---
title: "Switch Selected Account"
method: POST
path: "/iserver/account"
tags: ["tradingAccounts"]
---

# Switch Selected Account

`POST /iserver/account`

Switch the active account for how you request data. Only available for financial advisors and multi-account structures.

## Request body

- object
  - `acctId` string — Identifier for the unique account to retrieve information from.

## Response `200`

Validates the account swapped to.

- SetAccountResponse
  - `set` boolean — Confirms that the account change was set
  - `acctId` string — Confirms the account switched to.

## Other responses

- `401` — Missing, invalid, or unparseable Authorization token.
- `500` — Internal Server Error. Unable to process request if incoming values are not valid. For example accountId is not correct
- `503` — service is unavailable. For example if request takes more than 10s due to some internal service unavailability, request aborted and this status returned

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