---
title: "Verify the claim OTP and reveal the claim-eligible account"
method: POST
path: "/v1/account_claims"
tags: ["Account Claims"]
---

# Verify the claim OTP and reveal the claim-eligible account

`POST /v1/account_claims`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://identity-api.paymongo.com`
- URL: `https://identity-api.paymongo.com/v1/account_claims`
- Auth: none required

Verifies the OTP issued by POST /v1/auth/methods. On success returns the claim-eligible child organization's details plus a single-use claim token for POST /v1/account_claims/complete. Every challenge-verification failure returns an identical 422, so this step cannot be used to tell whether a claim is in progress for an email. Once the OTP is accepted the claim preconditions are re-checked and may answer 409 — the email gained a user, or the organization already has an owner — which discloses nothing, since reaching it requires the correct code.

## Request body

- UserVerifyAccountClaimRequestEnvelopeDTO
  - `data` object
    - `attributes` UserVerifyAccountClaimRequestDTO
      - `code` string, required
      - `email` string, required

## Response `201`

Created

- object: Standard response containing data and its metadata if any
  - `data` object
    - `attributes` UserAccountClaimAttributesDTO
      - `account_type` string
      - `email` string
      - `expires_at` integer
      - `first_name` string
      - `last_name` string
      - `organization_id` string
      - `token` string
    - `id` string
    - `type` string
  - `has_more` boolean

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `409`: Conflict
- `422`: Unprocessable Entity
- `500`: Internal Server Error
- `502`: Bad Gateway

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