# Balance

Balances represent the amount of money in your account. You can use balances to track your income and expenses, and to make payments to your customers or vendors.

## Retrieve balance

 - [GET /balance](https://chaching.redocly.app/developer-guide/api/balance/balancecontroller_getbalance.md): Retrieves the current account balance, based on the authentication that was used to make the request.