# Change job status

Change job status is a command in the HeadHoncho API. Move a job to another status by its name, slug or id. The move lands in the job's history with who asked for it.

Page: https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/change_job_status | Part of the HeadHoncho API docs: https://headhoncho.app/docs/api | Machine-readable: https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/openapi.json

## The request

Reference for **Change job status**, HeadHoncho API v1. It is a command, sent to the base address `https://api.headhoncho.app`.

`POST /api/v1/commands/change-job-status`

The key or app needs the **Jobs** area at **do**. It counts as a write call: 60 a minute for each key or connected app. See [rate limits](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#rate-limits).

It runs the app's own command `change-job-status`. Send an `Idempotency-Key` header with every call: the same key with the same body returns the first answer and runs nothing twice. See [the model](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/model#idempotency).

## Parameters

| Name | Kind | Required | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `job_id` | id, in the JSON body | Yes | The job id, or its number. | `job_1203` |
| `status` | text, in the JSON body | Yes | A status name or slug from Who am I. status_id works too. | `Dispatched` |
| `reason` | text, in the JSON body | No | Read on a move into Canceled: why. | `Customer found another mover` |

## What comes back

accepted, job_id, number, position, and status: where the job now stands.

It never deletes anything. It changes only what the command names, and it writes the change to the job's history with who asked for it.

## Errors that apply

| Code | Status | What it means |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [`missing_key`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#missing_key) | 401 | Send your key as Authorization: Bearer hh_live_... |
| [`unknown_key`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#unknown_key) | 401 | That key is not one we issued, or it was revoked. |
| [`expired_token`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#expired_token) | 401 | That token has expired. Refresh it, or connect the app again. |
| [`no_access`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#no_access) | 403 | This credential does not reach that. Ask the person who made it for access. |
| [`read_only`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#read_only) | 403 | This credential may read this area but not change it. |
| [`not_found`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#not_found) | 404 | No such record in the companies this credential reaches. |
| [`invalid`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#invalid) | 422 | Some fields were refused. See fields. |
| [`missing_idempotency_key`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#missing_idempotency_key) | 400 | Send an Idempotency-Key header on every command. |
| [`idempotency_mismatch`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#idempotency_mismatch) | 409 | This Idempotency-Key was used with a different body. |
| [`rate_limited`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#rate_limited) | 429 | Too many calls this minute. Wait and try again. |

## Related

- [Create job](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/create_job): Open a job or a lead in one company: the customer, the address, and optionally the job type, the time window and the technician.
- [Update job](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/update_job): Change a job's facts: the customer, the address, the schedule, the price, the job type or the notes. Only the fields you send change.
- [Assign worker](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/assign_worker): Put a technician or subcontractor on a job. If Job follow-up is on, the automation acts on it at once, as it would from the app.
- [Unassign worker](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/unassign_worker): Take a technician or subcontractor off a job. The ticket's cancellation reaches them the way it does from the app.
- [Add job note](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/add_job_note): Add a note to a job. It appends to the job's log and never overwrites.
- The same records in the app: [the Jobs panel](https://headhoncho.app/docs/jobs).
- How the API fits together: [the model](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/model), [API keys](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/keys), [errors](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors) and [the MCP server](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/mcp).

## Examples

### Answer

```json
{
  "accepted": true,
  "job_id": "job_1203",
  "number": 1203,
  "position": 88411,
  "status": {
    "id": "st_03",
    "name": "Dispatched",
    "slug": "dispatched"
  }
}
```

### cURL

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.headhoncho.app/api/v1/commands/change-job-status" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer hh_live_..." \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: 6f1d2c9e-1b7a-4c1e-9a52-0d3f8e4b7a10" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "job_id": "job_1203",
  "status": "Dispatched",
  "reason": "Customer found another mover"
}'
```

### Python

```python
import requests
import uuid

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.headhoncho.app/api/v1/commands/change-job-status",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer hh_live_...",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "job_id": "job_1203",
        "status": "Dispatched",
        "reason": "Customer found another mover",
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())
```

### JavaScript

```javascript
const response = await fetch("https://api.headhoncho.app/api/v1/commands/change-job-status", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: "Bearer hh_live_...",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "job_id": "job_1203",
    "status": "Dispatched",
    "reason": "Customer found another mover"
  }),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
```

### Your AI

```text
Tool: change_job_status
Arguments: job_id (id, required), status (text, required), reason (text, optional)
Access: do on Jobs
Hints: readOnly=false, destructive=false, idempotent=true, openWorld=false
Try asking: "Using HeadHoncho, change job status with job_id job_1203 and status Dispatched and reason Customer found another mover."
```