Ledger Account Categories

A ledger_account_category is a grouping of Ledger Accounts. Its balance is equal to the sum of the balances of all contained accounts. Ledger Account Categories can also contain other categories, which enables the creation of nested hierarchies.

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currency and currency_exponent for the category are visible in the balances object.

Related guide: Nesting ledger accounts

Attribute

Description

id string

Unique identifier for the ledger account category.

name string

The name of the ledger account category.

description string

An optional free-form description for internal use.

ledger_id string

The ID of the ledger this category belongs to.

normal_balance string

One of credit, debit.

This value is used to calculate the balance amount fields. If the value is credit, then the amount will be equal to credits - debits. If the value is debit, then the amount will be debits - credits.

balances object

The pending, posted, and available balances for the ledger account category. See Ledger Balances for more details.

metadata object

Additional data represented as key-value pairs.

live_mode boolean

This field will be true if this object was created with a production API key or false if created with a test API key.

external_id string

An optional user-defined 180 character unique identifier

created_at datetime

The datetime that the ledger account category was created.

updated_at datetime

The datetime of the last update to the ledger account category.

{
    "id": "f1c7e474-e6d5-4741-9f76-04510c8b6d7a",
    "object": "ledger_account_category",
    "name": "Combined View",
    "ledger_id": "a9d970da-207e-43da-b4d6-6e9ae01ba2cc",
    "description": null,
    "normal_balance": "credit",
    "balances": {
      "pending_balance": {
        "credits": 50000,
        "debits": 0,
        "amount": 50000,
        "currency": "USD",
        "currency_exponent": 2
      },
      "posted_balance": {
        "credits": 20000,
        "debits": 0,
        "amount": 20000,
        "currency": "USD",
        "currency_exponent": 2
      },
      "available_balance": {
        "credits": 20000,
        "debits": 0,
        "amount": 20000,
        "currency": "USD",
        "currency_exponent": 2
      }
    },
    "metadata": {},
    "external_id": null,
    "live_mode": true,
    "created_at": "2020-08-04T16:54:32Z",
    "updated_at": "2020-08-04T16:54:32Z"
}