# members.update

Manage organization accounting roles and active access.

`POST /api/v1/accounting/members.update`

Permissions: `accounting:read`, `accounting:write`, `accounting:admin` · Roles: admin · Idempotency key required · Send `expectedRevision` · Destructive: confirm with a person first

MCP tool: `accounting_members_update`

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `userId` | string | Yes | The ID of a person in your company. 1–200 characters. |
| `email` | string (email) | Yes | An email address. |
| `role` | enum | Yes | A person's access level in the company. One of: `admin`, `finance`, `contributor`. |
| `active` | boolean |  | Whether the record is turned on. Default `true`. |
| `expectedRevision` | integer |  | 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/members.update \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "userId": "example",
  "email": "finance@example.com",
  "role": "admin"
}'
```

Reference page: https://app.getoatmilk.com/docs/api/members.update