400 Bad Request response: "Cannot update contingency fee matters"

[John W. Murray]

I am trying to update a matter to change its status to Closed.

However, I get a 400 error, which seems states that one "Cannot Update contingency fee matters"

I hope that there is some leeway on this.

Here is my payload in the put request:

PUT /api/v2/matters/1034873852 HTTP/1.1
Host: app.goclio.com
Accept: application/json, text/javascript
Content-Type: application/json

{

    "matter": {

        "status": "Closed"

}

If this error means that I cannot change the status on a matter that has a contingency fee, then I may be in trouble with my application.  Can someone clarify this?

thank you,

john

[John W. Murray]

When I update the matter through the Clio mobile app, I can change the status to closed.

However when I use my application to change the status to closed, I get a 400 error.

What do I need to do to change a contingency matter through the Clio API, or what exactly is the API complaining about with this error message?

[Aaron Pinch]

Hi John, presently it is not possible to make changes to contingency matters via the API. Sorry for the inconvenience

Aaron

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[Jacob M. Small]

Has there been any development here? I'm getting the same error that John reported in 2016 and I'm wondering if there's a way to programatically change matters that are set to contingency. Can the matter be changed FROM a contingency matter to another sort and then updated?

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[matthe...@clio.com]

Hi Jacob & John.

The details about how to update fee structures for matters is detailed here in the API V4 documentation.

https://app.clio.com/api/v4/documentation#tag/Matters  --> Contingency Fee

However there are details that need to be followed: 

Selecting the "ContingencyFee" type will specify a contingency fee percentage on a Matter and the award or settlement amount won at the completion of the case. A Matter can only have one definition of contingency fee. For associated objects, you can specify _destroy attribute to delete the rate.

One item that may be preventing your integration from applying a Contingency is that the account that you are working with may not be one of the plans listed below:

Contingency Fee Matters are available to subscribers of the Legacy, Boutique, and Elite plans.

What is the account ID that you are working with?  If the account is a starter plan, you will not be able to update a matter to a contingency billing model.

Matt

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