Preview the employee seat charge

Preview the prorated per-seat charge for activating or hiring employees, without charging. - Send count (1 to 1000) or employee_ids (UUID v7); already covered employees cost 0. - Amounts are 2-decimal euro strings; 403 billing_managed_by_provider when the provider manages billing.

Authorization

AuthorizationBearer <token>

Your API key as a bearer token: fact_live_… in production, fact_test_… in sandbox. See the authentication guide.

In: header

Path Parameters

account*string

Public identifier (UUID v7) of your account. Get it from GET /v1/me (data.account.id).

Formatuuid

Query Parameters

count?|

Number of employees that would be activated in bulk (at least 1, default 1).

Range1 <= value <= 1000

employee_ids[]?array<string>

Public identifiers (UUID v7) of the employees to preview; omit it to preview count employees.

contracted_seats?|

Contracted seats to preview (absolute value; mutually exclusive with count and employee_ids).

Range0 <= value <= 1000

Headers

Factuarea-Version?string

Pin the API version (YYYY-MM-DD, Stripe-style date versioning) for this request; omit to use the key's pinned version, or the latest if none. Unsupported version → 400 unsupported_api_version; malformed → 400 parameter_invalid_format. The effective version is echoed in the Factuarea-Version response header. See the Versioning guide.

Formatdate

Response Body

`application/json`

Request example

const apiKey = process.env.FACTUAREA_API_KEY;if (!apiKey) throw new Error("Set FACTUAREA_API_KEY");const response = await fetch("https://api.factuarea.com/v1/accounts/01931b3e-7c4a-7f2e-9a8b-3c5d6e7f8a01/employee-seats/preview", {  method: "GET",  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${apiKey}`, ...{"Accept":"application/json"} },});if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text());if (response.status !== 204) console.log(await response.json());

Response example

{
  "data": {
    "object": "employee_seat_charge_preview",
    "amount": "0.75",
    "tax_amount": "0.16",
    "total": "0.91",
    "tax_rate": 21,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "next_invoice_date": "2026-08-01T09:12:00+00:00",
    "requires_payment_method": false,
    "requires_active_plan": false,
    "included_in_trial": false,
    "already_covered": false,
    "is_first_seat": false,
    "recurring_quantity": 5,
    "recurring_base_cents": 750,
    "recurring_total_cents": 908,
    "seats_billable": true,
    "free_seats_used": 0,
    "seats_to_buy": 1,
    "included_in_seats": false,
    "seats": {
      "contracted": 5,
      "occupied": 5,
      "free": 0,
      "agreed_minimum": 0,
      "agreed_minimum_ends_at": null,
      "reducible_to": 0,
      "pending_reduction": null,
      "enforced": true
    },
    "cancels_pending_reduction": false,
    "pending_reduction": null,
    "deactivations_required": 0,
    "offer_package_loss": null
  }
}

Retired X-Active-Profile header sent

{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "parameter_unknown",
    "subcode": "retired_active_profile_header",
    "message": "La cabecera 'X-Active-Profile' fue retirada de la API v1: la empresa efectiva se indica en el segmento de empresa de la ruta.",
    "param": "X-Active-Profile",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#parameter_unknown",
    "request_id": "req_01J8Y3M2Q40000000000000001"
  }
}

Malformed Factuarea-Version header

{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "parameter_invalid_format",
    "message": "El header 'Factuarea-Version' debe tener formato YYYY-MM-DD.",
    "param": "Factuarea-Version",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#parameter_invalid_format",
    "request_id": "req_01J8Y3M2Q40000000000000002"
  }
}

Unsupported Factuarea-Version

{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "unsupported_api_version",
    "message": "La versión de API '2020-01-01' no está soportada.",
    "param": "Factuarea-Version",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#unsupported_api_version",
    "request_id": "req_01J8Y3M2Q40000000000000003"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "authentication_error",
    "code": "missing_api_key",
    "message": "Falta header Authorization o X-API-Key.",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#missing_api_key",
    "request_id": "req_87661e34b9b723faf35f780aad"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "authorization_error",
    "code": "insufficient_scope",
    "message": "Esta operación requiere el scope 'employees:read'. Tu API key solo tiene los scopes: ninguno.",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#insufficient_scope",
    "request_id": "req_8578a2978dffb90943ac1937be"
  }
}

Resource not found

{
  "error": {
    "type": "not_found_error",
    "code": "resource_not_found",
    "message": "El recurso solicitado no existe o pertenece a otra empresa.",
    "param": null,
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#resource_not_found",
    "request_id": "req_01HKQS5NEQ6X1R4N9B0C5DWTPG"
  }
}

Account not found or not the account of the API key

{
  "error": {
    "type": "not_found_error",
    "code": "account_not_found",
    "message": "La cuenta indicada no existe o no es la de tu credencial.",
    "param": "account",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#account_not_found",
    "request_id": "req_01J8Y3M2Q40000000000000006"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "invalid_param_value",
    "message": "El campo count no tiene un valor válido.",
    "param": "count",
    "errors": [
      {
        "param": "count",
        "code": "parameter_invalid_value",
        "message": "El campo count no tiene un valor válido."
      }
    ],
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#invalid_param_value",
    "request_id": "req_530d3c4249b0cecf16c800cf26"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "rate_limit_error",
    "code": "rate_limit_exceeded",
    "message": "Has excedido el límite de requests permitido. Reintenta más tarde.",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#rate_limit_exceeded",
    "request_id": "req_7c4d7fb2a9cf3db78f22cff118"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "api_error",
    "code": "internal_error",
    "message": "Algo se rompió en nuestro lado al procesar la petición. La condición no la provoca tu payload.",
    "doc_url": "https://docs.factuarea.com/guides/errors#internal_error",
    "request_id": "req_48725d5c62477ce2fbec0e8e46"
  }
}

Preview the employee seat charge

Authorization

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Response Body

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400application/json

401application/json

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404application/json

422application/json

429application/json

500application/json

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