# List journal entries

Operation ID: `journalEntries`

Group: Accounting › Journal Entries

[Open in the interactive reference](https://docs.api.lensing.ai/lensing/v1/endpoints/journalEntries)

`GET /accounting/journal-entries`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Lists journal entries. Each journal entry in the list has no lines. To read a journal entry with its lines, use GET accounting/journal-entries/:id or POST accounting/journal-entries/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
- `status` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `type` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `postingDate` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between
- `bookName` — 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, status, type, postingDate, bookName, lastModifiedDate
- Selectable: id, name, status, type, approvalStatus, postingDate, reversalDate, reversalReason, reversalDescription, description, url, bookName, lastModifiedDate
- `page[size]` — Page size
- `page[cursor]` — Opaque continuation cursor

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data`, an array of journalEntriesRow:

| 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 journal entry. |
| `name` | string \| null | no | no | no | The display name of the journal entry. |
| `status` | string | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The posting status of the journal entry. Possible values: 'posted', 'unposted', 'voided'. |
| `type` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | How the entry originated, for example 'manual', 'invoice', 'revaluation' or 'reversal'. A system-assigned value. |
| `approvalStatus` | string \| null | no | no | no | The approval status of the journal entry. Possible values: 'draft', 'pendingApproval', 'revise', 'approved', 'rejected'. Absent on entries that never entered the approval workflow. |
| `postingDate` | date | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`) | yes | The date the entry posts to the general ledger. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `reversalDate` | date \| null | no | no | no | The reversal date recorded on the entry. Format YYYY-MM-DD. Set only on a reversed entry or a reversal entry. |
| `reversalReason` | string \| null | no | no | no | The reason recorded for the reversal. Possible values: 'accrualReversal', 'revaluationReversal', 'estimate', 'rebook', 'reversingSFD', 'other'. |
| `reversalDescription` | string \| null | no | no | no | The description recorded on the reversal. |
| `description` | string \| null | no | no | no | A free-form description of the journal entry. |
| `url` | string \| null | no | no | no | A link to the source document this entry comes from. |
| `bookName` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The name of the accounting book this entry posts to. See name on GET accounting/books/:id. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | date-time | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`) | yes | The date and time the journal entry last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "name": "<name>",
      "status": "<status>",
      "type": "<type>",
      "approvalStatus": "<approvalStatus>",
      "postingDate": "2026-01-15",
      "reversalDate": "2026-01-15",
      "reversalReason": "<reversalReason>",
      "reversalDescription": "<reversalDescription>",
      "description": "<description>",
      "url": "<url>",
      "bookName": "<bookName>",
      "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