Explore the Commerce Transactions endpoints in Swagger.

You can use data from the Transactions endpoints to calculate key metrics, such as:

Transaction volumes
Average transaction volume
Average transaction value
Returns
Payouts

View the coverage for transactions in the Data Coverage Explorer.

Overview

Details of all financial transactions recorded in the commerce or point of sale system are added to the Transactions data type. For example, payments, service charges, and fees.

From the Transactions endpoints you can retrieve:

A list of all the transactions for a company:
GET /companies/{companyId}/connections/{connectionId}/data/commerce-transactions.
The details of a specific transaction:
GET /companies/{companyId}/connections/{connectionId}/data/commerce-transactions/{transactionId}.

Data model

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Identifier of the transaction, unique to the company.
totalAmount	decimal	Amount of the transaction in the base currency of the commerce or point of sale system.
currency	string See currency	Currency of the transaction.
transactionSourceRef	reference type	Reference to an event that triggered a new transaction linked to the original, or source, transaction. For example, a card payment that pays for an order will be linked to that order.
type	string	Types of transaction: `Unknown` `FailedPayout` — Failed transfer of funds from the seller's merchant account to their bank account. `Payment` — Credit and debit card payments. `PaymentFee` — Payment provider's fee on each card payment. `PaymentFeeRefund` — Payment provider's fee that has been refunded to the seller. `Payout` — Transfer of funds from the seller's merchant account to their bank account. `Refund` — Refunds to a customer's credit or debit card. `Transfer` — Secure transfer of funds to the seller's bank account.
subType	string	Non-standardised transaction type data from the commerce platform
createdDate	string See date	Date on which the transaction was first recorded in the commerce or point of sale platform.
modifiedDate	string See date	Date the transaction was last updated in the Codat system.
sourceModifiedDate	string See date	Date the transaction was last changed in the commerce or point of sale platform.

Example data

{
   "transactions":[
      {
         "id":"62fce855-4aff-41b0-8607-54e1cf4d35a4",
         "totalAmount":-18.42,
         "currency": "GBP",
         "type":"Refund",
         "transactionSourceRef":{
            "Id":"5bb8f0cb-168f-41ad-ab62-cd511a7e5282",
            "Type":"Order"
         },
         "createdDate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00",
         "modifiedDate":"2019-05-28T00:44:17",
         "sourceModifiedDate":"2019-05-28T00:44:17"
      },
      {
         "id":"d499e1e4-4c99-4454-a121-e45513d1bf2c",
         "totalAmount":24.695,
         "currency": "GBP",
         "type":"Payment",
         "transactionSourceRef":{
            "id":"cced057a-8087-4f53-8645-5a54608b3136",
            "type":"Order"
         },
         "createdDate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00",
         "modifiedDate":"2019-10-18T17:19:07",
         "sourceModifiedDate":"2019-10-18T17:19:07"
      },
      {
         "id":"23054bf1-20ec-43e0-95ad-582cc48dc013",
         "totalAmount":10.71,
         "currency": "GBP",
         "type":"Payment",
         "transactionSourceRef":{
            "id":"cced057a-8087-4f53-8645-5a54608b3136",
            "type":"Order"
         },
         "createdDate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00",
         "modifiedDate":"2019-10-18T17:19:07",
         "sourceModifiedDate":"2019-10-18T17:19:07"
      },
      {
         "id":"bc478aeb-2e7c-461a-9465-0b7b96455b34",
         "totalAmount":17.59,
         "currency": "GBP",
         "type":"Payment",
         "transactionSourceRef":{
            "id":"383c8987-3ddb-407f-8efb-17019c9f6bdf",
            "type":"Order"
         },
         "createdDate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00",
         "modifiedDate":"2020-11-09T18:25:48",
         "sourceModifiedDate":"2020-11-09T18:25:48"
      },
      {
         "id":"68ba5bef-0cc4-4f63-9d2f-002315d1e907",
         "totalAmount":12.76,
         "currency": "GBP",
         "type":"Payment",
         "transactionSourceRef":{
            "id":"383c8987-3ddb-407f-8efb-17019c9f6bdf",
            "type":"Order"
         },
         "createdDate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00",
         "modifiedDate":"2020-11-09T18:25:48",
         "sourceModifiedDate":"2020-11-09T18:25:48"
      }
   ]
}