# Change your access over a managed account API Reference

Updates the `access_level` you keep over an account you provisioned.

- **Raising it:** only possible while the account is unclaimed. Once its holder has taken
  ownership you may keep or lower your access, but only they can raise it.
- **Billing:** the level never affects it — you pay for the account's subscription at any
  level.
- **`OPERATE`:** issuing invoices on the holder's behalf additionally requires a signed
  fiscal representation from them.
- **Entitlement:** requires `manage_accounts`.


## PATCH /v1/accounts/{account_id}/access-level

**Change your access over a managed account**

Updates the `access_level` you keep over an account you provisioned.

- **Raising it:** only possible while the account is unclaimed. Once its holder has taken
  ownership you may keep or lower your access, but only they can raise it.
- **Billing:** the level never affects it — you pay for the account's subscription at any
  level.
- **`OPERATE`:** issuing invoices on the holder's behalf additionally requires a signed
  fiscal representation from them.
- **Entitlement:** requires `manage_accounts`.

### Authentication

Accepts any of:

- `ApiKeyAuth` (HTTP bearer, token format `beel_sk_*`)

### Parameters

- **account_id** (required) in path `string`: Identifier (UUID) of an account you manage. An account you do not manage answers exactly like one that does not exist, so its existence is never disclosed.

### Request Body

Required.

**Content `application/json`:**

- **access_level** (required) `AccessLevel`: How much access an actor has to an account or a company. The same three values are used everywhere access is granted or reported — whether the actor is a member of the account or a provisioner managing it on someone's behalf. `NONE` — no access to the data. `VIEW` — read invoices, customers, products, series and fiscal data. `OPERATE` — everything in `VIEW`, plus creating and editing them. Issuing invoices for an account you manage additionally requires a signed fiscal representation from the account holder (see `/v1/accounts/{account_id}/companies/{company_id}/representation`). Access level never affects billing: whoever provisioned an account pays for its subscription regardless of the level they keep over it.

**Example `change_access_level_view`** — Downgrade to read-only access:

```json
{
  "access_level": "VIEW"
}
```

### Responses

#### 204: Access updated.

#### 400: Bad request

**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "Invalid request"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 401: Missing or invalid authentication. Like every other error, `message`/`detail` is
localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English when the
header is missing or asks for none of those.


**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Authentication is required to access this resource"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 403: Every cause listed under the plain `403`, plus `LIVE_CREDENTIAL_REQUIRED` when the call is made with a test API key (`beel_sk_test_…`), and `MANAGED_SCOPE_ELEVATION_REQUIRES_OWNER` when the request raises your access over an account its holder has already claimed: from then on only they can raise it.

**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "MANAGED_SCOPE_ELEVATION_REQUIRES_OWNER",
    "message": "Only the account holder can raise management access over their account once it has been claimed"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 429: Rate limit exceeded

**Headers:**

- `Retry-After` `integer`: Seconds until the rate limit resets
- `RateLimit-Limit` `integer`: Maximum requests allowed in the window
- `RateLimit-Remaining` `integer`: Remaining requests in the current window
- `RateLimit-Reset` `integer`: Seconds until the current window resets

**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "Too many requests. Please try again in 60 seconds."
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### 500: Internal server error

**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "INTERNAL_ERROR",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

#### default: Any status code the operation does not list above. Every operation declares it, so a
generated client always has a branch to fall into and never loses the cause of a failure
it did not anticipate.

This is where the transport-level answers land — `405`, `406`, `415` and `429` — together
with any status a future version of the API starts returning. All of them carry the same
error envelope as the codes listed explicitly, so `error.code` is what tells them apart:
switching on the status code alone is not enough. See «Transport-level errors» in the
API description for when each one is produced.

A `502` carrying `EXTERNAL_SERVICE_ERROR` also lands here: an outbound integration the
operation depends on failed or did not answer in time. It is a transient condition — retry
with the same `Idempotency-Key` where the operation accepts one.

One exception to the envelope: a failure of the network edge that never reaches the
application (`502`, `503`, `504`, `524`) is generated by Cloudflare and its body is not
BeeL's — it may not even be JSON. Treat those as "no answer", and retry.


**Content `application/json`:**

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

**Example:**

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE",
    "message": "Unsupported media type: text/plain. Supported: application/json"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

---

# Related Schema Definitions

## ChangeAccessLevelRequest

Updates the access you hold over an account you provisioned.

- **access_level** (required) `AccessLevel`: How much access an actor has to an account or a company. The same three values are used everywhere access is granted or reported — whether the actor is a member of the account or a provisioner managing it on someone's behalf. `NONE` — no access to the data. `VIEW` — read invoices, customers, products, series and fiscal data. `OPERATE` — everything in `VIEW`, plus creating and editing them. Issuing invoices for an account you manage additionally requires a signed fiscal representation from the account holder (see `/v1/accounts/{account_id}/companies/{company_id}/representation`). Access level never affects billing: whoever provisioned an account pays for its subscription regardless of the level they keep over it.

## AccessLevel

How much access an actor has to an account or a company. The same three values are used everywhere access is granted or reported — whether the actor is a member of the account or a provisioner managing it on someone's behalf.

`NONE` — no access to the data.
`VIEW` — read invoices, customers, products, series and fiscal data.
`OPERATE` — everything in `VIEW`, plus creating and editing them. Issuing invoices for an account you manage additionally requires a signed fiscal representation from the account holder (see `/v1/accounts/{account_id}/companies/{company_id}/representation`).

Access level never affects billing: whoever provisioned an account pays for its subscription regardless of the level they keep over it.

Type: `string` — one of: NONE, VIEW, OPERATE

## ErrorResponse

Error response shared by all BeeL. APIs.

The payload carries **two contracts at once** (additive, non-breaking):

- **Legacy** (`success`, `error.{code,message,details}`, `meta`) — kept
  intact for existing consumers.
- **RFC 9457** (`type`, `title`, `detail`, `instance`) — new fields
  for integrators following Problem Details for HTTP APIs. The
  `type` URI is the stable, shareable link to the error's
  documentation page (e.g. `https://docs.beel.es/errors/{code}`).

Future migration: the legacy fields will be deprecated via
`Deprecation`/`Sunset` headers after a sufficient adoption window,
and the response Content-Type will move to
`application/problem+json`.

- **success** (required) `boolean`: No description (example: false)
- **error** (required) `ErrorDetail`
- **meta** `ResponseMeta`
- **type** `string` (uri): Stable URI that identifies the problem type and where the integrator will find its documentation. (example: "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **title** `string`: Short summary of the problem type. Stable between occurrences of the same `type`. (example: "INVOICE_NO_LINES")
- **detail** `string`: Specific message for this occurrence, localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English. Matches the legacy `error.message`. (example: "The invoice must have at least one line")
- **instance** `string` (uri-reference): URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem — typically the path of the affected resource. (example: "/v1/invoices/abc-123")

## ErrorDetail

- **code** (required) `string`: No description (example: "VALIDATION_ERROR")
- **message** (required) `string`: No description (example: "The provided data is not valid")
- **details** `object`: No description (example: {"field":"specific error message"})

## ResponseMeta

- **timestamp** `string` (date-time): No description (example: "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z")
- **request_id** `string`: No description (example: "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736")


---

Full OpenAPI spec: https://docs.beel.es/api/openapi