---
title: "Retrieve a cash balance"
method: GET
path: "/v1/customers/{customer}/cash_balance"
---

# Retrieve a cash balance

`GET /v1/customers/{customer}/cash_balance`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.stripe.com`
- URL: `https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers/{customer}/cash_balance`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - HTTP bearer

Retrieves a customer’s cash balance.

## Path parameters

- `customer` string, required

## Query parameters

- `expand` string[]

## Response `200`

Successful response.

- CashBalance: A customer's `Cash balance` represents real funds. Customers can add funds to their cash balance by sending a bank transfer. These funds can be used for payment and can eventually be paid out to your bank account.
  - `available` object, nullable: A hash of all cash balances available to this customer. You cannot delete a customer with any cash balances, even if the balance is 0. Amounts are represented in the [smallest currency unit](https://docs.stripe.com/currencies#zero-decimal).
  - `customer` string, required: The ID of the customer whose cash balance this object represents.
  - `customer_account` string, nullable: The ID of an Account representing a customer whose cash balance this object represents.
  - `livemode` boolean, required: If the object exists in live mode, the value is `true`. If the object exists in test mode, the value is `false`.
  - `object` 'cash_balance', required: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.
  - `settings` CustomerBalanceCustomerBalanceSettings, required
    - `reconciliation_mode` 'automatic' | 'manual', required: The configuration for how funds that land in the customer cash balance are reconciled.
    - `using_merchant_default` boolean, required: A flag to indicate if reconciliation mode returned is the user's default or is specific to this customer cash balance

## Other responses

- `default`: Error response.

## Changes

> 19 revisions in range; 7 not diffed, 2 could not be searched.

- **2026-07-01** `e24a26de4188`: 3 breaking
  - removed the required property `error/payment_intent/latest_charge/anyOf[subschema #2: Charge]/application_fee/anyOf[subschema #2: PlatformFee]/balance_transaction/anyOf[subschema #2: BalanceTransaction]/source/anyOf[subschema #6: Dispute]/payment_method_details/card/network` from the response with the `default` status
  - removed the required property `error/payment_intent/latest_charge/anyOf[subschema #2: Charge]/balance_transaction/anyOf[subschema #2: BalanceTransaction]/source/anyOf[subschema #6: Dispute]/payment_method_details/card/network` from the response with the `default` status
  - removed the required property `error/payment_intent/latest_charge/anyOf[subschema #2: Charge]/failure_balance_transaction/anyOf[subschema #2: BalanceTransaction]/source/anyOf[subschema #6: Dispute]/payment_method_details/card/network` from the response with the `default` status
  - …this revision’s changelog is incomplete

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/stainless-api/apis/stripe-api/changes/v1/customers/:customer/cash_balance/get.md)

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