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Returns the status of all Plaid connected financial account ledgers on the platform.

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AccountingPackage

DebitCredit

FinancialAccountType

Error Message

Error Type

GeneralError

The type of accounting package the Instance
        uses as the source of truth for their books.

Child Ids

The Instance's children. Included in expanded responses.

Children

The datetime in UTC time from which the API will 
        sync an Instance's accounting data. Transactions or journal entries cannot 
        be entered before this date.

Entries Start

Name

The Instance's parent. Included in expanded responses.

Parent Id

Instance

Indicates if the ledger is a credit or 
        debit ledger.


Required if `financial_account_type` is not specified.

Whether line entries can be manually added or removed
        from the Ledger. Set to `false` if you control the source of truth for 
        the Ledger and want to restrict user changes, for example, if the Ledger is 
        for a bank account or a payments account you control (i.e. you are a neobank
        or using a Banking as a Service platform).

Editable

If specified, indicates that the ledger
        represents a real-world financial account.


If provided when creating a new
        Ledger object, you do not need to provide `debit_credit`, `type`, `sub_type`, or
        `report_cash_flow` values as we will provide default values.

Indicates that the ledger is one of the four system
        ledgers required for teal to work. In the default chart of accounts, these 
        are named one of: `Transfers Between Accounts`, `Opening Balance Retained 
        Earnings`, `Uncategorized Cash Inflow`, `Uncategorized Cash Outflow`. You 
        can update the names of these to fit your needs.

Is Required

The name of the ledger. Teal does not enforce any other
        conventions or patterns on naming schemes; however, we recommend you use
        concise, descriptive names, especially for financial account ledgers.

Expandable. If the ledger is a child ledger, the parent
        Ledger object.

If the Ledger is a child Ledger, the ID of the 
        parent Ledger object.

Whether Teal includes this ledger in the cash
        flow report.


Required if `financial_account_type` is not specified.

Report Cash Flow

Determines the display order in reports, ordered digit
        by digit, starting from the leftmost position. For example, `20010` will come
        before `3050`.


Teal does not enforce any other conventions or patterns on
        sort codes. However, it is recommended to adopt a common convention such as
        starting all ledgers of the same type with the same number (assets start with
        1, liabilities start with 2, etc.). The default CoA templates provided by Teal
        follow best practices for sort code numbering.

Sort Code

Indicates similar characteristics and accounting
        treatment for a group of ledgers within a `type`.


Required if 
        `financial_account_type` is not specified.

Indicates the purpose and location of the funds and
        value recorded in the Ledger and which report it is included in: `asset`,
        `liability` and `equity` ledgers are displayed on the balance sheet;
        `revenue` and `expenses` are displayed on the income statement.



        Required if `financial_account_type` is not specified.

Ledger

LedgerLinkStatus

LedgerSubType

LedgerType

Causes

Display Message

A url to Plaid's documentation about the error.

Documentation Url

Error Code

Request Id

Status

Plaid's suggested action to resolve the error.

Suggested Action

PlaidError

ProcessingStatus

SourceType

SubscriptionLevel

Date

Enabled

TransactionSource

Indicates the datetime in UTC when the 
        task was created.

Created Datetime

The IDs of Transactions successfully 
        processed by this task.

Created Transaction Ids

The Error object if any errors were encountered in the
        processing. If the processing task was created by a Plaid import, the Plaid
            errors will be passed through there. See [Plaid's documentation](https://plaid.com/docs/errors/)
            for more information on their error messages.

Error

The ID of the ledger that the transactions are being
        created for.

Ledger Id

The IDs of Transactions that were 
        modified by this task.

Modified Transaction Ids

The IDs of Transactions that were 
        removed by this task.

Removed Transaction Ids

The IDs of Transactions that were 
        skipped by this task.

Skipped Transaction Ids

The source account containing the transactions

Source Account Id

Indicates the datetime in UTC when the 
        task was last updated.

Updated Datetime

TxnProcessingTask

Returns the status of all Plaid connected financial account ledgers on the
platform.

OAuth2PasswordBearer

LedgerLinkStatusPage

TealErrorResponse

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Overview

Follow these steps to begin using the Teal API.

