# GET /api/v2/customer-categories/{customer_category}

Read a customer category

- MCP id: customer-categories.show
- Scope: api:read:customer_categories
- Permission: customer_categories::read
- Rate cost: 1 unit, read bucket.
- Cache-Control: private, max-age=60

Returns one category in the detail view.

Categories are hard-deleted, so a deleted category is gone and answers `404`.

## Parameters
- customer_category (integer, path): The CustomerCategory's numeric id.
- view (string, optional): Which field set to render.
- X-Request-Id (header, optional): 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-Match (header, optional): The ETag a read is conditional on. A match is answered 304 with no body.

## Response 200
- id (integer, required): Unique identifier.
- name (string ≤ 255, required): Category name as shown in the UI, e.g. Enterprise.
- description (string or null, required, multiline): Free-text note on what belongs in this category.
- created_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Creation timestamp.
- updated_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Last-write timestamp; use for incremental sync.
- customers_count (integer ≥ 0, required): Number of customers in this category.
- links (CustomerCategoryLinks, required)
  - self (url, required): The canonical URI of this record.
  - customers (url, required): Customers in this category.

## Errors
- 403 forbidden-by-policy | insufficient-permission | insufficient-token-scope: Forbidden.
- 304 : Not modified.
- 400 idempotency-key-required | invalid-cursor | invalid-query-parameter | malformed-request | unsupported-parameter: Bad request.
- 401 token-expired | unauthenticated: Unauthenticated.
- 404 endpoint-not-found | resource-not-found: Not found.
- 406 not-acceptable: Not acceptable.
- 429 rate-limit-exceeded: Too many requests.
- 500 internal-error: Server error.
- 503 tenant-unavailable: Service unavailable.

## Example
```bash
curl -X GET \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/customer-categories/1' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'
```