The organization's chart of accounts in natural code order

GET /accounts

The organization's chart of accounts in natural code order (90, 200, 1400), each with what holds it in place: skus, how many SKUs post to it in any role, and defaultFor, the roles it is the organization default for (1400 inventory, 4000 revenue, 5000 expense).

An account a ledger app keeps carries managedBy (the app and its own id for the account) and, when the app archived it, archived. q narrows to accounts whose code or name contains it. Never empty: every organization is provisioned with the default accounts.

Access

Requires financials:read or settings:read.

Any one of these scopes is enough.

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

AI agent tool

Agents call this as accounting_list_accounts (Accounting: List accounts), in the accounting toolset. It only reads.

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

curl

curl -X GET 'https://inventory.getmanifold.io/accounts?q=sale' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN"

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://inventory.getmanifold.io/accounts?q=sale", {
  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

[
  {
    "id": "acct_019cadd3-83c6-7d21-9a4e-6f1b2c3d4e5f",
    "code": "2300",
    "name": "Sales awaiting payment",
    "description": "On the cash basis: invoiced revenue and its tax, until the customer pays for it.",
    "createdAt": "2026-03-02T09:14:06.150Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-03-02T09:14:06.150Z",
    "skus": 0,
    "defaultFor": [
      "sales-awaiting-payment"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "acct_019cadd3-83f8-7b89-810d-568f90349401",
    "code": "4000",
    "name": "Sales",
    "description": "Income from goods and services sold.",
    "createdAt": "2026-03-02T09:14:06.200Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-03-02T09:14:06.200Z",
    "skus": 4,
    "defaultFor": [
      "revenue"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "acct_01a161c4-0a00-72db-a577-07bcb2a24026",
    "code": "4010",
    "name": "Wholesale sales",
    "description": "Income from trade customers.",
    "createdAt": "2026-10-22T04:00:00.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-22T04:00:00.000Z",
    "skus": 0,
    "defaultFor": []
  },
  {
    "id": "acct_019cadd3-845c-7876-813d-b58885d7fa14",
    "code": "5000",
    "name": "Cost of sales",
    "description": "The cost of the stock consumed by a sale.",
    "createdAt": "2026-03-02T09:14:06.300Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-03-02T09:14:06.300Z",
    "skus": 4,
    "defaultFor": [
      "expense"
    ]
  }
]

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: inventory-manager.openapi.json. Base URL https://inventory.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

Keeping the chart of accounts, step 1: See the chart you were born with