get-recurring-expenses.md

description	Use this endpoint to retrieve a list of recurring expenses to expect for a specified period.

Get recurring expenses

Every month, a different set of recurring expenses is expected. This is because recurring expenses can be once a year, twice a year, every 4 months, etc.

If a recurring expense is listed as “twice a month”, then that recurring expense will be returned twice, each with a different billing date based on when the system believes that recurring expense transaction is to be expected. If the recurring expense is listed as “once a week”, then that recurring expense will be returned in this list as many times as there are weeks for the specified month.

In the same vein, if a recurring expense that began last month is set to “Every 3 months”, then that recurring expense will not show up in the results for this month.

{% api-method method="get" host="https://dev.lunchmoney.app" path="/v1/recurring_expenses" %} {% api-method-summary %} Get recurring expenses {% endapi-method-summary %}

{% api-method-description %}

{% endapi-method-description %}

{% api-method-spec %} {% api-method-request %} {% api-method-query-parameters %} {% api-method-parameter name="start_date" type="string" required=false %} Accepts a string in ISO-8601 short format. Whatever your start date, the system will automatically return recurring expenses expected for that month. For instance, if you input 2020-01-25, the system will return recurring expenses which are to be expected between 2020-01-01 to 2020-01-31. Defaults to the first day of the current month. {% endapi-method-parameter %}

{% api-method-parameter name="debit_as_negative" type="boolean" required=false %} Pass in true if you’d like expenses to be returned as negative amounts and credits as positive amounts. Defaults to false. {% endapi-method-parameter %} {% endapi-method-query-parameters %} {% endapi-method-request %}

{% api-method-response %} {% api-method-response-example httpCode=200 %} {% api-method-response-example-description %} Returns a list of Recurring Expense objects {% endapi-method-response-example-description %}

{
  "recurring_expenses": [
    {
      "id": 264,
      "start_date": "2020-01-01",
      "end_date": null,
      "cadence": "twice a month",
      "payee": "Test 5",
      "amount": "-122.0000",
      "currency": "cad",
      "created_at": "2020-01-30T07:58:43.944Z",
      "description": null,
      "billing_date": "2020-01-01",
      "type": "cleared",
      "original_name": null,
      "source": "manual",
      "plaid_account_id": null,
      "asset_id": null,
      "transaction_id": null
    },
    {
      "id": 262,
      "start_date": "2020-01-01",
      "end_date": null,
      "cadence": "monthly",
      "payee": "Test 2",
      "amount": "-32.4500",
      "currency": "usd",
      "created_at": "2020-01-30T07:58:43.921Z",
      "description": "Test description 2",
      "billing_date": "2020-01-03",
      "type": "cleared",
      "original_name": null,
      "source": "manual",
      "plaid_account_id": null,
      "asset_id": null,
      "transaction_id": null
    },
    {
      "id": 264,
      "start_date": "2020-01-01",
      "end_date": null,
      "cadence": "twice a month",
      "payee": "Test 5",
      "amount": "-122.0000",
      "currency": "cad",
      "created_at": "2020-01-30T07:58:43.944Z",
      "description": null,
      "billing_date": "2020-01-15",
      "type": "cleared",
      "original_name": null,
      "source": "manual",
      "plaid_account_id": null,
      "asset_id": null,
      "transaction_id": null
    }
  ]
}

{% endapi-method-response-example %}

{% api-method-response-example httpCode=400 %} {% api-method-response-example-description %}

{% endapi-method-response-example-description %}

{ "error": "Invalid start_date. Must be in format YYYY-MM-DD" }

{% endapi-method-response-example %} {% endapi-method-response %} {% endapi-method-spec %} {% endapi-method %}