---
title: "Create a chart of accounts"
method: POST
path: "/v3/classifications/chart-of-accounts"
tags: ["classifications"]
---

# Create a chart of accounts

`POST /v3/classifications/chart-of-accounts`

Create a new chart of accounts.

## Headers

- `sessionId` string, nullable — API session ID generated with `/v3/login`
- `devKey` string, nullable — Developer key generated with your BILL developer account

## Request body

- CreateClassificationChartOfAccountsRequestDto — Create a chart of accounts
  - `name` string, required — Chart of accounts name
  - `description` string — Chart of accounts description
  - `parentId` string — BILL-generated ID of the parent chart of accounts. You can set this field if this chart of accounts is a child object.
  - `account` object — Chart of accounts details
    - `type` 'UNSPECIFIED' | 'ACCOUNTS_PAYABLE' | 'ACCOUNTS_RECEIVABLE' | 'BANK' | 'COST_OF_GOODS_SOLD' | 'CREDIT_CARD' | 'EQUITY' | 'EXPENSE' | 'FIXED_ASSET' | 'INCOME' | 'LONG_TERM_LIABILITY' | 'OTHER_ASSET' | 'OTHER_CURRENT_ASSET' | 'OTHER_CURRENT_LIABILITY' | 'OTHER_EXPENSE' | 'OTHER_INCOME' | 'NON_POSTING', required — Type
    - `number` string — Number

## Response `201`

Create a chart of accounts response

- ClassificationChartOfAccountsResponseDto — ClassificationChartOfAccounts response Dto.
  - `id` string — BILL-generated ID of the chart of accounts. The value begins with `0ca`.
  - `archived` boolean — Set as `true` if the chart of accounts is archived
  - `name` string — Chart of accounts name
  - `description` string — Chart of accounts description
  - `parentId` string — BILL-generated ID of the parent chart of accounts. You can set this field if this chart of accounts is a child object.
  - `account` object — Chart of accounts details
    - `type` 'UNSPECIFIED' | 'ACCOUNTS_PAYABLE' | 'ACCOUNTS_RECEIVABLE' | 'BANK' | 'COST_OF_GOODS_SOLD' | 'CREDIT_CARD' | 'EQUITY' | 'EXPENSE' | 'FIXED_ASSET' | 'INCOME' | 'LONG_TERM_LIABILITY' | 'OTHER_ASSET' | 'OTHER_CURRENT_ASSET' | 'OTHER_CURRENT_LIABILITY' | 'OTHER_EXPENSE' | 'OTHER_INCOME' | 'NON_POSTING' | 'UNDEFINED' — Type
    - `number` string — Number
  - `createdTime` string, date-time — Created date and time
  - `updatedTime` string, date-time — Updated date and time

## Other responses

- `4XX` — List of errors.
- `5XX` — List of errors.

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