Journal Entries

A journal entry is an accounting record that represents a complete, balanced set of debits and credits for a specific financial event. Journal entries are the building blocks of double-entry bookkeeping and serve as the primary mechanism for recording transactions in your General Ledger (GL). Each journal entry contains one or more journal lines, where each line represents either a debit or credit to a specific account. The sum of all debits in a journal entry must equal the sum of all credits, ensuring the entry is balanced.

Attribute	Description
idstring	Unique identifier for the journal entry
memostring	Optional human-readable description
datestring	Accounting date (determines accounting period)
journal_report_idstring	ID of the parent journal report
internal_account_id string	ID of the internal account
journal_linesarray	Line items (must balance to zero)
metadatastring	Additional data represented as key-value pairs. Both the key and value must be strings. See Metadata.
created_atdatetime	The datetime the journal entry was created.
updated_atdatetime	The datetime the journal entry was last updated

Journal Line

Attribute	Description
line_number string	Sequence number
account_code string	General ledger account code
direction string	Either debit or credit
amount integer	Amount in smallest currency unit (cents)
currency string	ISO 4217 three-letter currency code
memo string	Optional line-specific descriptio

{
    "id": "5a051efe-71b4-4b38-a201-2a81e0f9079b",
    "object": "journal_entry",
    "live_mode": true,
    "memo": "Payment processing fees",
    "journal_report_id": "182bd5e5-6e1a-4fe4-a799-aa6d9a6ab26e",
    "internal_account_id": "447ec7ae-be13-4717-985f-90f553fab5cc",
    "date": "2025-03-01",
    "journal_lines": [
      {
        "line_number": 1,
        "account_code": "1000",
        "amount": 100000,
        "direction": "credit",
        "currency": "USD",
        "memo": null
      },
      {
        "line_number": 2,
        "account_code": "5000",
        "amount": 100000,
        "direction": "debit",
        "currency": "USD",
        "memo": null
      }
    ],
    "metadata": {},
    "created_at": "2025-03-01T00:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2025-03-01T00:00:00Z"
  }