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Create a manual journal entry

POSThttps://sandbox.api.lendeasy.ai/v1/journalentries Bearer token · CREATE_JOURNALENTRY

Posts a balanced manual journal entry with matching debit and credit lines. This route is restricted to accounting administrators; loan-servicing money movement never posts manual entries.

Request

curl -X POST https://sandbox.api.lendeasy.ai/v1/journalentries \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-30",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "comments": "Monthly accrual adjustment.",
  "debits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 22,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 14,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "dateFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd",
  "locale": "en"
}'

await fetch(`https://sandbox.api.lendeasy.ai/v1/journalentries`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`, "Idempotency-Key": idempotencyKey, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-30",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "comments": "Monthly accrual adjustment.",
  "debits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 22,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 14,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "dateFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd",
  "locale": "en"
}),
});

requests.post(
  f"https://sandbox.api.lendeasy.ai/v1/journalentries",
  headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}", "Idempotency-Key": idempotency_key},
  json={
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-30",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "comments": "Monthly accrual adjustment.",
  "debits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 22,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 14,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "dateFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd",
  "locale": "en"
},
)

{
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionId": "M90310"
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "400",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "validation.msg.validation.errors.exist",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "401",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "error.msg.not.authenticated",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "403",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "error.msg.not.authorized",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "404",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "error.msg.resource.not.found",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "409",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "idempotency.request.in.flight",
  "errors": []
}

Path & query parameters

Field	Type	Description
LendEasy-Tenant required in header	string	Tenant selector: lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, 1-64 characters. Exactly one instance; the only tenant selector honored.
Idempotency-Key optional in header	string	Optional stable key (1-50 chars) for this one logical mutation. Replays of a completed request return the original result with x-served-from-cache: true; an in-flight duplicate returns 409 with Retry-After. Omitted keys are server-generated per attempt.

Body parameters

Field	Type	Description
officeId required	integer
transactionDate required	string
currencyCode required	string
comments required	string
debits required	array<object>
glAccountId	integer
amount	integer	Decimal monetary amount encoded as a string.
credits required	array<object>
glAccountId	integer
amount	integer	Decimal monetary amount encoded as a string.
dateFormat required	string
locale required	string

Request

curl -X POST https://sandbox.api.lendeasy.ai/v1/journalentries \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-30",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "comments": "Monthly accrual adjustment.",
  "debits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 22,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 14,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "dateFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd",
  "locale": "en"
}'

await fetch(`https://sandbox.api.lendeasy.ai/v1/journalentries`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`, "Idempotency-Key": idempotencyKey, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-30",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "comments": "Monthly accrual adjustment.",
  "debits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 22,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 14,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "dateFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd",
  "locale": "en"
}),
});

requests.post(
  f"https://sandbox.api.lendeasy.ai/v1/journalentries",
  headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}", "Idempotency-Key": idempotency_key},
  json={
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-30",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "comments": "Monthly accrual adjustment.",
  "debits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 22,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "glAccountId": 14,
      "amount": 120
    }
  ],
  "dateFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd",
  "locale": "en"
},
)

{
  "officeId": 1,
  "transactionId": "M90310"
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "400",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "validation.msg.validation.errors.exist",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "401",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "error.msg.not.authenticated",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "403",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "error.msg.not.authorized",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "404",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "error.msg.resource.not.found",
  "errors": []
}

{
  "developerMessage": "Request was understood but rejected; inspect errors for field-level causes.",
  "httpStatusCode": "409",
  "defaultUserMessage": "The request could not be applied.",
  "userMessageGlobalisationCode": "idempotency.request.in.flight",
  "errors": []
}