List expense categories for the authenticated employee

Returns the flat list of expense categories applicable to the current employee. Only active categories are returned, filtered by the employee's country / legal-entity visibility rules. Leaf nodes have is_selectable: true; parent nodes are excluded unless include_parents=true.

Authentication

This endpoint requires the following token type:

Employee-scoped access token (OAuth2Assertion) — obtained through the urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer grant. See Authentication for partners.

Scopes

Category	Read only Scope	Write only Scope (read access implicit)
Manage expenses (employment_payments)	View expenses (expense:read)	Manage expenses (expense:write)

get/v1/employee/expense-categories

Request

Base URL: https://gateway.remote.com
URL: https://gateway.remote.com/v1/employee/expense-categories
Auth: OAuth 2 (client credentials, token URL /auth/oauth2/token, scopes: https://gateway.remote.com/employment.manage, expense:read, expense:write, employment_payments, all:write, all:read)

Query parameters

include_parentsboolean

Include parent (non-selectable) categories in addition to selectable leaves

expense_idstring

Expense ID (slug) whose category should be included in the result, even if it is not selectable by default

Response

Success

Example response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "code": "travel",
      "description": "Travel-related expenses",
      "instructions": null,
      "is_selectable": false,
      "parent": null,
      "prompt": null,
      "scope": "global",
      "slug": "travel-abc123",
      "status": "active",
      "title": "Travel"
    },
    {
      "code": "travel.flights",
      "description": "Flight expenses for business travel",
      "instructions": "Please include flight confirmation number",
      "is_selectable": true,
      "parent": {
        "code": "travel",
        "slug": "travel-abc123",
        "title": "Travel"
      },
      "prompt": "What was the purpose of this flight?",
      "scope": "global",
      "slug": "travel-flights-abc123",
      "status": "active",
      "title": "Flights"
    }
  ]
}

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