# Import bank

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/books/post-books-bank-import

> Takes a bank statement as RAW BYTES — the file exactly as downloaded, OFX, QFX or CSV, not wrapped in JSON — parses every row, books it against the caller org's own ledger, and answers the tally: how many rows were seen, how many vouchers posted, how many inflows reconciled, how many raised a question, how many were own-account transfers, and how many were skipped.

`POST /v1/books/bank/import`

> [Books →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/books) · [All API references →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi) · [Get started →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/guides)

|               |                                             |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/books/bank/import` |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                      |
| **Operation** | `post_books_bank_import`                    |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`      |

Takes a bank statement as RAW BYTES — the file exactly as downloaded, OFX, QFX or CSV, not wrapped in JSON — parses every row, books it against the caller org's own ledger, and answers the tally: how many rows were seen, how many vouchers posted, how many inflows reconciled, how many raised a question, how many were own-account transfers, and how many were skipped.

RE-IMPORTING THE SAME STATEMENT DOES NOT DOUBLE-BOOK. Every row goes through the same posting choke point every other source uses, keyed idempotently, so an overlapping statement — the usual case, since exports overlap at the month boundary — lands its new rows and counts the rest as skipped. Skipped is the number to read on a second import.

It is READ-ONLY against the bank: this ingests, it never sends money. Scoped to the caller's own org from the validated principal, and refused without one; `sandbox=true` writes the org's sandbox ledger instead of its real books. An empty body is a 400, and a file the parser cannot read is a 400 carrying the parser's reason rather than a partial import. On a deployment whose import parser is not built, this answers 501 rather than mishandling the file.

## Request

1 field, body `application/octet-stream`.

| Field    | In   | Type            | Required | Description |
| -------- | ---- | --------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `(body)` | body | string (binary) | yes      |             |

## Response

| Status | Body      | Meaning |
| ------ | --------- | ------- |
| `2XX`  | BankTally | Success |

`2XX` body — 6 fields.

| Field        | In   | Type    | Always | Description |
| ------------ | ---- | ------- | ------ | ----------- |
| `ingested`   | body | integer | —      |             |
| `posted`     | body | integer | —      |             |
| `questions`  | body | integer | —      |             |
| `reconciled` | body | integer | —      |             |
| `skipped`    | body | integer | —      |             |
| `transfers`  | body | integer | —      |             |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo books bank import
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, BooksApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new BooksApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postBooksBankImport();
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import BooksApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = BooksApi(client).post_books_bank_import()
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.BooksAPI.PostBooksBankImport(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, books_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = books_api::post_books_bank_import(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.BooksApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new BooksApi(client).postBooksBankImport();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/books/bank/import \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY"
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **books** through the `books` tool, which names its 20 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_book_accounts"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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