# Expense categories

## CREATE

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://api.pesatime.com/v1/expense_categories`

Create a new expense category

#### Request Body

| Name | Type   | Description                        |
| ---- | ------ | ---------------------------------- |
| name | string | The name of the category to create |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Category successfully created." %}

```javascript
{
  "status": 1,
  "message": "Saved",
  "data": {
    "_id": "5dce4b8a4d44af36f693cd2b"
  }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="302 Error" %}

```
{
  "status": 0,
  "message": "Error message here"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## UPDATE

<mark style="color:orange;">`PUT`</mark> `https://api.pesatime.com/v1/expense_categories/:categoryId`

Update an expense category

#### Request Body

| Name | Type   | Description                  |
| ---- | ------ | ---------------------------- |
| name | string | The new name of the category |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Success" %}

```
{
  "status": 1,
  "message": "Category updated successfully"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="302 " %}

```
{
  "status": 0,
  "message": "Error description here"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## RETRIEVE

<mark style="color:blue;">`GET`</mark> `https://api.pesatime.com/v1/expense_categories/:categoryId`

Retrieves the contents of an expense category

#### Path Parameters

| Name       | Type   | Description                                    |
| ---------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------- |
| categoryId | string | The ID of the category to retrieve details for |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Success" %}

```
{
  "status": 1,
  "data": {
    "active": true,
    "_id": "5dcc0fc3a9e5e668a62c72e1",
    "organization": "5db5a64a6cb3e2060a7b864c",
    "user": "5cded7f553ea376e8bba6bfd",
    "name": "Salary",
    "dateCreated": "2019-11-13T14:14:27.095Z",
    "__v": 0
  }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="302 Category not found" %}

```
{
  "status": 0,
  "message": "Category not found"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## DELETE

<mark style="color:red;">`DELETE`</mark> `https://api.pesatime.com/v1/expense_categories/:categoryId`

Delete a category

#### Path Parameters

| Name       | Type   | Description                      |
| ---------- | ------ | -------------------------------- |
| categoryId | string | The ID of the category to delete |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Success" %}

```
{
  "status": 1,
  "message": "Category deleted successfully"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="302 Error" %}

```
{
  "status": 0,
  "message": "Error description here"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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