---
title: "Retrieve a transaction"
url: "https://docs.unified.to/accounting/transaction/Retrieve_a_transaction"
description: "API reference for Retrieve a transaction. Launch multiple pre-built Transaction integrations today with zero maintenance — all through a single API."
generated_at: "2026-05-29T17:52:17.715Z"
---
# Retrieve a transaction

 GET/accounting/{connection\_id}/transaction/{id}

## Parameters

**fields**string array 

id

created\_at

updated\_at

memo

total\_amount

tax\_amount

account\_id

reference

sub\_total\_amount

split\_account\_id

payment\_method

payment\_terms

customer\_message

type

lineitems

currency

contacts

organization\_id

raw

Fields to return

**raw**string 

Raw parameters to include in the 3rd-party request. Encoded as a URL component. eg. raw parameters: foo=bar&zoo=bar -> raw=foo%3Dbar%26zoo%3Dbar

**connection\_id**string  required 

ID of the connection

**id**string  required 

ID of the Transaction

## Returns

[AccountingTransaction](/accounting/transaction/model)

**id**string 

**created\_at**date 

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

**updated\_at**date 

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

**memo**string 

**total\_amount**number 

negative for CREDIT, positive for DEBIT

**tax\_amount**number 

negative for CREDIT, positive for DEBIT

**account\_id**string 

(reference to AccountingAccount)

**reference**string 

**sub\_total\_amount**number 

**split\_account\_id**string 

**payment\_method**string 

**payment\_terms**string 

**customer\_message**string 

**type**string 

eg. CreditCardCharge, Check, Invoice, ReceivePayment, JournalEntry, Bill, CreditCardCredit, VendorCredit, Credit, BillPaymentCheck, BillPaymentCreditCard, Charge, Transfer, Deposit, Statement, BillableCharge, TimeActivity, CashPurchase, SalesReceipt, CreditMemo, CreditRefund, Estimate, InventoryQuantityAdjustment, PurchaseOrder, GlobalTaxPayment, GlobalTaxAdjustment, Service Tax Refund, Service Tax Gross Adjustment, Service Tax Reversal, Service Tax Defer, Service Tax Partial Utilisation

**lineitems** array 

**currency**string 

**contacts** array 

**organization\_id**string 

**raw**any 

## 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.getAccountingTransaction({ connectionId, id, 
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
 });
```

### Node.js (axios)

```
const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/transaction/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8',
  headers: {
    authorization: 'bearer .....'
  },
  params: {
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
  }
};

const results = await axios.request(options);
```

### Java

```
AsyncHttpClient client = new DefaultAsyncHttpClient();

client.prepare("GET", "https://api.unified.to/accounting/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/transaction/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/transaction/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", 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/transaction/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw="

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

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
```

### PHP

```
$curl = curl_init();

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

### Ruby

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

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

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

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

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

### cURL

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