# Get Debit Memo

`GET /accounting/debit-memos/{id}`

Group: Accounting › Debit Memos · Operation ID: `getDebitMemo`

Returns the debit memo with the given identifier, including its lines. Use the debit memo's id, not its debitMemoNumber.

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## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | `"v1"` | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |
| `id` | path | string | yes | The unique identifier for the debit memo to return. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getDebitMemoOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the debit memo. |
| `debitMemoNumber` | string | no | The debit memo number, for example 'DM-1'. Absent while none has been assigned. |
| `creditMemoId` | string | no | The source credit memo this debit memo settles. Absent on a standalone debit memo. See id on GET accounting/credit-memos/:id. |
| `creditMemoNumber` | string | no | The number of the source credit memo. Present whenever creditMemoId is. |
| `debitMemoDate` | string (date) | yes | The date the debit memo was issued. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `dueDate` | string (date) | no | The date the debit memo falls due. Format YYYY-MM-DD. Computed from debitMemoDate plus the payment term's days. |
| `taxDate` | string (date) | no | The date the debit memo's tax was determined on. Format YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to debitMemoDate. |
| `approvalStatus` | string | no | The approval status of the debit memo. Possible values: 'draft', 'pendingApproval', 'revise', 'approved', 'rejected'. Only an approved debit memo has financial effect. |
| `debitMemoStatus` | string | no | The payment and credit coverage status. Possible values: 'unpaid', 'isOverdue', 'partiallyPaid', 'paidInFull', 'creditedInFull', 'disputed'. Absent before approval. |
| `debitMemoType` | string | yes | The reason key for the charge, for example 'orderEntryError'. The accepted keys are configured per tenant. |
| `currency` | string | yes | The currency of the debit memo. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. It governs every amount on the record. |
| `customerId` | string | yes | The customer the debit memo is issued to. See id on GET accounting/customers/:id. |
| `customerName` | string | no | The display name of the customer. |
| `customerNumber` | string | no | The customer number. |
| `entityId` | string | yes | The legal entity that issued the debit memo. See id on GET base/entities. |
| `entityName` | string | no | The name of the issuing legal entity. |
| `paymentTerm` | string | yes | The payment-term key applied to the debit memo. See code on GET accounting/payment-terms. |
| `purchaseOrder` | string | no | The customer's own purchase-order reference. |
| `customerMessage` | string | no | A free-text message shown to the customer on the document. |
| `externalDebitMemoId` | string | no | The identifier of this debit memo in an external source system. |
| `isMigrated` | boolean | no | Whether the debit memo was loaded from a previous system. When true, it is excluded from dunning and its journal entries are auto-reversed. |
| `debitGlAccountId` | string | no | The header debit GL account the journal entry posts to, an Asset-type account. See id on GET accounting/accounts/:id. |
| `billToAddressId` | string | yes | The bill-to address on the document. There is no endpoint for it. |
| `soldToAddressId` | string | yes | The sold-to address on the document. There is no endpoint for it. |
| `subtotal` | string (decimal) | no | The sum of the lines' pre-discount totals, in the debit memo currency. |
| `totalAmount` | string (decimal) | no | The total including tax, in the debit memo currency. |
| `totalTax` | string (decimal) | no | The total tax across all lines, in the debit memo currency. |
| `totalAmountDebited` | string (decimal) | no | The gross amount debited, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lineDiscounts` | string (decimal) | no | The sum of the prorated discount amounts across all lines, in the debit memo currency. |
| `unappliedCreditAmount` | string (decimal) | no | The credit still unapplied on the source credit memo, in the debit memo currency. Absent on a standalone debit memo. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | string (date-time) | yes | The date and time the debit memo record last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |
| `lines` | array of object | no | The lines of the debit memo, each debiting one line of the source credit memo. An empty array when the debit memo has no lines. All line amounts are in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the debit memo line. |
| `lines[].lineNumber` | string | no | The sequential line number within the debit memo. |
| `lines[].description` | string | no | A free-text line description, shown to the customer. |
| `lines[].productId` | string | no | The debited product. Absent on a free-text line. See id on GET accounting/products/:id. |
| `lines[].creditMemoLineId` | string | no | The source credit memo line this line debits. See lines[].id on GET accounting/credit-memos/:id. |
| `lines[].quantity` | string (decimal) | no | The quantity debited. A count, not an amount, so it has no currency. |
| `lines[].unitOfMeasure` | string | no | The unit-of-measure key, for example 'each'. |
| `lines[].unitPrice` | string (decimal) | no | The price per unit, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].adjustedUnitPrice` | string (decimal) | no | The price per unit after adjustment, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].listPrice` | string (decimal) | no | The list price per unit as it stood on the source credit memo line, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].listPriceTotal` | string (decimal) | no | The pre-discount line total, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].discountAmount` | string (decimal) | no | The discount from the source credit memo line, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].discountPercentage` | string (decimal) | no | The discount as a percentage of the list price. A percentage, not an amount, so it has no currency. |
| `lines[].totalPrice` | string (decimal) | no | The line total excluding tax, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].amountDebited` | string (decimal) | no | The amount debited for the line, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].totalAmountDue` | string (decimal) | no | The amount of the source credit memo line still available to debit, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].taxAmount` | string (decimal) | no | The tax on the line, in the debit memo currency. |
| `lines[].taxCode` | string | no | The tax code applied to the line. |
| `lines[].taxDate` | string (date) | no | The date the line's tax was determined on. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `lines[].taxMode` | string | no | How the line's prices are quoted for tax. Possible values: 'TaxInclusive', 'TaxExclusive'. |
| `lines[].taxExemptCode` | string | no | The customer-level tax-exempt code applied to the line. |
| `lines[].creditGlAccountId` | string | no | The line's credit GL account, the credit side of the journal entry. See id on GET accounting/accounts/:id. |
| `lines[].serviceStartDate` | string (date) | no | The first day of the service period the line covers. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `lines[].serviceEndDate` | string (date) | no | The last day of the service period the line covers, inclusive. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |

## Errors

| Code | Status |
| --- | --- |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 400 |

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `401` — Missing or invalid access token
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests
- `500` — Internal server error