Alpaca Broker API — Journals

Journals move value between two accounts within your own Alpaca omnibus — typically between a pre-funded firm/sweep account and a user account. They are the engine behind "instant funding," cashback, and share rewards. They never touch the outside banking world (that's alpaca-broker-funding-transfers).

Read alpaca-broker-integration first for base URLs and auth (client-credentials Bearer token; legacy Basic still works).

Reference

• Guide: https://docs.alpaca.markets/docs/funding-via-journals
• API ref: https://docs.alpaca.markets/reference/createjournal
• Live schema: alpaca-docs MCP → get-endpoint title "Broker API" path /v1/journals

1. Endpoints