting timesheets.
  - name: Timesheets
    description: Manage timesheet submissions for tracking hours across a period.
  - name: Utilization Target Periods
    description: Manage member utilization target periods for capacity planning.
  - name: Workspace Roles
    description: Manage workspace-level roles for billing rate configuration.
paths:
  /project-invoice-milestones:
    post:
      tags:
        - Project Invoice Milestones
      summary: Create a project invoice milestone
      operationId: create-a-project-invoice-milestone
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
                - projectId
                - invoiceItemId
                - date
                - name
              properties:
                typeId:
                  type: string
                  description: >-
                    The type of invoice milestone. Identifies whether the
                    milestone is one-off (`"custom"`, the default) or recurring
                    (`"recurring"`).
                  enum:
                    - custom
                    - recurring
                date:
                  type: string
                  description: The date of the milestone. Must be in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
                  format: date
                quantity:
                  type:
                    - number
                    - 'null'
                  description: >-
                    The quantity for calculating the `fee`. Required when `rate`
                    is provided.
                rate:
                  type:
                    - number
                    - 'null'
                  description: >-
                    The rate for calculating the `fee`. Required when `quantity`
                    is provided.
                fee:
                  type: number
                  description: >-
                    The total amount for the milestone. Required when `quantity`
                    and `rate` are not provided.
                name:
                  type: string
                  description: The name of the milestone (max 255 chars).
                projectId:
                  type: string
                  description: >-
                    The project ID (`uuid`) for this milestone. Must be a
                    `fixed` or `fixed_recurring` billing type project.
                invoiceItemId:
                  type: string
                  description: The invoice item ID (`uuid`) for this milestone.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: '200'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProjectInvoiceMilestone'
              examples:
                Result:
                  value:
                    id: 7f3e1a2d-94b8-4c6e-b3f1-d52a8e0c7b94
                    typeId: custom
                    date: '2026-04-01'
                    quantity: 1
                    rate: 15000
                    fee: 15000
                    name: Phase 1 Delivery
                    createdAt: '2026-03-03T09:15:00.000Z'
                    project:
                      id: d077258e-2158-4f34-aabd-97e971d0c18d
                      name: Cloud Infrastructure Services
                      client:
                        id: aa39afdb-e168-4956-b061-41c7c62e8c2e
                        name: Paul's Boutique
                    invoiceItem:
                      id: aba04832-216c-463e-8998-c520948f707c
                      name: Consulting Services
                    invoiced: false
        '400':
          description: '400'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationErrorResponse'
              examples:
                Validation:
                  value:
                    status: 400
                    message: >-
                      There was a problem processing your request. See errors
                      for more details.
                    errors:
                      - '''name'' is required'
                InvalidData:
                  value:
                    status: 400
                    message: >-
                      'projectId' '712a5c6a-5d3c-4c2b-abed-bbd73de7f986' does
                      not match a valid project.
      deprecated: false
components:
  schemas:
    ProjectInvoiceMilestone:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: The unique identifier for the object.
        typeId:
          type: string
          description: >-
            The type of invoice milestone. Identifies whether the milestone is
            one-off (`"custom"`, the default) or recurring (`"recurring"`).
          enum:
            - custom
            - recurring
        date:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: The date of the milestone. Will be in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
        quantity:
          type:
            - number
            - 'null'
          description: The quantity used to calculate the `fee`.
        rate:
          type:
            - number
            - 'null'
          description: The rate used to calculate the `fee`.
        fee:
          type: number
          description: The total amount for the milestone.
        name:
          type: string
          description: The name of the milestone.
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: The timestamp when the object was created.
        project:
          type: object
          description: The project this milestone belongs to.
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
              description: The unique identifier for the object.
            name:
              type: string
              description: The name of the project.
            client:
              type: object
              description: The client associated with the project.
              properties:
                id:
                  type: string
                  description: The unique identifier for the object.
                name:
                  type: string
                  description: The name of the client.
        invoiceItem:
          type: object
          description: The invoice item associated with this milestone.
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
              description: The unique identifier for the object.
            name:
              type: string
              description: The name of the invoice item.
        invoiced:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the milestone has been invoiced.
    ValidationErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code.
        message:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable error message.
        errors:
          type: array
          description: A list of validation error messages.
          items:
            type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer

````