Account categories

Account categories are high-level classifications that appear in a balance sheet or income statement. Sage Intacct provides ready-made account groups based on account categories for companies using the QuickStart template to simplify setup.

List account categories

get/objects/general-ledger/account-category

Returns a collection with a key, ID, and link for each account category.

SecurityOAuth2
Responses
200

OK

400

Bad Request

Request samples 
Response samples 
application/json
{
  • "ia::result": [
    • {
      • "key": "129",
      • "id": "Patents",
      • "href": "/objects/general-ledger/account-category/129"
      },
    • {
      • "key": "130",
      • "id": "Trademark",
      • "href": "/objects/general-ledger/account-category/130"
      },
    • {
      • "key": "131",
      • "id": "Copyrights",
      • "href": "/objects/general-ledger/account-category/131"
      }
    ],
  • "ia::meta": {
    • "totalCount": 3,
    • "start": 1,
    • "pageSize": 100,
    • "next": 4,
    • "previous": null
    }
}
Get an account category
get/objects/general-ledger/account-category/{key}
Returns detailed information for a specified account category.


SecurityOAuth2 
Request 
path Parameters
key
required
string
System-assigned unique key for the account category.


 
 Example:  178
Responses 
200
OK


400
Bad Request


Request samples 
Response samples 
application/json
{
  • "ia::result": {
    • "key": "129",
    • "id": "Patents",
    • "accountType": "Intangible Assets",
    • "normalBalance": "debit",
    • "href": "/objects/general-ledger/account-category/129"
    },
  • "ia::meta": {
    • "totalCount": 1,
    • "totalSuccess": 1,
    • "totalError": 0
    }
}