---
title: "Get account by its address"
method: GET
path: "/v2/{ledger}/accounts/{address}"
tags: ["ledger.v2"]
---

# Get account by its address

`GET /v2/{ledger}/accounts/{address}`

## Path parameters

- `ledger` string, required
- `address` string, required

## Query parameters

- `expand` string
- `pit` string, date-time

## Response `200`

OK

- V2AccountResponse
  - `data` V2Account, required — An account in the ledger, identified by its address and carrying its metadata and volumes
    - `address` string, required — The account address, a colon-separated segmented path such as users:001
    - `metadata` object, required — Arbitrary key/value pairs attached to the account. Metadata is bi-temporal, so a point-in-time query returns the metadata as it stood at that time
    - `insertionDate` string, date-time — When the account was first written to the ledger, on the request-time axis
    - `updatedAt` string, date-time — When the account was last modified, for example by a metadata change
    - `firstUsage` string, date-time — Transaction time of the earliest transaction touching this account. Inserting a backdated transaction can move it earlier
    - `volumes` V2Volumes — Volumes per asset for a single account
    - `effectiveVolumes` V2Volumes — Volumes per asset for a single account

## Other responses

- `default` — Error

## Changes

- **2025-12-12** `2945092328b9` — 2 warning
  - added the new `SCHEMA_ALREADY_EXISTS` enum value to the `errorCode` response property for the response status `default`
  - added the new `SCHEMA_NOT_SPECIFIED` enum value to the `errorCode` response property for the response status `default`
- **2025-07-16** `07091e08e779` — 2 info
  - added the optional property `data/insertionDate` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the optional property `data/updatedAt` to the response with the `200` status
- **2025-06-25** `c51f6899d101` — 1 info
  - added the optional property `data/firstUsage` to the response with the `200` status
- **2024-12-09** `7ee573f0087f` — 1 warning, 1 info
  - added the new `OUTDATED_SCHEMA` enum value to the `errorCode` response property for the response status `default`
  - removed the `BUCKET_OUTDATED` enum value from the `errorCode` response property for the response status `default`
- **2024-12-05** `d93e4ae21e38` — 1 warning
  - added the new `BUCKET_OUTDATED` enum value to the `errorCode` response property for the response status `default`

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/formancehq/apis/ledger-api/changes/v2/:ledger/accounts/:address/get.md)

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