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CRATE: Credit rating

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The CRATE entity stores credit ratings. A credit rating classification used to assess the financial reliability of clients and companies.

CRATE: Credit rating

The CRATE entity stores credit ratings. A credit rating classification used to assess the financial reliability of clients and companies.

Default definition. This article describes the default CRATE definition shipped with DemandFlow. Administrators can add, remove, rename, or re-type fields, change which ones are required, and alter the layout from the Definitions screen in Settings. Your tenant's current schema may differ from what is shown here. To read the current definition at any time, GET the DEFINITION object whose id matches CRATE.

Entity properties

PropertyValue
Entity codeCRATE
Display nameCredit rating
PluralCredit ratings
Level250

Use cases

CRATE provides a controlled set of credit rating values assignable to CLIENT and COM records via the crate objectLookup in the Administration panel's Billing section. Credit ratings feed into the credit management workflow alongside credit limits, credit hold flags, and credit check dates.

Fields

Credit rating

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
nametextYesName
descriptiontext (multi-line)Description

Relationships

  • No declared relationships in the default definition.

Creating a Credit rating via the API

POST /v1/objects
Authorization: Bearer <your-pat>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "entity":   "CRATE",
  "level":    250,
  "comboKey": "SUB:<your-sub-id>|ENT:",
  "name":        "Example value",
  "description": "Example value"
}

Listing Credit ratings

GET /v1/entities/CRATE/SUB

See also

cratecredit ratingcredit ratings

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