An entity is a real world object. In SmartVault, many of these entities will be related to accounting.

Entities exist only on structured plans and its hierarchy can be browsed using the path /nodes/entity for entities themselves and /nodes/entity-definition for the entities definition. This path allows the service to provide display and behavioral information about entities, primarily for client use.

You can find a correspondence between the entity name and its name in the API nomenclature in the "SmartVault entities" table below.