# Returns the item category with the given identifier.

`GET /inventory/item-categories/{id}`

Group: Inventory › Item Categories · Operation ID: `getItemCategory`

Returns one item category by id. The response uses the same schema as GET inventory/item-categories and POST inventory/item-categories/search.

Names are not unique, so there is no name-keyed variant of this endpoint. To look one up by name, filter the collection with GET inventory/item-categories?filter[name][eq]=Hardware, which returns the same schema in an array.

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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 item category to return. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getItemCategoryOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the item category. |
| `name` | string | yes | The display name of the category, for example 'Hardware'. Not unique: two categories can share a name, so use id to address one. |
| `description` | string | no | A free-form description of what the category covers. Absent when none was set. |
| `active` | boolean | no | Whether the category can be chosen on new items. When false the category is retired: existing items keep it and new ones cannot be assigned to it. |
| `idealTurnoverRatio` | string (decimal) | no | The target inventory turnover for items in this category, in times per year. For analytics only. A ratio rather than an amount, so it has no currency. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | string (date-time) | no | The date and time the category last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |
| `parentId` | string | no | The identifier of the category this one sits under. Absent for a top-level category. See id on GET inventory/item-categories/:id. |

## 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