Update a category

Updated: October 23, 2026

PUT/accounting/{connection_id}/category/{id}

Updates the AccountingCategory identified by `id`. Provide the unified AccountingCategory fields to change in the request body.

Parameters

Payload

idstring

created_atdate-time

(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)

updated_atdate-time

(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)

namestring

descriptionstring

is_activeboolean

parent_idstring

type enum

Valid values:

"CLASS"

"DEPARTMENT"

"LOCATION"

"PROJECT"

"TASK"

"CUSTOM"

"EXPENSE"

"INCOME"

The kind of dimension

codestring

platform-side tracking code

organization_idstring

metadata array

raw

Returns

AccountingCategory

Response field	Type	Required	Description
`id`	string	No
`created_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`updated_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`name`	string	No
`description`	string	No
`is_active`	boolean	No
`parent_id`	string	No
`type`	enum	No	The kind of dimension Values: `CLASS`, `DEPARTMENT`, `LOCATION`, `PROJECT`, `TASK`, `CUSTOM`, `EXPENSE`, `INCOME`
`code`	string	No	platform-side tracking code
`organization_id`	string	No
`metadata`	AccountingMetadata[]	No
`metadata[].id`	string	No	The ID of the custom field definition (from the metadata/metadata endpoint).
`metadata[].slug`	string	No	The integration's API name (key) of an existing custom field. List valid slugs for this object with the metadata/metadata endpoint; unknown slugs are rejected by the integration.
`metadata[].value`	object	No	The field's value, typed by `format`: DATE as ISO-8601 (`YYYY-MM-DD`, or `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ` for date-times); NUMBER, PRICE and CURRENCY as a number; BOOLEAN and YES_NO as true/false; MULTIPLE_SELECT as an array of option values; otherwise a string.
`metadata[].namespace`	string	No
`metadata[].format`	enum	No	The data type of the custom field, which determines how `value` is formatted. Values: `TEXT`, `NUMBER`, `DATE`, `BOOLEAN`, `FILE`, `TEXTAREA`, `SINGLE_SELECT`, `MULTIPLE_SELECT`, `MEASUREMENT`, `PRICE`, `YES_NO`, `CURRENCY`, `URL`
`metadata[].extra_data`	object	No

Errors

Errors return the HTTP status code and a JSON body with statusCode, error (the short label) and message (a human-readable detail).

{
  "statusCode": 429,
  "error": "Too Many Requests",
  "message": "Too many requests to unified.to API; max requests per minute: N"
}

Status	Error	Meaning
`400`	Bad Request	The request was malformed or failed validation.
`401`	Unauthorized	The connection is likely broken; re-authorize it.
`403`	Forbidden	The connection is missing permissions or scopes.
`404`	Not Found	The requested resource does not exist.
`429`	Too Many Requests	Rate limit exceeded (see the two sources below).
`500`	Internal Server Error	An unexpected error occurred.
`501`	Not Implemented	Not supported by this integration.

Errors from the underlying integration pass through: the integration's status comes back as ours (429, 401, 403, 404 or 5xx), usually with its message. When the integration's error body is unclear, Unified extracts what it can and returns a clearer message.

429 Too Many Requests

A 429 has two possible sources:

The integration's own rate limit, passed through.
Unified's workspace limit: a rolling 60 seconds, set by plan, with the message Too many requests to unified.to API; max requests per minute: N.

const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  url: 'https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8',
  headers: {
    authorization: 'bearer .....'
  },
  data: undefined,
  params: {
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
  }
};

const results = await axios.request(options);

Code Samples

Node.js SDK

import { UnifiedTo } from '@unified-api/typescript-sdk';

const sdk = new UnifiedTo({
    security: {
        jwt: '<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>',
    },
});

const connectionId = '5de520f96e439b002043d8dc';

const id = '1234';

const results = await sdk.accounting.updateAccountingCategory({ connectionId, id, accountingCategory: { }, 
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
 });

Node.js (axios)

const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  url: 'https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8',
  headers: {
    authorization: 'bearer .....'
  },
  data: undefined,
  params: {
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
  }
};

const results = await axios.request(options);

Java

AsyncHttpClient client = new DefaultAsyncHttpClient();

client.prepare("PUT", "https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=")
  .setHeader("accept", "application/json")
  .setHeader("authorization", ".....")
  .execute()
  .toCompletableFuture()
  .thenAccept(System.out::println)
  .join();

client.close();

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

url := `https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=

req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("accept", "application/json")
req.Header.Add("authorization", ".....")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw="

headers = {
    "accept": "application/json",
    "authorization": "....."
}

response = requests.put(url, headers=headers)

PHP

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "accept: application/json",
    "authorization: ....."
  ],
]);

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["authorization"] = '....'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

cURL

curl --request PUT \
  --url 'https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/category/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=' \
  --header 'accept: application/json' \
  --header 'authorization: .....'

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