# Clear Books — Accounting API: overview

> Canonical URL: https://developers.apideck.com/apis/accounting/clearbooks-uk/overview

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- Status: live
- Authentication: apiKey

- **environment notes:**   - **description:** Testing and production share the same API and credentials. Test with a free trial account rather than live books.
  - **environment:** Single
- **apideck credentials note:** Each consumer supplies their own API key.
- **webhooks:** No webhooks — change detection is polling-based.
- **account type required:** An active Clear Books account.
- **costs:** No API fees published.
- **supported resource categories:**   - **name:** Core Financial
  - **resources:** ledger-accounts
currencies
  - **name:** Accounts Receivable
  - **resources:** invoices
credit-notes
customers
  - **resources:** bills
suppliers
  - **name:** Accounts Payable
- **partnership url:** https://www.clearbooks.co.uk/support/api/
- **responsibility matrix:**   - **consumer:** ✓ (for their own account)
  - **area:** Request API access from Clear Books
  - **customer:** Guidance
  - **customer:** ✓
  - **apideck:** Docs provided
  - **area:** Enable the connector in Apideck
  - **area:** Obtain the API key (in Clear Books)
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **apideck:** Secure Vault form
  - **area:** Provide the API key
  - **apideck:** Maintains the connector
  - **customer:** ✓
  - **area:** Build against the Unified API
  - **consumer:** ✓ Can revoke at any time
  - **customer:** ✓ Via the Apideck Dashboard
  - **apideck:** Logs and alerts
  - **area:** Monitor connections
- **authentication note:** The consumer's Clear Books SOAP API key; not OAuth.
- **sandbox available:** false
- **important to know:** Clear Books has discontinued the SOAP API this connector uses — no new applications will be approved for it. Existing API keys continue to work, but new integrations cannot obtain SOAP access; Clear Books now grants API access for its REST API instead.
- **partnership required:** false
- **rate limits:** No rate limits published; expect throttling on sustained load.
- **partnership note:** No partner program; request access from Clear Books support.
- **difficulty:** moderate
- **difficulty reason:** API access is granted by Clear Books on request; no self-service credentials.
- **consumer access level:** Permission to create an API key in Clear Books.
- **sandbox note:** A free Clear Books trial account serves for testing.
- **apideck credentials available:** false

## Supported resources

[Accounting data model](/guides/accounting-data-model.md)

- **name:** Suppliers
- **id:** suppliers
- **downstream id:** entities-suppliers
- **downstream name:** Entities Suppliers
- **status:** live
- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream id:** entities-customers
- **id:** customers
- **status:** live
- **name:** Customers
- **downstream name:** Entities Customers
- **custom field support:** false
- **status:** live
- **id:** invoices
- **name:** Invoices
- **downstream name:** Invoices Sales
- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream id:** invoices-sales
- **status:** live
- **id:** credit-notes
- **name:** Credit Notes
- **downstream id:** invoices-sales-credit-notes
- **downstream name:** Invoices Sales Credit Notes
- **custom field support:** false
- **status:** live
- **downstream name:** Invoices Purchase
- **custom field support:** false
- **name:** Bills
- **downstream id:** invoices-purchase
- **id:** bills
- **id:** ledger-accounts
- **downstream id:** list-account-codes
- **status:** live
- **custom field support:** false
- **name:** Ledger Accounts
- **downstream name:** List Account Codes

An omitted operation list does not establish operation support. Verify the selected operation in the coverage matrix.

[API reference](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/accounting/reference.md) · [Coverage matrix](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/accounting/coverage)