# Bill commands: update

URL: /code/cli/bill/records-update · Id: `page:code/cli/bill/records-update`

> The Bill Verbs update as CLI commands, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Bill](/business/nouns/bill), one group of [Bill commands](/code/cli/bill).

### Bill.update
Changes the given properties of a Bill. [Verb page](/business/nouns/bill/update?interface=cli).

```text
npx startup-builder do Bill.update --json '<input>' [--try | --send | --do]
```

Emits `Bill.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Bill. |
| `organization` | [Organization](/business/nouns/organization) | No | The Organization the Startup owes. |
| `amount` | `money` | No | What the Bill asks for, in its currency. |
| `dueOn` | `date` | No | The date payment is due; an approved Bill is paid on it. |
| `account` | `string` | No | The chart-of-accounts code it is coded to, such as `expense.hosting`. |
| `file` | [File](/business/nouns/file) | No | The File the Bill arrived as: an email attachment or an upload. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `bill` | [Bill](/business/nouns/bill) | Yes | The Bill. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Bill.update --json '{"id":"bill_Zorj7Zkbtc","organization":"organization_v0SkRLrXCN"}'
```