> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Retrieve an account > Returns one of your accounts from our records, without asking the broker. Takes no query parameters. For what the broker holds in it, read its balance and positions. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.json get /v1/accounts/{account} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Matamba Gateway version: '1' contact: name: Matamba Gateway partner support email: partners@matambaintelligence.com url: https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/support description: >- Open brokerage accounts for your customers, fund them from your wallet, place and track orders, and read each account's records at the broker. Amounts are integers in kobo, except the two average prices, which are decimal strings of kobo. Every error includes a `code` you can use in your logic. A list of values, such as an order state or an error `code`, can gain values: if you generate a client, have it accept values it doesn't know (in OpenAPI Generator, `enumUnknownDefaultCase`). servers: - url: https://{host} description: The sandbox and live environments each have their own host and API keys. variables: host: default: sandbox-host.invalid description: We send you the host along with your API keys. security: - bearer: [] tags: - name: Accounts description: The accounts you can trade for, and the broker's records for each one. - name: Orders description: >- Estimate, place, retrieve and cancel orders. We store each order before we send it to the exchange, and we send it only once. - name: Events description: >- Each change to your orders, applications and allocations creates an event. We send the same event bodies to your webhook endpoint. See [Webhooks](/webhooks) for how to verify them. - name: Applications description: Open a brokerage account for your customer. - name: Reference description: Code lists from the broker that you use in account applications. - name: Wallet description: >- Your wallet, and the allocations you make from it to your customers' accounts. - name: Limits description: >- What you may send: the limits on your requests and your day, and how much of each you've used. - name: Keys description: Revoke a key that has leaked, yourself, at any hour. paths: /v1/accounts/{account}: parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Account' get: tags: - Accounts summary: Retrieve an account description: >- Returns one of your accounts from our records, without asking the broker. Takes no query parameters. For what the broker holds in it, read its balance and positions. operationId: getAccount responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/Account' '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/error.invalid_request' description: '`invalid_request`: this endpoint takes no query parameters.' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/error.unauthorized' description: '`unauthorized`' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/error.insufficient_scope' description: '`insufficient_scope`: this key doesn''t have the `read` scope.' '404': $ref: '#/components/responses/error.account_not_found' description: >- `account_not_found`: you have no account with this code. An account of someone else's returns the same. '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/error.rate_limited' description: '`rate_limited`' '500': $ref: '#/components/responses/error.internal_error' description: '`internal_error`' '503': $ref: '#/components/responses/error.service_unavailable' description: '`service_unavailable`' security: - bearer: - read components: parameters: Account: name: account in: path required: true description: One of your account codes, from GET /v1/accounts. schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccountCode' example: '1000000001' responses: Account: description: One of your accounts. headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Account' example: object: account code: '1000000077' application: app_5n2c6xq4ld7kz3pw7vby created_at: '2026-09-25T07:41:30Z' error.invalid_request: description: 'An error: `invalid_request`.' headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: invalid_request: summary: invalid_request value: error: type: invalid_request_error code: invalid_request message: The request could not be read. doc_url: https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/errors#invalid_request error.unauthorized: description: 'An error: `unauthorized`.' headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' WWW-Authenticate: $ref: '#/components/headers/WWWAuthenticate' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: unauthorized: summary: unauthorized value: error: type: authentication_error code: unauthorized message: Invalid credentials. doc_url: https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/errors#unauthorized error.insufficient_scope: description: 'An error: `insufficient_scope`.' headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: insufficient_scope: summary: insufficient_scope value: error: type: permission_error code: insufficient_scope message: >- This API key does not have the scope this request requires. Nothing was done. doc_url: >- https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/errors#insufficient_scope error.account_not_found: description: 'An error: `account_not_found`.' headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: account_not_found: summary: account_not_found value: error: type: invalid_request_error code: account_not_found message: No such account. doc_url: >- https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/errors#account_not_found error.rate_limited: description: 'An error: `rate_limited`.' headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' Retry-After: $ref: '#/components/headers/RetryAfter' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: rate_limited: summary: rate_limited value: