> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# One journal entry

> A single journal entry with its lines, by UUID.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json get /journal-entries/{id}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Cherry API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Cherry's public developer API — programmatic access to a business's books as
    Cherry keeps them: bank transactions with their categorizations, the chart
    of accounts, the double-entry journal, financial statements, legal entities,
    the tax-obligation calendar, and the fiscal health score.


    Authenticate every request with an API key: `Authorization: Bearer
    ck_live_…`. Keys are created in the Cherry app and are scoped to one
    business (tenant) — there is no tenant id in any URL. Keys carry a `read`
    and/or `write` scope; every GET needs `read`, mutations need `write`.


    Conventions: successful responses wrap the payload in `{ "data": … }`; list
    endpoints add `{ "meta": { "pagination": { limit, offset, nextOffset } } }`
    — pass `nextOffset` back as `offset` until it is null. Errors are `{
    "error": string, "reason"?: string }` with conventional status codes. Dates
    are `YYYY-MM-DD`; money amounts are numbers in the row's currency. Requests
    are rate-limited per key with token buckets (429 + `Retry-After` when
    exhausted); report generation has a smaller budget than plain reads.
servers:
  - url: https://api.trycherry.ai/v1
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Transactions
    description: Bank feed rows and their categorizations.
  - name: Accounts
    description: The tenant's chart of accounts.
  - name: Bank accounts
    description: >-
      Connected bank accounts — Plaid-linked and manual. Manual institutions are
      how developers without a Plaid connection bring their own accounts and
      transactions.
  - name: Bank statements
    description: >-
      Statement uploads — send a statement PDF/image and Cherry transcribes it,
      verifies the balances reconcile, and lands the transactions on a manual
      bank account. The no-export alternative to pushing rows yourself.
  - name: Journal
    description: The double-entry journal (entries and lines).
  - name: Reports
    description: Trial balance and financial statements.
  - name: Entities
    description: Legal entities behind the tenant.
  - name: Obligations
    description: The tax/compliance calendar Cherry tracks.
  - name: Health
    description: Cherry's composite fiscal readiness score.
  - name: Meta
    description: The API's own machine-readable contract.
paths:
  /journal-entries/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
        - Journal
      summary: One journal entry
      description: A single journal entry with its lines, by UUID.
      operationId: getJournalEntry
      parameters:
        - name: id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            format: uuid
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The journal entry
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/JournalEntry'
              example:
                data:
                  id: e7ad2f5b-4a6c-4d8e-9f0a-3b2c1d0e9f8a
                  entityId: 3f9c1e0a-8b2d-4e6f-9a01-5c7d2b8e4f10
                  entryDate: '2026-07-14'
                  description: AWS EMEA aws.amazon.com
                  sourceType: bank_feed
                  postedAt: '2026-07-15T02:10:44.000Z'
                  lines:
                    - accountId: d69c1e4a-3f5b-4c7d-0e8f-2a1b0c9d8e7f
                      debit: 129.99
                      credit: null
                      currency: USD
                      memo: Amazon Web Services
                    - accountId: b47a9c2e-1d3f-4a5b-8c6d-0e9f8a7b6c5d
                      debit: null
                      credit: 129.99
                      currency: USD
                      memo: null
        '400':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    JournalEntry:
      type: object
      description: >-
        One balanced double-entry posting. Lines debit and credit ledger
        accounts; debits equal credits within every entry.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        entityId:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        entryDate:
          type: string
          format: date
        description:
          type: string
        sourceType:
          type: string
          description: What produced the entry (bank feed, invoice, manual, …).
        postedAt:
          type: string
        lines:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/JournalLine'
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
        reason:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable explanation.
    JournalLine:
      type: object
      properties:
        accountId:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: Ledger account id — join against GET /accounts.
        debit:
          type: number
          nullable: true
        credit:
          type: number
          nullable: true
        currency:
          type: string
        memo:
          type: string
          nullable: true
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: ck_live_…
      description: >-
        Cherry API key, created in the app. Sent as `Authorization: Bearer
        ck_live_…`.

````