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In Codat, account transactions represent all transactions posted to a bank account within an accounting platform. For bank transactions posted within a banking platform, refer to Banking transactions.

Explore the Account transactions endpoints in Swagger.

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Overview

In Codat’s data model, account transactions represent bank activity within an accounting platform. All transactions that go through a bank account are recorded as account transactions.

Account transactions are created as a result of different business activities, for example:

Payments: for example, receiving money for payment against an invoice.
Bill payments: for example, spending money for a payment against a bill.
Direct costs: for example, withdrawing money from a bank account, either for cash purposes or to make a payment.
Direct incomes: for example, selling an item directly to a contact and receiving payment at point of sale.
Transfers: for example, transferring money between two bank accounts.

Account transactions is the parent data type of payments, bill payments, direct costs, direct incomes, and transfers.

Perform the following tasks using the Account transactions endpoints:

Data model

Field	Type	Description
Id	string	Identifier of the direct cost (unique to the company).
transactionId	string	Identifier of the transaction (unique to the company).
note	string	Additional information about the account transaction, if available.
bankAccountRef	See Reference types	Reference to the bank account the account transaction is recorded against.
date	string See Date	The date the account transaction was recorded in the platform.
status	string	The status of the account transaction: Unknown Unreconciled Reconciled Void
currency	string See Currency	Currency of the account transaction.
currencyRate	decimal See Currency rate	Conversion rate between the account transaction currency and the base currency used by the company.
lines	array Account transaction lines (see below)	Array of account transaction lines.
totalAmount	decimal	Total amount of the account transactions, inclusive of tax.
modifiedDate	string See Date	Date the record was last updated in Codat.
sourceModifiedDate	string See Date	Date the record was last changed in the accounting platform.

Account transaction lines

Field	Type	Description
description	string	Description of the account transaction.
recordRef	See Reference types	Links an account transaction line to the underlying record that created it.
amount	decimal	Amount in the bill payment currency.

Example data

{
      "id": "d1c5aed6-8f0b-4f9f-b381-b4ce551b9b82",
      "transactionId": "dc5b6989-ad59-43fa-ba0b-7b825020bdbc",
      "note": "Direct income b1dadf18-a666-44de-bd1a-4c3d85a8c270",
      "bankAccountRef": {
        "id": "dbcaf288-2b39-4b95-8ab3-42202ab15918",
        "name": "Current Account"
      },
      "date": "2020-12-02T00:00:00",
      "status": "Reconciled",
      "currency": "GBP",
      "currencyRate": 1,
      "lines": [
        {
          "description": "Payment for direct income $b1dadf18-a666-44de-bd1a-4c3d85a8c270",
          "recordRef": {
            "id": "b1dadf18-a666-44de-bd1a-4c3d85a8c270",
            "dataType": "directIncomes"
          },
          "amount": 37349.14
        }
      ],
      "totalAmount": 37349.14,
      "modifiedDate": "2022-05-16T13:55:30",
      "sourceModifiedDate": "2021-10-16T03:44:08"
    }

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Data model

Account transaction lines

Example data

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