error: type: rate_limit_error code: rate_limited message: >- Too many requests. Nothing was done. Send the same request again after the Retry-After interval. doc_url: https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/errors#rate_limited error.internal_error: description: 'An error: `internal_error`.' headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: internal_error: summary: internal_error value: error: type: api_error code: internal_error message: >- The gateway encountered an internal error. Send the same request again, exactly as you sent it. doc_url: https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/errors#internal_error error.service_unavailable: description: 'An error: `service_unavailable`.' headers: x-request-id: $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId' Cache-Control: $ref: '#/components/headers/CacheControl' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: service_unavailable: summary: service_unavailable value: error: type: api_error code: service_unavailable message: >- The gateway is temporarily unable to process this request. Send the same request again, with the same Idempotency-Key if it has one. doc_url: >- https://docs.matambaintelligence.com/errors#service_unavailable schemas: AccountCode: type: string pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9]{1,64}$ description: An account code. Case-insensitive on input, and returned in uppercase. Account: type: object required: - object - code - application - created_at properties: object: type: string const: account code: type: string description: The code to pass as `account` in an order or allocation. application: type: - string - 'null' description: >- The application that opened the account, when you opened it through the API. Null when we added the account for you. pattern: ^app_[a-z2-7]{20}$ created_at: type: string format: date-time description: When the account became yours to trade for through the API. Error: type: object required: - error properties: error: type: object required: - type - code - message - doc_url properties: type: type: string description: >- The category of the error. New values can be added: handle an unrecognised value with a safe default. enum: - authentication_error - invalid_request_error - idempotency_error - order_error - application_error - wallet_error - limit_error - rate_limit_error - permission_error - api_error code: type: string description: >- The error code. Use it in your logic; it doesn't change. New values can be added: handle an unrecognised value with a safe default. enum: - unauthorized - not_found - method_not_allowed - unsupported_media_type - request_too_large - invalid_request - missing_required_field - unknown_account - duplicate_order - order_not_found - account_not_found - exchange_unavailable - order_not_sent - order_rejected - similar_order_unresolved - order_not_cancelable - cancel_unconfirmed - settlement_lockout - account_not_at_broker - exchange_error - feature_not_enabled - insufficient_scope - application_rejected - duplicate_application - application_not_found - application_not_sent - wallet_too_low - allocation_rejected - duplicate_allocation - allocation_not_found - allocation_not_sent - similar_allocation_unresolved - rate_limited - unknown_symbol - limit_exceeded - service_unavailable - internal_error - trading_paused - outcome_not_recorded message: type: string description: >- A human-readable description of the error, for your logs. The wording can change. param: type: string description: >- The field, parameter or header that caused the error. Absent when the error isn't tied to a single field. reject_reason: type: string description: >- Why the exchange or broker rejected the request. Included with `order_rejected`, `application_rejected` and `allocation_rejected`, and takes the same values as the `reject_reason` field on the order, application or allocation. order: type: string description: >- The order the error is about, when it names one: the order that owns the `Idempotency-Key` for `duplicate_order`, the unresolved order for `similar_order_unresolved`, the order recorded for `order_rejected` and `order_not_sent`, and the order your request made for `outcome_not_recorded`. pattern: ^ord_[a-z2-7]{20}$ application: type: string description: >- The application the error is about, when it names one: the one that owns the key for `duplicate_application`, the one recorded for `application_rejected` and `application_not_sent`, and the one your request made for `outcome_not_recorded`. pattern: ^app_[a-z2-7]{20}$ allocation: type: string description: >- The allocation the error is about, when it names one: the one that owns the key for `duplicate_allocation`, the unresolved one for `similar_allocation_unresolved`, the one recorded for `allocation_rejected`, `allocation_not_sent` and `feature_not_enabled`, and the one your request made for `outcome_not_recorded`. pattern: ^alc_[a-z2-7]{20}$ doc_url: type: string format: uri description: A link to the documentation for this error code. description: What went wrong, and the code to act on. headers: RequestId: description: >- A unique identifier for this request. Include it when you [contact us](/support#report-a-problem). schema: type: string CacheControl: description: Always `no-store`. schema: type: string const: no-store WWWAuthenticate: description: 'Sent with 401: `Bearer realm="Matamba Gateway"`.' schema: type: string RetryAfter: description: >- The number of seconds to wait before you retry. Sent with `429 rate_limited` (`1`), `503 settlement_lockout` (`60`) and `503 trading_paused` (`60`). schema: type: integer securitySchemes: bearer: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- `Authorization: Bearer `. Sandbox keys start with `mgw_test_` and live keys start with `mgw_live_`. Each key works only in its own environment, and a live key works only from the IP addresses or ranges registered for it. ````