---
title: "Create Tracking Category"
method: POST
path: "/accounting/tracking-categories"
tags: ["Tracking Categories"]
---

# Create Tracking Category

`POST /accounting/tracking-categories`

Create Tracking Category

## Query parameters

- `raw` boolean

## Headers

- `x-apideck-consumer-id` string, required
- `x-apideck-app-id` string, required
- `x-apideck-service-id` string
- `x-apideck-company-id` string

## Request body

- TrackingCategory
  - `id` string — A unique identifier for an object.
  - `parent_id` string, nullable — A unique identifier for an object.
  - `parent_name` string, nullable — The name of the parent tracking category.
  - `name` string — The name of the tracking category.
  - `code` string, nullable — The code of the tracking category.
  - `status` 'active' | 'inactive' — Based on the status some functionality is enabled or disabled.
  - `custom_mappings` CustomMappings, nullable — When custom mappings are configured on the resource, the result is included here.
  - `row_version` string, nullable — A binary value used to detect updates to a object and prevent data conflicts. It is incremented each time an update is made to the object.
  - `updated_by` string, nullable — The user who last updated the object.
  - `created_by` string, nullable — The user who created the object.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, nullable — The date and time when the object was last updated.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, nullable — The date and time when the object was created.
  - `pass_through` object[] — The pass_through property allows passing service-specific, custom data or structured modifications in request body when creating or updating resources.
    - `service_id` string, required — Identifier for the service to which this pass_through should be applied.
    - `operation_id` string — Optional identifier for a workflow operation to which this pass_through should be applied. This is useful for Unify calls that are making more than one downstream request.
    - `extend_object` object — Simple object allowing any properties for direct extension.
    - `extend_paths` object[] — Array of objects for structured data modifications via paths.
      - `path` string, required — JSONPath string specifying where to apply the value.
      - `value` unknown, required
  - `subsidiaries` object[] — The subsidiaries the account belongs to.
    - `id` string — The ID of the subsidiary.

## Response `201`

Tracking category created

- CreateTrackingCategoryResponse
  - `status_code` integer, required — HTTP Response Status Code
  - `status` string, required — HTTP Response Status
  - `service` string, required — Apideck ID of service provider
  - `resource` string, required — Unified API resource name
  - `operation` string, required — Operation performed
  - `data` UnifiedId, required — A object containing a unique identifier for the resource that was created, updated, or deleted.
    - `id` string, required — The unique identifier of the resource
  - `_raw` Raw, nullable — Raw response from the integration when raw=true query param is provided

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `402` — Payment Required
- `404` — The specified resource was not found
- `422` — Unprocessable
- `default` — Unexpected error

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[API](https://skmtc.net/apideck-libraries/apis/accounting-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/apideck-libraries/apis/accounting-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/apideck-libraries/accounting-api/revisions/5d72efd6f68f/schema)