# List bank transactions

Operation ID: `bankTransactions`

Group: Banking › Bank Transactions

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`GET /banking/bank-transactions`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Lists bank transactions. To filter by bank account or legal entity, use POST banking/bank-transactions/search.

## 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
- `bankTransactionNumber` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `externalTransactionId` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `externalPaymentId` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `externalCreationDate` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between
- `currency` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `matchStatus` — 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, bankTransactionNumber, externalTransactionId, externalCreationDate, amount, currency, matchStatus, lastModifiedDate
- Selectable: id, bankTransactionNumber, externalTransactionId, externalPaymentId, endToEndId, externalCreationDate, description, externalDescription, additionalInformation, payeeOrPayor, amount, currency, matchStatus, notes, transactionPaymentMethod, accountName, sourceBankName, entityName, lastModifiedDate
- `page[size]` — Page size
- `page[cursor]` — Opaque continuation cursor

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data`, an array of bankTransactionsRow:

| 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 | The unique identifier for the bank transaction. |
| `bankTransactionNumber` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The bank transaction number. Absent until one has been assigned. |
| `externalTransactionId` | string | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The identifier this transaction has in the bank or aggregator it was imported from. Unique across transactions. |
| `externalPaymentId` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | no | The end-to-end payment identifier supplied by the integration, where the bank provides one. |
| `endToEndId` | string \| null | no | no | no | A payment reference recovered from the external transaction data by the integration. |
| `externalCreationDate` | date | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`) | yes | The date the transaction was created in the source bank, not the date it was imported. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `description` | string \| null | no | no | no | The description recorded on the transaction. |
| `externalDescription` | string \| null | no | no | no | The description as the bank supplied it, unmodified. |
| `additionalInformation` | string \| null | no | no | no | Any additional detail the bank supplied with the transaction. |
| `payeeOrPayor` | string \| null | no | no | no | The name of the counterparty the money went to or came from. |
| `amount` | decimal \| null | no | no | yes | The transaction amount, as a decimal in the transaction currency. A negative amount is money leaving the account and a positive amount is money arriving. |
| `currency` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The currency of the transaction. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. It governs the amount. |
| `matchStatus` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The reconciliation state of the transaction, computed from its matches. The states are 'unmatched', 'suggested', 'pending', 'matched', 'autoMatched' and 'needsAttention'. |
| `notes` | string \| null | no | no | no | Free-form notes recorded against the transaction. |
| `transactionPaymentMethod` | string \| null | no | no | no | How the payment was made, as reported by the integration. The values are 'ACH', 'WIRE' and 'Unknown'. |
| `accountName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The name of the linked chart-of-accounts account. Suffixed with '(Inactive)' when the account link is broken. |
| `sourceBankName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The name of the bank the account is held at. |
| `entityName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The name of the legal entity the owning bank account belongs to. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | date-time \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`) | yes | The date and time the bank transaction last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "bankTransactionNumber": "<bankTransactionNumber>",
      "externalTransactionId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "externalPaymentId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "endToEndId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "externalCreationDate": "2026-01-15",
      "description": "<description>",
      "externalDescription": "<externalDescription>",
      "additionalInformation": "<additionalInformation>",
      "payeeOrPayor": "<payeeOrPayor>",
      "amount": "19.99",
      "currency": "<currency>",
      "matchStatus": "<matchStatus>",
      "notes": "<notes>",
      "transactionPaymentMethod": "<transactionPaymentMethod>",
      "accountName": "<accountName>",
      "sourceBankName": "<sourceBankName>",
      "entityName": "<entityName>",
      "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