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# Expire Account Lockout

POST https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout
Content-Type: application/json

### Expire an active account-level lockout.

**Available to:** Organization administrators

**Environments:** Demo

**[Rate Limit](/overview/core-concepts/rate-limits):** No endpoint-specific limit

This endpoint allows you to immediately expire an active trading lockout for a single account in your organization. Traders use manual lockouts to pause their trading activity for a specified amount of time. Since traders can't cancel their own lockouts, only an organization administrator can unlock the account before the lockout expires.

When the lockout is expired:
- Trading is re-enabled immediately on the specified account
- Other locked accounts belonging to the same user are not affected

Use the optional `notes` field to record a reason for the unlock (e.g., "Trader requested early unlock").

If the account doesn't have an active lockout, the request still succeeds without making any changes.

To expire all active lockouts for a user at once, use [`expireAllAccountLockouts`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-all-account-lockouts) instead.

**Common Failure Scenarios**

- The caller isn't an organization administrator
- The account doesn't belong to the caller's organization
- The account doesn't exist
- The user doesn't exist

All responses return `HTTP 200`. Errors are indicated by `ok: false` and an `errorText` field in the response body.

**Error Messages**

| `errorText` | Trigger |
|-------------|---------|
| `"Unauthorized: only org admins may expire a trading lockout."` | The caller isn't an organization administrator, or the account belongs to a different organization |
| `"Account not found."` | The `accountId` doesn't match an existing account |
| `"User not found."` | The `userId` doesn't match an existing user |

**Related Endpoints**

- Use [`accountLockoutStatus`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/account-lockout-status) to check whether accounts are currently locked
- Use [`createAccountLockout`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/create-account-lockout) to lock a specific account (traders, own account only)
- Use [`expireAllAccountLockouts`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-all-account-lockouts) to unlock all accounts for a user (organization administrators only)

***Note***: The [`expireAccountLockout`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-account-lockout) and [`expireAllAccountLockouts`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-all-account-lockouts) endpoints replace [`expireUserLockout`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-user-lockout).

Reference: https://partner.ninjatrader.com/connect/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-account-lockout

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects an ExpireAccountLockout.

- `accountId` (long, required)
- `userId` (long, required)
- `notes` (string, optional)

## Response

### 200

AccountLockoutResponse

- `errorText` (string, optional) — Non-empty if the request failed
- `ok` (boolean, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "accountId": 1,
  "userId": 1
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "errorText": "string",
  "ok": true
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout"

payload = {
    "accountId": 1,
    "userId": 1
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"accountId":1,"userId":1}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"userId\": 1\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"userId\": 1\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"userId\": 1\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout', [
  'body' => '{
  "accountId": 1,
  "userId": 1
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"userId\": 1\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "accountId": 1,
  "userId": 1
] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/expireaccountlockout")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```