List customer categories

GEThttps://<your-url>/api/v2/customer-categories

MCP id customer-categories.indexAlso on this path: POST Create a customer category

Returns the customer-category taxonomy, sorted by name A to Z.

Token scope: api:read:customer_categories
Without it: 403 insufficient-token-scope.
Permission: customer_categories::read
Without it: 403 insufficient-permission.
Rate cost: 1 unit, read bucket. view=detail makes it 3. Adds: q +2.
Also: If-None-Match answers 304 when nothing changed. Cacheable: private, max-age=60. Unknown query parameters are refused, never ignored.

Both are checked, scope first. A token never does more than its user. How access is checked

Request

Example: Find the enterprise categories

curl -G \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/customer-categories' \
  --data-urlencode 'q=Enterprise' \
  --data-urlencode 'sort=name' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'

const response = await fetch('https://<your-url>/api/v2/customer-categories?q=Enterprise&sort=name', {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
  },
});

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::withToken('<token>')
    ->acceptJson()
    ->get('https://<your-url>/api/v2/customer-categories?q=Enterprise&sort=name');

import requests
response = requests.request(
    'GET',
    'https://<your-url>/api/v2/customer-categories?q=Enterprise&sort=name',
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>', 'Accept': 'application/json'},
)

Response

The shape of the response, with sample values.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Enterprise",
      "description": "Accounts over 500 seats.",
      "created_at": "2026-03-04T09:15:00Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-03-04T09:15:00Z",
      "customers_count": 1,
      "links": {
        "…": "2 fields of CustomerCategoryLinks"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "page": {
      "per_page": 1,
      "next_cursor": "…",
      "prev_cursor": "…",
      "total": 1,
      "current_page": 1,
      "last_page": 1
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/1",
    "next": "https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/1",
    "prev": "https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/1"
  }
}

Each row carries the number of customers in the category and a link to that filtered customer collection. Search with q= over the category name.

Query parameters

Unknown parameters are refused with 400, naming the parameter.

12 parameters in 5 groups

Views

viewstring

Which field set to render.

summarydefaultdetail

Pagination

per_pageinteger1 to 100

Rows per page. At most 25 when include names a to-many relation; a larger value is 400 invalid-query-parameter.

Default: 25

cursorstring

Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page's links.next. Never construct one by hand.

pageinteger1 to 1000

Opt in to page-number paging: 1-based, at most 1000. Omit it, the default, to page by opaque cursor, which is what links.next hands you. Cannot be combined with cursor. Published only on collections that count their rows on every request.

Filters

=: equals
[gte][lt]: at least, less than

filter[created_at]timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ)=[gte][lt]

Creation timestamp. Pair with sort=id for a stable full export.

filter[updated_at]timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ)=[gte][lt]

Last-write timestamp. Use for incremental sync.

Search

qstring

Free-text search over name. At most one substring match per request: q together with a contains filter is 400 invalid-query-parameter.

Sorting

sortstring

Up to three keys, comma-separated, each optionally prefixed with - for descending.

Default: name

Key	Sorts by
`name`	Category name, A→Z.
`id`	Id, ascending. An id never changes, so use this for a stable full export.
`updated_at`	Last-write timestamp; pair with the id tiebreaker for sync.

Prefix a key with - for descending.

Request headers

X-Request-Idstringpattern

A correlation id of your own. It is recorded in our logs next to the server's request id but never returned: the response header always carries the server's id. A value that does not match the pattern is discarded silently, never rejected.

If-None-Matchstring

The ETag a read is conditional on. A match is answered 304 with no body.

Response 200

Returns a page of CustomerCategoryList rows.

dataarray of CustomerCategoryList

The rows, each a CustomerCategoryList.

meta.pagePage

per_page, next_cursor, prev_cursor, total, current_page, last_page.

linksPageLinks

self, next, prev.

Each row is a CustomerCategoryList: 7 fields.

Headers

ETag: A weak validator (W/"…") of the rendered page.
RateLimit: The IETF httpapi-ratelimit-headers form of your remaining allowance on the tightest bucket this request touched.
RateLimit-Policy: The ceiling and window of that bucket, as <limit>;w=<seconds>.
X-Request-Id: The server-generated ULID correlating this response with our logs.

Every response also carries Cache-Control, Vary, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Plnnrly-Api-Version, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset. Headers and versioning