---
title: "Retrieve a member"
method: GET
path: "/v0.1/merchants/{merchant_code}/members/{member_id}"
tags: ["Members"]
---

# Retrieve a member

`GET /v0.1/merchants/{merchant_code}/members/{member_id}`

Retrieve a merchant member.

## Path parameters

- `merchant_code` string, required
- `member_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Returns the Member object for a valid identifier.

- Member — A member is user within specific resource identified by resource id, resource type, and associated roles.
  - `id` string, required — ID of the member.
  - `roles` string[], required — User's roles.
  - `permissions` string[], required — User's permissions.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required — The timestamp of when the member was created.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required — The timestamp of when the member was last updated.
  - `user` MembershipUser — Information about the user associated with the membership.
    - `id` string, required — Identifier for the End-User (also called Subject).
    - `type` 'user' | 'managed_user' | 'service_account' | 'system_account', required — Type of the user account.
    - `email` string, required — End-User's preferred e-mail address. Its value MUST conform to the RFC 5322 [RFC5322] addr-spec syntax. The RP MUST NOT rely upon this value being unique, for unique identification use ID instead.
    - `mfa_on_login_enabled` boolean, required — True if the user has enabled MFA on login.
    - `virtual_user` boolean, required — True if the user is a virtual user (operator).
    - `service_account_user` boolean, required — True if the user is a service account.
    - `disabled_at` string, date-time — Time when the user has been disabled. Applies only to virtual users (`virtual_user: true`).
    - `nickname` string — User's nickname. Used for display purposes only.
    - `picture` string, uri — URL of the End-User's profile picture. This URL refers to an image file (for example, a PNG, JPEG, or GIF image file), rather than to a Web page containing an image.
    - `classic` MembershipUserClassic — Classic identifiers of the user.
      - `user_id` integer, required
  - `invite` Invite — Pending invitation for membership.
    - `email` string, email, required — Email address of the invited user.
    - `expires_at` string, date-time, required
  - `status` 'accepted' | 'pending' | 'expired' | 'disabled' | 'unknown', required — The status of the membership.
  - `metadata` Metadata — Set of user-defined key-value pairs attached to the object. Partial updates are not supported. When updating, always submit whole metadata. Maximum of 64 parameters are allowed in the object.
  - `attributes` Attributes — Object attributes that are modifiable only by SumUp applications.

## Other responses

- `404` — Merchant or member not found.

## Changes

- **2026-07-10** `c75ca16e1e44` — 2 info
  - the security scope `members.read` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `oauth2`
  - the security scope `user.subaccounts` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `oauth2`
- **2026-06-18** `89d32e0b22e2` — 1 breaking, 3 info
  - the `user/classic/user_id` response's property format changed from `int32` to no format for status `200`
  - response property `user/service_account_user` deprecated
  - response property `user/virtual_user` deprecated
  - added the required property `user/type` to the response with the `200` status
- **2026-03-11** `cd79d83b07e0` — 1 info
  - media type `application/json` was changed to a more specific media type `application/problem+json` for the response status `404`
- **2025-12-11** `b8fb7c9463b8` — 1 info
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
- **2025-10-29** `4dc4b073a6a9` — 1 info
  - response property `permissions` deprecated

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/sumup/apis/sumup-rest-api/changes/v0.1/merchants/:merchant_code/members/:member_id/get.md)

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