# Search journal entries

Operation ID: `searchJournalEntries`

Group: Accounting › Journal Entries

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`POST /accounting/journal-entries/search`

Read-only: A read that takes its filters in the body. Changes nothing, and ignores Idempotency-Key.

Searches journal entries. Each journal entry in the response includes its lines.

## 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`. |

## Request body

Required, `application/json`: searchJournalEntriesInput.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `filters` | object | no | The filters to apply. A journal entry must match every filter you send. Omit to return all journal entries. |
| `filters.id` | string | no | Limits results to the journal entry with this identifier. |
| `filters.bookId` | string | no | Limits results to entries in this accounting book. See id on GET accounting/books/:id. |
| `filters.status` | string | no | Limits results to entries with this posting status. Accepted values: 'posted', 'unposted', 'voided'. Any other value matches no entry. |
| `filters.type` | string | no | Limits results to entries of this origin type, for example 'manual' or 'invoice'. |
| `filters.name` | string | no | Limits results to entries whose name contains this text. The match is case-insensitive. |
| `filters.description` | string | no | Limits results to entries whose description contains this text. The match is case-insensitive. |
| `filters.postingDate` | object | no | A window on the posting date. Both bounds are inclusive. Omit a bound to leave that side open. |
| `filters.postingDate.start` | date | no | The inclusive start of the posting-date window. Use format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `filters.postingDate.end` | date | no | The inclusive end of the posting-date window. Use format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `page` | object | no | The pagination controls. Omit for the first page. |
| `page.cursor` | string | no | The cursor from the previous response's pagination.nextCursor. Omit for the first page. |
| `page.size` | number | no | The number of entries per page. Defaults to 50. A value above 200 is treated as 200, not rejected. |

```json
{
  "filters": {
    "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
    "bookId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
    "status": "<status>",
    "type": "<type>",
    "name": "<name>",
    "description": "<description>",
    "postingDate": {
      "start": "2026-01-15",
      "end": "2026-01-15"
    }
  },
  "page": {
    "cursor": "<cursor>",
    "size": 0
  }
}
```

