Login

Sign in to your BILL sandbox developer account. In response, your API session is created and a sessionId is generated. Use the sessionId in all subsequent API calls to confirm that you are in a signed in session.

If your API session is inactive or idle for 35 minutes, the session expires and you are automatically signed out.

After signing in, making any subsequent call resets the 35 minutes timer. You are required to sign in again and generate a new sessionId only if the session is inactive or idle for 35 minutes. See API login best practices for more information.

You can also sign in to your BILL developer account with a user-generated token. The generated sessionId does not expire, and provides limited access to the BILL API. See Token-based sign in for more information.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

There are four protected endpoints require MFA for login with a trusted API session.

• Invite a vendor (not in the BILL network) with /SendVendorInvite.json
• Invite a customer in the BILL network with /SendInvite.json
• Add a vendor bank account with /VendorBankAccount.json
• Pay a vendor in the BILL network with /PayBills.json

Note: See Multi-factor authentication (MFA)/2-step verification in the BILL Help Center for more information about all the security measures in place for your BILL account operations.

Sign in with an MFA trusted API session is a three-step process.

1. Sign in to generate a sessionId value with /Login.json.
2. Generate an MFA challenge ID with /MFAChallenge.json. When you call /MFAChallenge.json, a token is sent to your mobile device registered with BILL.
3. Authenticate the challenge ID and token with /MFAAuthenticate.json. At this point, the sessionId (from step one) is MFA trusted. Note that the mfaId token expires at end of the current session or when you sign out.

Maintaining MFA for 30 days

In step three of the MFA process, if you set rememberMe as true in your /MFAAuthenticate.json request, the mfaId value is marked as trusted for 30 days. For these 30 days, set deviceId and mfaId as additional fields when you sign in (/Login.json).