Every account's movement over [from

GET /postings/trial-balance

Every account's movement over [from, to), in code order, with the totals: what was debited, what was credited, and the net (debits minus credits — positive for a debit balance such as an asset or an expense, negative for a credit balance such as sales or a liability).

Total debits equal total credits, because every posting balances. This is the period's movement, not a closing balance: open from the opening stocktake for a balance to date. A period's movement carries its period-end revaluation (7110); the next period's carries its reversal. The general ledger begins at the opening stocktake: a period before it moves nothing, and a organization without one has an empty trial balance. The figure a bookkeeper checks against the accounting package, and what an accounting sync reconciles to.

Access

Requires financials:read.

How scopes come from roles: Scopes and roles. Getting a token: Authentication and app tokens.

AI agent tool

Agents call this as accounting_trial_balance (Accounting: Trial balance), in the accounting toolset. It only reads.

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

curl

curl -X GET 'https://accounting.getmanifold.io/postings/trial-balance?from=2026-10-20T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&to=2026-10-21T00%3A00%3A00.000Z' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN"

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://accounting.getmanifold.io/postings/trial-balance?from=2026-10-20T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&to=2026-10-21T00%3A00%3A00.000Z", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MANIFOLD_TOKEN}` },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const answer = await response.json();

Response · 200 · application/json

{
  "from": "2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z",
  "to": "2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "accounts": [
    {
      "account": "1200",
      "debitCents": 10560,
      "creditCents": 0,
      "netCents": 10560
    },
    {
      "account": "1400",
      "debitCents": 0,
      "creditCents": 3400,
      "netCents": -3400
    },
    {
      "account": "2200",
      "debitCents": 0,
      "creditCents": 960,
      "netCents": -960
    },
    {
      "account": "4000",
      "debitCents": 0,
      "creditCents": 9600,
      "netCents": -9600
    },
    {
      "account": "5000",
      "debitCents": 3400,
      "creditCents": 0,
      "netCents": 3400
    }
  ],
  "debitCents": 13960,
  "creditCents": 13960
}

The panel writes this call in other languages. It does not send it: Manifold's APIs do not take calls from a web page on another site, so run the call from your own code or terminal. The whole API as OpenAPI: accounting-manager.openapi.json. Base URL https://accounting.getmanifold.io.

Errors

Every refusal is a status and a JSON body whose _tag names it. A refused call changes nothing.

`401`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`Unauthorized` reason	The token is missing, expired or not one Manifold issued.	Get a fresh token and send the call again.
`TokenAlreadyUsed` tokenId	A single-use app token was already spent.	Mint a new token for this call.

`402`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`SubscriptionRequired` status	The organization's subscription has lapsed, so writes are refused.	An owner settles billing. Reads still work meanwhile.

`403`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`TenantRequired` userId	The token names no organization.	Choose the organization, then get a new token.
`ScopeRequired` required	The token's roles do not grant the scope this call needs.	Ask an owner or admin for a role that grants it.

`409`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`MirroredFromSource` source	This area is fed by your source system until the organization goes live.	Make the change in the source system, or go live first.

`503`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`RequestLogUnavailable` tokenId, reason	The service could not record the request, so it did nothing.	Try again shortly.

How refusals work everywhere: Errors.

Used in

Journal an additional cost on an order, step 19: The trial balance