# Retrieve a sales return

Operation ID: `getAccountingSalesReturn`

Group: Accounting › Sales Returns

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`GET /accounting/sales-returns/{id}`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Retrieves a sales return. Use the sales return's id, not its salesReturnNumber.

The response includes the sales return's lines. POST accounting/sales-returns/search returns the same fields for each sales return.

## 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`. |
| `id` | path | string | yes | The unique identifier of the sales return you want to retrieve. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getAccountingSalesReturnOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the sales return. |
| `salesReturnNumber` | string | no | The RMA number, for example 'SR-1'. Absent while none has been assigned. |
| `status` | string | yes | The lifecycle status of the sales return. Possible values: 'draft', 'submitted', 'received', 'approved', 'completed', 'cancelled', 'rejected'. |
| `returnType` | string | yes | The resolution path for the return. Possible values: 'credit', 'replacement'. It cannot be changed once status moves past 'draft'. |
| `returnDate` | string | yes | The transaction date for the return. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `salesOrderId` | string | yes | The sales order this return is against. A sales return is always against exactly one sales order. See id on GET accounting/sales-orders/:id. |
| `currency` | string | yes | The currency of every amount on this record and its lines. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. |
| `reasonCode` | string | no | The customer-facing reason for the return. Possible values: 'defectiveItem', 'wrongItemShipped', 'damagedInTransit', 'customerRequest', 'duplicateOrder', 'notAsDescribed', 'other'. It is for reporting and does not affect how the return is resolved. |
| `notes` | string | no | Free-form notes for the return. |
| `returnTrackingNumber` | string | no | The carrier tracking number for the inbound return shipment. |
| `totalReturnAmount` | decimal | no | The total return amount, the sum of every line's totalPrice, in the return currency. |
| `returnFeeAmount` | decimal | no | The fee deducted from the customer refund, such as a restocking fee, in the return currency. Credit returns only. It is set either here or on the lines, never both. |
| `shippingRefundAmount` | decimal | no | The shipping charge refunded to the customer, in the return currency. Credit returns only. |
| `totalRevenueImpact` | decimal | no | The revenue reversed to the customer, the product-line revenue impact plus the shipping refund, in the return currency. Always 0 for the replacement path. |
| `revenueStatus` | string | no | The revenue reversal status. Possible values: 'notApplicable', 'notStarted', 'reversed'. 'notApplicable' is the replacement path, and 'reversed' is a completed credit return. |
| `inventoryReturnNumber` | string | no | The document number of the linked inventory sales return. Absent until one has been created. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | date-time | yes | The date and time the sales return last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |
| `lines` | array<object> | yes | The product lines being returned. |
| `lines[].id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for this return line. |
| `lines[].salesOrderProductLineId` | string | yes | The sales order product line this line returns. See salesOrderProductLineId on GET accounting/sales-orders/:id. |
| `lines[].lineType` | string | yes | The product line type, copied from the sales order line at creation. |
| `lines[].quantity` | decimal | yes | The quantity being returned. |
| `lines[].unitOfMeasure` | string | yes | The unit of measure, copied from the sales order line. |
| `lines[].currency` | string | yes | The currency of unitPrice, totalPrice and returnFeeAmount on this line, copied from the sales return. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. |
| `lines[].unitPrice` | decimal | yes | The unit price, copied from the sales order line at creation, in this line's currency. |
| `lines[].totalPrice` | decimal | no | The total price for the line, quantity times unitPrice, in this line's currency. |
| `lines[].returnFeeAmount` | decimal | no | The fee deducted from the customer refund for this line, in this line's currency. Credit returns only. Set only when fees are tracked per line rather than on the header. |
| `lines[].revenueImpactAmount` | decimal | no | The revenue reversed for this line, in this line's currency. 0 for the replacement path. |
| `lines[].lineStatus` | string | yes | The lifecycle status of this line. Possible values: 'pending', 'received', 'approved', 'completed', 'cancelled', 'rejected'. |

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
    "salesReturnNumber": "<salesReturnNumber>",
    "status": "<status>",
    "returnType": "<returnType>",
    "returnDate": "<returnDate>",
    "salesOrderId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
    "currency": "<currency>",
    "reasonCode": "<reasonCode>",
    "notes": "<notes>",
    "returnTrackingNumber": "<returnTrackingNumber>",
    "totalReturnAmount": "19.99",
    "returnFeeAmount": "19.99",
    "shippingRefundAmount": "19.99",
    "totalRevenueImpact": "19.99",
    "revenueStatus": "<revenueStatus>",
    "inventoryReturnNumber": "<inventoryReturnNumber>",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2026-01-15T09:30:00.000Z",
    "lines": [
      {
        "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
        "salesOrderProductLineId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
        "lineType": "<lineType>",
        "quantity": "19.99",
        "unitOfMeasure": "<unitOfMeasure>",
        "currency": "<currency>",
        "unitPrice": "19.99",
        "totalPrice": "19.99",
        "returnFeeAmount": "19.99",
        "revenueImpactAmount": "19.99",
        "lineStatus": "<lineStatus>"
      }
    ]
  },
  "diagnostics": [
    {
      "code": "<code>",
      "message": "<message>",
      "severity": "error",
      "path": [
        "<path>"
      ],
      "details": "<details>"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Errors

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

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `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