# Bank\_accounts api with developer api

**URL:** <https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/bank-accounts-api-with-developer-api/5579>\
**Category:** Authentication\
**Created:** [26 February 2025 11:41 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/bank-accounts-api-with-developer-api/5579 "2025-02-26T11:41:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jay\_Gregory](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/user_avatar/api-discuss.freeagent.com/jay_gregory/32/1006_2.png) [@Jay\_Gregory](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/u/Jay_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [26 February 2025 11:41 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/bank-accounts-api-with-developer-api/5579/1 "2025-02-26T11:41:00Z")

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When trying to do bank accounts API calls I get a 403, the credentials I’m using are for a approved application in the dev API portal. Is there additional perms I need to apply to allow my approved application to make these calls?

There seems to be no options to apply the banking role to this registration or I cannot find it in documentation.

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**Author:** ![fa\_struan](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/user_avatar/api-discuss.freeagent.com/fa_struan/32/1058_2.png) [@fa\_struan](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/u/fa_struan)\
**Post date:** [25 April 2025 10:44 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/bank-accounts-api-with-developer-api/5579/2 "2025-04-25T10:44:24Z")

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Hi Jay,

I’m one of the Engineers at FreeAgent. I see you were having issues with accessing our Banking APIs.

To be able to access the Banking API endpoints the user that authorised the API connection needs to have Level 6 (Banking) or greater access when the API call is made. There is more information on [how to change access levels on our Support pages](https://support.freeagent.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115001223444-User-access-levels-in-FreeAgent).  
You can verify the current level of access via the API by [calling the “Get personal profile” endpoint](https://dev.freeagent.com/docs/users#get-personal-profile) and looking at the `permission_level` specified there.

There is no additional permissions required for either the user or API app to be able to access the Banking endpoints.

If you have any further issues please do let us know.

Thanks  
Struan