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (searchJournalEntriesOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `items` | array<object> | yes | The journal entries that match, most recently created first. An empty array when nothing matches. |
| `items[].id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the journal entry. |
| `items[].approvalStatus` | string | no | The approval status of the journal entry. Possible values: 'draft', 'pendingApproval', 'revise', 'approved', 'rejected'. Absent on entries that never entered the approval workflow. |
| `items[].bookId` | string | no | The accounting book this entry posts to. See id on GET accounting/books/:id. |
| `items[].description` | string | no | A free-form description of the journal entry. |
| `items[].name` | string | no | The display name of the journal entry. |
| `items[].postingDate` | date | yes | The date the entry posts to the general ledger. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `items[].reversalDate` | date | no | The reversal date recorded on the entry. Format YYYY-MM-DD. Set only on a reversed entry or a reversal entry. |
| `items[].reversalDescription` | string | no | The description recorded on the reversal. |
| `items[].reversalReason` | string | no | The reason recorded for the reversal. Possible values: 'accrualReversal', 'revaluationReversal', 'estimate', 'rebook', 'reversingSFD', 'other'. |
| `items[].status` | string | yes | The posting status of the journal entry. Possible values: 'posted', 'unposted', 'voided'. |
| `items[].type` | string | no | How the entry originated, for example 'manual', 'invoice', 'revaluation' or 'reversal'. A system-assigned value. |
| `items[].url` | string | no | A link to the source document this entry comes from. |
| `items[].lastModifiedDate` | date-time | yes | The date and time the journal entry last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |
| `items[].lines` | array<object> | yes | The debit and credit lines of the entry. |
| `items[].lines[].id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the line. |
| `items[].lines[].accountId` | string | yes | The general ledger account this line posts to. See id on GET accounting/accounts/:id. |
| `items[].lines[].credit` | decimal | no | The credit amount for this line, in its transactionalCurrency. A line has either a debit or a credit, not both. |
| `items[].lines[].debit` | decimal | no | The debit amount for this line, in its transactionalCurrency. A line has either a debit or a credit, not both. |
| `items[].lines[].description` | string | no | A free-form description of the line. |
| `items[].lines[].entityId` | string | yes | The legal entity this line posts to. See id on GET base/entities. |
| `items[].lines[].intercompanyPartnerId` | string | no | The intercompany counterparty for this line. Set on intercompany lines. |
| `items[].lines[].exchangeRate` | decimal | no | The exchange rate used to convert the line's transactional amount to its functional amount. |
| `items[].lines[].functionalCredit` | decimal | no | The credit amount for this line, in the functional currency. |
| `items[].lines[].functionalCurrency` | string | no | The functional currency of the posting entity. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. |
| `items[].lines[].functionalDebit` | decimal | no | The debit amount for this line, in the functional currency. |
| `items[].lines[].journalEntryId` | string | no | The journal entry this line belongs to. See id on GET accounting/journal-entries/:id. |
| `items[].lines[].lineNumber` | number | no | The line's sequential number within the entry. |
| `items[].lines[].lineType` | string | no | The classification of the line, for example 'standard', 'tax', 'offset' or 'fxRoundingDifference'. A system-assigned value. Absent when the line has no classification. |
| `items[].lines[].postingPeriodId` | string | no | The accounting period this line posts to. See id on GET accounting/accounting-periods/:id. |
| `items[].lines[].revaluation` | boolean | no | Whether a currency-revaluation process created this line. |
| `items[].lines[].sourceTransaction` | string | no | The identifier of the source transaction that generated this line, for example an invoice or payment number. |
| `items[].lines[].transactionalCurrency` | string | no | The currency of the line's transactional amounts. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. |
| `items[].lines[].transactionDate` | date | no | The date of the underlying transaction. Format YYYY-MM-DD. It can differ from the posting date. |
| `items[].lines[].reportingTags` | array<object> | no | The reporting tags assigned to this line. Set them with create or update. |
| `items[].lines[].reportingTags[].dimensionCode` | string | yes | The reporting dimension this tag is for. Possible values: 'department', 'businessUnit', 'team', 'location', 'region', 'employee', 'vendor', 'customer', 'valueCenter', 'custom'. |
| `items[].lines[].reportingTags[].modelId` | string | yes | The dimension record this tag points to, on the model that dimensionCode names. |
| `items[].lines[].reportingTags[].customDimensionId` | string | no | The custom dimension this tag belongs to. Present only for a custom-dimension tag. See id on GET base/custom-dimensions. |
| `items[].lines[].reportingTags[].isActive` | boolean | yes | Whether the referenced dimension record is currently active. A historical entry can have tags that point at records since made inactive. |
| `pagination` | object | yes | The pagination cursor for this page. |
| `pagination.nextCursor` | string | no | The cursor for the next page. Pass it as page.cursor. Absent on the last page. |
| `pagination.hasMore` | boolean | yes | True when more entries remain beyond this page. |

```json
{
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
        "approvalStatus": "<approvalStatus>",
        "bookId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
        "description": "<description>",
        "name": "<name>",
        "postingDate": "2026-01-15",
        "reversalDate": "2026-01-15",
        "reversalDescription": "<reversalDescription>",
        "reversalReason": "<reversalReason>",
        "status": "<status>",
        "type": "<type>",
        "url": "<url>",
        "lastModifiedDate": "2026-01-15T09:30:00.000Z",
        "lines": [
          {
            "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
            "accountId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
            "credit": "19.99",
            "debit": "19.99",
            "description": "<description>",
            "entityId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
            "intercompanyPartnerId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
            "exchangeRate": "19.99",
            "functionalCredit": "19.99",
            "functionalCurrency": "<functionalCurrency>",
            "functionalDebit": "19.99",
            "journalEntryId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
            "lineNumber": 0,
            "lineType": "<lineType>",
            "postingPeriodId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
            "revaluation": true,
            "sourceTransaction": "<sourceTransaction>",
            "transactionalCurrency": "<transactionalCurrency>",
            "transactionDate": "2026-01-15",
            "reportingTags": [
              null
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "nextCursor": "<nextCursor>",
      "hasMore": true
    }
  },
  "diagnostics": [
    {
      "code": "<code>",
      "message": "<message>",
      "severity": "error",
      "path": [
        "<path>"
      ],
      "details": "<details>"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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