Financial analysis with transaction-level detail (low-level)

ACCT
Create budgets, predict runway, and provide other information based on key transaction information

1. Your customer authorizes accounting integration

In your application, have your user authorize their accounting integration via Merge Link. Merge will begin syncing data from your customer's accounting platform.

2. Retrieve chart of accounts

You can retrieve a Chart of Accounts from your user's accounting platform with the following endpoints:

  • Pull in all Ledger Accounts with
  • GET /accounts.

  • Pull in multi-entity scenarios with GET /companies.
Need help visualizing Merge's Accounting Models? Refer to our Help Center article.
3. Compile and categorize transactions (P&L, balance sheet)

To retrieve all transactions that have affected your customer's ledger, use the following endpoints: GET /journal-entries, invoices, expenses, payments, vendor-credits, credit-notes, transactions.

4. Get tracking categories

For references that add context to the transactions, like Classes, Departments, Vendors, and Customers, use GET /tracking-categories, and /contacts.

5. Construct transaction views

In your product, sum and categorize the transaction data how you wish.

6. Allow your users to be more strategic

With the work of analyzing transactions handled, your product can help your users drive more strategic business insights, whether it's runway analysis, budgets, or forecasting revenue.

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Key Models & Fields
transaction_type
number
total_amount
name
classification
current_balance
name
fiscal_year_end_month
Typical Sync Frequency
Daily
Industries
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