# Approve an ACH Relationship

## Overview

This POST endpoint enables you to approve a new ACH relationship that are based on micro deposits (as opposed to Plaid-based ACH relationships). When you attempt to create such relationship, you will see two values in your banking account statement (e.g., `0.34` and `0.21`). These two values will have to provided in this endpoint to confirm the creation of the ACH relationship.

{% hint style="warning" %}
This endpoint cannot be used for approving Plaid-based ACH relationships, as they are automatically approved.
{% endhint %}

There are six required parameters that must be provided in the request:

1. **Et-App-Key** (header). This is the unique key of your app that identifies your app when communicating with our service. Contact your administrator to get this key.
2. **Authorization** (header). This is the authorization token from the very first [token request](/rest-api/trading-api/authentication.md).
3. **API version** (path). Unless necessary, leave it at "1.0".
4. **accountId** (path). This is the [internal identifier](/rest-api/trading-api/user-accounts/list-users-accounts.md) of the trading account in Autoshares Trader to which the ACH relationship is bound.
5. **id** (path). This is the ID of the to-be-approved ACH relationship in Autoshares Trader.
6. **model** (body). This is a JSON dictionary containing two values from the banking statement.

### Request Body

The body of this request represents the two values from the banking statement. They can be provided in any order.

| Parameter | Description                                               |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Amount1   | This is one of the two values from the banking statement. |
| Amount2   | This is the other value from the banking statement.       |

For example:

```javascript
{
  "Amount1": 0.32,
  "Amount2": 0.19
}
```

Here's the final template for this API request:

```
POST apiURL/v1.0/accounts/{accountId}/ach-relationships/{id}/approve
```

## Response

In response to this API request, you will receive the 200 status code and no error message.

## Common Mistakes

Here are some of the common mistakes that developers make when attempting to send a request to approve an ACH relationship.

### Failing to Specify the Et-App-Key Parameter

If you specify the wrong Et-App-Key parameter or fail to include it in the header altogether, you'll get the following error:

```javascript
{
    "error": "Application key is not defined or does not exist"
}
```


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