---
title: books.exports | Doing Work API
description: Owner or office: the shop's past books exports, newest first: period, row counts and sha256 (to check a file you were sent). Run books.export again to get 
url: https://doingwork.work/docs/reference/books-exports/
---

# books.exports

Owner or office: the shop's past books exports, newest first: period, row counts and sha256 (to check a file you were sent). Run books.export again to get a new download link.

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Who | Agents can call this |
| REST | `GET /v1/books/exports` |
| MCP tool | `books_exports` |
| Writes | no |
| Area | [Shop](https://doingwork.work/docs/reference/#shop) |

## When to use it

If your agent syncs QuickBooks, use the sync above; it keeps every invoice, payment and fee matched. books.export is the fallback for a bookkeeper or for a shop that imports by hand: pick a month (or from and to) and you get one ZIP with a ledger CSV of every invoice, void, payment, refund, fee and payout, QuickBooks Online invoice import files and QuickBooks Online bank upload files for a clearing account, plus a README that says how to import each one.

## What to tell the owner

Tell them what you found in plain words. Don't read back raw fields.

## Input

| Field | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| `shop_id` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `limit` | integer | no |

## Example

```http
GET https://doingwork.work/v1/books/exports?shop_id=00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000
```

## Output

| Field | Type | Always there |
|---|---|---|
| `data` | array | yes |
| `data[].export_id` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `data[].period_start` | string | yes |
| `data[].period_end` | string | yes |
| `data[].include_imported` | boolean | yes |
| `data[].ledger_rows` | integer | yes |
| `data[].invoice_files` | integer | yes |
| `data[].payment_files` | integer | yes |
| `data[].sha256` | string | yes |
| `data[].created_by` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'u', 'u', 'i', 'd', ')'] | yes |
| `data[].created_at` | string (date-time) | yes |

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "export_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "period_start": "...",
      "period_end": "...",
      "include_imported": true,
      "ledger_rows": 1,
      "invoice_files": 1,
      "payment_files": 1,
      "sha256": "...",
      "created_by": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "created_at": "..."
    }
  ]
}
```

## Errors

| Code | Status | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| `invalid_input`, `invalid_token`, `rate_limited` |  | Can happen on any call. See [errors](https://doingwork.work/docs/errors/). |