# List advance payment categories

Operation ID: `advancePaymentCategories`

Group: Accounting › Advance Payment Categories

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`GET /accounting/advance-payment-categories`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Lists advance payment categories.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | string · 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`. |

## Query surface

- `id` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `entityId` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `name` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `allowManualPayment` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between
- `status` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `lastModifiedDate` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between
- Orderable: id, name, status, lastModifiedDate
- Selectable: id, entityId, name, allowManualPayment, status, lastModifiedDate
- `page[size]` — Page size
- `page[cursor]` — Opaque continuation cursor

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data`, an array of advancePaymentCategoriesRow:

| Field | Type | Required | Filter | Sort | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | Stable, platform-assigned id (a UUID) of the advance payment category — the public identifier used by GET accounting/advance-payment-categories/:id. Filter e.g. filter[id][in]=<id1>,<id2>. |
| `entityId` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | no | Id (a UUID) of the legal entity this category belongs to. An entity has at most one advance payment category, so filter[entityId][eq]=<entityUuid> is the way to find 'the' category for an entity. |
| `name` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | Display name of the category. Filter target: filter[name][like]=Standard, or filter[name][eq]=Standard Advance. |
| `allowManualPayment` | boolean \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`) | no | Whether an employee may be paid this advance manually (outside the standard payment run). Filter target: filter[allowManualPayment][eq]=true. |
| `status` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | Lifecycle status. Possible values: 'active', 'inactive'. Filter target: filter[status][eq]=active. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | date-time \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`) | yes | Instant the advance payment category last changed, as ISO 8601 UTC (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ). filter[lastModifiedDate][gte]=… plus sort=lastModifiedDate is a complete incremental-sync cursor. |

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "entityId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "name": "<name>",
      "allowManualPayment": true,
      "status": "<status>",
      "lastModifiedDate": "2026-01-15T09:30:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "hasMore": true,
    "nextCursor": "<nextCursor>"
  }
}
```

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure
- `401` — The request carries no valid access token.
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests from this client address. The response has no body and no `Retry-After` header.
- `500` — Internal server error