---
title: "Create company"
method: POST
path: "/companies"
tags: ["Advanced controls"]
---

# Create company

`POST /companies`

Creates a Codat company

## Request body

- CreateCompany
  - `name` string, required — Name of company being connected.
  - `description` Description — unresolved $ref
  - `groups` Items[] — Reference to the groups that the company is assigned to. — unresolved $ref

## Response `200`

Success

- Company — unresolved $ref

## Other responses

- `400` — The request made is not valid.
- `401` — Your API request was not properly authorized.
- `402` — An account limit has been exceeded. The type of limit is described in the error property: - You have exceeded the 50-company limit that applies to a Free plan. Delete any companies you no longer need and retry the request. - The requested sync schedule is not allowed. You requested an hourly sync schedule but this functionality is not included in the Free plan. - Your Free account is older than 365 days and has expired. Contact support@codat.io.
- `403` — You are using an outdated API key or a key not associated with that resource.
- `429` — Too many requests were made in a given amount of time. Wait a short period and then try again.
- `500` — There is a problem with our server. Please try again later.
- `503` — The Codat API is temporarily offline for maintenance. Please try again later.

## Changes

- **2024-02-13** `9bd87def9914` — 7 info
  - added the optional property `validation` to the response with the `400` status
  - added the optional property `validation` to the response with the `401` status
  - added the optional property `validation` to the response with the `402` status
  - added the optional property `validation` to the response with the `403` status
  - …3 more
- **2023-12-21** `03e681fe8297` — 1 warning
  - added the new `Expense` enum value to the `dataConnections/items/sourceType` response property for the response status `200`
- **2023-12-21** `a5aefe1f126c` — 1 warning
  - added the new `BankFeed` enum value to the `dataConnections/items/sourceType` response property for the response status `200`
- **2023-12-20** `8b9709c65982` — 2 info
  - added the new optional request property `groups`
  - added the optional property `groups` to the response with the `200` status
- **2023-10-23** `83c1801e91f7` — 7 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `400`
  - added the non-success response with the status `401`
  - added the non-success response with the status `402`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
  - …3 more

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/codatio/apis/codat-sync-commerce/changes/companies/post.md)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/codatio/apis/codat-sync-commerce.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/codatio/apis/codat-sync-commerce/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-production.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/codatio/codat-sync-commerce/revisions/a96819c0110c/schema)