# accountants.requests.decide

Approve or deny an accountant's access or more-time request with id, decision, optional expiresInDays (30, 90 or null), accessExpiresOn for more-time approvals, note, expectedRevision and idempotencyKey. Administrator access is required. MCP calls also require accounting:admin; the web agent asks for approval before changing outside access. Direct API requests cannot perform these access-granting actions.

`POST /api/v1/accounting/accountants.requests.decide`

Permissions: `accounting:read`, `accounting:write`, `accounting:admin` · Roles: admin · Idempotency key required · Send `expectedRevision` · Reaches outside Oatmilk (email or a provider)

MCP tool: `accounting_accountants_requests_decide`

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string (ID) | Yes | The record's ID. |
| `decision` | enum | Yes | What you decided. One of: `approve`, `deny`. |
| `expiresInDays` | 30 or 90 or null |  |  |
| `accessExpiresOn` | string or null |  |  |
| `note` | string |  | A short note, kept with the record. at most 1000 characters. |
| `expectedRevision` | integer | Yes | The record's current revision, from the last time you read it. If someone changed the record since, the request is refused with a conflict so you can reload and check before trying again. at most 9007199254740991; greater than 0. |
| `idempotencyKey` | string | Yes | Any unique text you generate once per intended change, so a retried request only happens once. Send it as the Idempotency-Key header instead if you prefer; if you send both they must match. 8–200 characters. |

## Example request

```bash
curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/accountants.requests.decide \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
  "decision": "approve",
  "expectedRevision": 3
}'
```

Reference page: https://app.getoatmilk.com/docs/api/accountants.requests.decide