diff --git a/backend/README.md b/backend/README.md
index 4d5a68ef..439618c0 100644
--- a/backend/README.md
+++ b/backend/README.md
@@ -120,7 +120,27 @@ Now you can run the script with
 ./run_lambda_local.sh
 ```
 
-Then run the script with the following command:
+In order to make a request to it, there is a specific format the request must be in, to
+emuate lambda. If using postman, the url you want is `http://localhost:8000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations`
+and you need to pass a body like this:
+
+```json
+{
+  "httpMethod": "POST",
+  "body": "{\"portfolio_id\": 4, \"housing_type\": \"Private\", \"goal\": \"Increase EPC\", \"goal_value\": \"C\", \"trigger_file_path\": \"2/4/portfolio_plan_properties-20230724T093542483Z.csv\"}",
+  "path": "/v1/plan/trigger",
+  "resource": "/",
+  "headers": {
+    "Accept": "*/*",
+    "Content-Type": "application/json",
+    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
+    "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
+  },
+  "requestContext": {},
+  "multiValueQueryStringParameters": null
+}
+
+```
 
 ```commandline
 
diff --git a/run_lambda_local.sh b/run_lambda_local.sh
index b6bba656..abcd5633 100755
--- a/run_lambda_local.sh
+++ b/run_lambda_local.sh
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 IMAGE_NAME="fastapi-lambda-image"
 TAG="test"
 PORT="8000"
-RIE_PATH="~/.aws-lambda-rie"
+RIE_DIR="$HOME/.aws-lambda-rie"
 DOCKER_ENTRYPOINT="$RIE_PATH/aws-lambda-rie"
 DOCKER_CMD="/usr/local/bin/python -m awslambdaric backend.app.main.handler"
 ENV_FILE_PATH="backend/.env"
-AWS_CREDENTIALS_PATH="~/.aws/credentials"
+AWS_CREDENTIALS_PATH="$HOME/.aws/credentials"
 
 # Step 1: Download the AWS Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator if it doesn't exist
 if [ ! -f "$RIE_PATH/aws-lambda-rie" ]; then
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ echo "Starting the Docker container..."
 CONTAINER_ID=$(docker run -d \
     --env-file $ENV_FILE_PATH \
     -v $AWS_CREDENTIALS_PATH:/root/.aws/credentials \
-    -v $RIE_PATH:/aws-lambda \
+    -v "$RIE_DIR:/aws-lambda" \
     -p $PORT:8080 \
-    --entrypoint $DOCKER_ENTRYPOINT \
+    --entrypoint "/aws-lambda/aws-lambda-rie" \
     $IMAGE_NAME:$TAG $DOCKER_CMD)
 
 # Output information