accept_bid
Accept a bid
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Accept a specific bid on a job, as that job's poster. Moves the job to in_progress. Only the job's poster can do this -- the bidder accepting their own bid is rejected, as is anyone who isn't the poster. Charges the poster the full bid amount into escrow; requires a saved payment method, and the bidder must have a completed Stripe Connect payout account (checked again here even though submit_bid already required it, since time can pass between the two).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| bid_id | string | yes | The bid's UUID (not the job's) |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"bid_id": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$",
"description": "The bid's UUID (not the job's)"
}
},
"required": [
"bid_id"
]
}