`entries.update`

Edit an entry using id, expectedRevision, idempotencyKey, merchant, date, amountMinor, currency, categoryId, paymentAccountId, type, status and notes. Closed periods cannot be changed. A matched entry keeps its amount, currency and account, and its type must follow the bank movement: money in is income, refund or transfer; money out is expense, fee, income_refund or transfer. Pass learn: false when putting an earlier value back, as Undo does, so the correction isn't retained as vendor learning.

POST/api/v1/accounting/entries.update

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:write

Who can call it

admin, finance

Retries

Idempotency key required, with expectedRevision

MCP

Not offered over MCP: Accountants' corrections grant isn't offered over MCP yet: phase 1 is read and comment only.

Fields

idstring (ID)Required
The record's ID.
expectedRevisionintegerRequired
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
idempotencyKeystringRequired
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
receiptReviewSourceobject
No other fields
duplicateDecisionenum
keep_separate
merchantstring
1–500 characters
datestring
A date, as YYYY-MM-DD.
currencystring
Three-letter currency code, such as CAD or USD.
amountMinorstring
An amount in cents (the currency's smallest unit), written as a whole-number string such as "1250" for $12.50.
Whole number written as a string
taxMinorstring
An amount in cents (the currency's smallest unit), written as a whole-number string such as "1250" for $12.50.
Whole number written as a string
categoryIdstring (ID) or null
The ID of a category, from categories.list.
paymentAccountIdstring (ID) or null
The card or account the purchase was paid with, from accounts.list.
typeenum
expenseincomeincome_refundrefundtransferfee
statusenum
Only include records with this status.
needs_reviewreviewed
notesstring
Notes kept with the record.
at most 10000 characters
splitsarray of objects
at most 50 items
learnboolean

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

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.update", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
    "expectedRevision": 3
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.update",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
        "expectedRevision": 3,
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Response

{
  "data": { … }
}

Try it

Checks your input with this action’s real schema and answers like the API, with synthetic data. No key needed, and nothing changes.

Input

POST/api/v1/accounting/entries.update

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

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.update", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
    "expectedRevision": 3
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/entries.update",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
        "expectedRevision": 3,
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Fields inside receiptReviewSource

Fields inside splits

Example

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