# Creating an order

## Creating an order
`POST /orders` is the programmatic twin of forwarding a purchase-order
email: send the order document(s) and Mercura runs the same intake
pipeline. Accepted files, size caps, primary-file selection, `context`,
customer resolution, idempotency, and the async `JobAck` → poll /
webhook flow are all identical to `POST /tenders` — see the Tenders
chapter. The only difference is the request type: an order skips LV
parsing and runs the order-processing agent (metadata extraction + line
matching).

Version: 1.79.2

## Description:

  - `Creating an order` ()
    `POST /orders` is the programmatic twin of forwarding a purchase-order
email: send the order document(s) and Mercura runs the same intake
pipeline. Accepted files, size caps, primary-file selection, `context`,
customer resolution, idempotency, and the async `JobAck` → poll /
webhook flow are all identical to `POST /tenders` — see the Tenders
chapter. The only difference is the request type: an order skips LV
parsing and runs the order-processing agent (metadata extraction + line
matching).