# View an account's balance

 With the `/account/balance` endpoint, you can retrieve the balance of your account in real-time

## Account Balance

<mark style="color:blue;">`GET`</mark> `https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance`

#### Headers

| Name          | Type   | Description                                                             |
| ------------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Authorization | string | Your access token is required as a bearer token in the request's header |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 This response is gotten when a successful request is made and the balance of an account is retrieved" %}
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="JSON" %}

```bash
{
  "balance":550.75,
  "currencyCode":"USD",
  "currencyName":"US Dollar",
  "updatedAt":"2018-12-04 08:45:51"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401 This response is gotten when an incorrect or expired access token is used to make a request" %}
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="JSON" %}

```bash
{
  "timeStamp":"2021-05-11 21:14:00",
  "message":"Full authentication is required to access this resource",
  "path":"/accounts/balance",
  "errorCode":"INVALID_TOKEN",
  "infoLink":null,
  "details":[
    
  ]
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="404 This response is gotten when a request is made to an incorrect URL path" %}
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="JSON" %}

```bash
{
  "timestamp":"2021-05-11T21:14:29.629+0000",
  "status":404,
  "error":"Not Found",
  "message":"No message available",
  "path":"/accounts/balanc"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Request samples

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl --location --request GET 'https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance' \
--header 'Accept: application/com.reloadly.topups-v1+json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="C#" %}

```csharp
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace WebAPIClient {
  class Program {

    static async Task Main(string[] args) {
      await ApiCall();
    }

    private static async Task ApiCall() {

      var message = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance");

      message.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE");
      message.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("Accept", "application/com.reloadly.topups-v1+json");
      message.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("Content-Type", "application/json");

      using
      var httpClient = new HttpClient();
      var response = await httpClient.SendAsync(message);
      var responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
      var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject < dynamic > (responseBody);

      Console.WriteLine(result);
    }

  }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Golang" %}

```go
package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance"
  method := "GET"

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/com.reloadly.topups-v1+json")
  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE")
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance")
  .method("GET", null)
  .addHeader("Accept", "application/com.reloadly.topups-v1+json")
  .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE")
  .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Node JS" %}

```javascript
var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Accept", "application/com.reloadly.topups-v1+json");
myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE");
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: myHeaders,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Accept: application/com.reloadly.topups-v1+json',
    'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE',
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests
import json

url = "https://topups.reloadly.com/accounts/balance"

payload={}
headers = {
  'Accept': 'application/com.reloadly.topups-v1+json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Response parameters

| Parameter      | Type   | Description                                                     |
| -------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `balance`      | number | This indicates the current account balance                      |
| `currencyCode` | string | This indicates the account's currency code                      |
| `currencyName` | string | This indicates the account's currency name                      |
| `updatedAt`    | string | This indicates the last time a top-up was made from the account |