Initial setup

See Teal in action by building a real cash flow report.

Quickstart

Accounting infrastructure for SMB Neobanks and Vertical SaaS.

Use Cases

A glossary of accounting terms and Teal specific definitions

Core concepts

Chart of accounts

How Teal's auto-categorization pipeline works

Categorization

Crafting rules

Invoices and Bills

How to migrate data from QuickBooks into Teal.

QuickBooks migration

Managing ledgers

How to set opening balances to ensure accurate balance sheets.

Opening balances

Use our data integrations so that Teal can do the work of fetching and reconciling transactions from a 3rd party data source.

Integrations

Import via API

Handling business expenses in personal accounts.

Personal accounts

Build a banking feed style transactions page enriched with accounting data

Enriching Transactions

Reviewing transactions

Reports introduction

Cash flow report

View a company's revenues, expenses, and profits over time

Income statement

Balance sheet

How to build a ledger statement using Teal.

Ledger statement

How to build a general ledger report using Teal.

General ledger report

Fetching Teal data to add to your non-Teal reports

Enriching non-Teal reports

Customers need to be able to manually create and edit journal entries.

Journal Entry Interface

How and why to generate Excel exports from your Teal data

Excel exports

Authentication

Pagination

Expanding responses

Instances

Rate Limits

Lists all the Platform categorization rules.

List all Platform rules

Creates a new Platform categorization rule.

Create a Platform rule

Delete a Platform rule

Lists all the Instance categorization rules.

List all Instance rules

Creates a new Instance categorization rule.

Create an Instance rule

Delete an Instance rule

Create a Chart of Accounts Template

Lists all Chart of Accounts Templates for the Platform.

List all Chart of Accounts Templates

Retrieves details of an existing Chart of Accounts Template.

Retrieve a Chart of Accounts Template

Deletes a Chart of Accounts Template. Instances already using the Chart of Accounts Template will not be affected.

Delete a Chart of Accounts Template

Clones a Chart of Accounts Template and all its Ledger Templates.

Clone a Chart of Accounts Template

Creates a new Ledger Template within a Chart of Accounts Template.

Create a Ledger Template

Update a Ledger Template

Delete a Ledger Template

Retrieves the details of an existing Instance.

Retrieve an Instance

Deletes an Instance in the sandbox environment. To deactivate an Instance in a production environment, use the [Update Subscription](https://docs.teal.dev/api-reference/update-an-instance's-subscription) endpoint.

Delete an Instance

Updates the `start_date` or `name` of an Instance. `accounting_package` is not editable by design.

Update an Instance

Updates an Instance's `subscription`. Set to `tier0` to deactivate the Instance.

Update an Instance's subscription

Creates a new Instance based on the given parameters.

Create an Instance

Lists all Instances belonging to a Platform.

List all Instances

Assign a Bookkeeping Provider

Retrieves information about an existing Journal Entry.

Retrieve a Journal Entry

Updates an existing Journal Entry's details or Line Entries. When updating Line Entries in the Journal Entry, debit and credit amounts must equal.

Update a Journal Entry

Delete a Journal Entry

List all the Journal Entries an Instance.

List all Journal Entries

Creates a new Journal Entry object. The debit and credit amounts of the Line Entries must match.

Create a Journal Entry

Uploads a file and associates it with a Journal Entry.

Create a Journal Entry File

Deletes an existing file associated with a Journal Entry.

Delete a Journal Entry File

Retrieves an existing file associated with a Journal Entry.

Retrieve a Journal Entry File

List all Ledgers

Create a Ledger

Update a Ledger

Deletes a Ledger. Ledgers with line entries cannot be deleted.

Delete a Ledger

Sets the opening balance for a Ledger on the entries start date for the Instance, or updates opening balance if the Ledger already has one. Returns a journal entry.

Set a Ledger's opening balance

Returns the opening balance journal entry

Get all ledgers opening balances

Triggers a request for new transactions from a Ledger's data source, if it has one. Success or error messages will be sent via the `transactions.source` webhooks.

Check a Ledger for new transactions

Retrieves the Ledger's current balanced status and the most recent datetime it was balanced.

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