`categories.update`

Rename, move (parentId, or null for top level), describe or deactivate a category with a revision check, or choose it for automatic filing with useFor (income, bank_fees, other, contractors, interest_income). A category with active subcategories can't be deactivated. Finance access required.

POST/api/v1/accounting/categories.update

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:write

Who can call it

admin, finance

Retries

Idempotency key required, with expectedRevision

MCP

accounting_update_category

Fields

idstring (ID)Required
The record's ID.
namestring
A display name.
1–100 characters
activeboolean
Whether the record is turned on.
parentIdstring (ID) or null
descriptionstring
A short description.
at most 500 characters
useForarray of enum values
incomebank_feesothercontractorsinterest_income
1–5 items
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

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.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/categories.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/categories.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/categories.update

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.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/categories.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/categories.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

Example

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