> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.joinluminous.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get a Core inventory cost

> Retrieve a single Core inventory cost record (CIC) with its provenance (how the cost
originated) and the transaction lines it is allocated across.

**Availability:** Returns **404** for tenants that do not have Luminous Core enabled, or when
the cost does not exist.




## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/build.yaml get /core/inventory-costs/{costId}
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Luminous API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: API documentation for Luminous
servers:
  - url: https://{companyName}.api.joinluminous.com/external/api/v1
    variables:
      companyName:
        default: companyName
        description: Your company-specific subdomain
security: []
tags:
  - name: Products
    description: Get and manage products
  - name: Pricing
    description: Manage price schedules, levels, and customizations
  - name: BOMs
    description: Manage Bills of Materials (BOMs)
  - name: Labels
    description: Label rendering via Labelary ZPL service
  - name: Companies
    description: Manage business accounts and their associated data
  - name: Contacts
    description: Manage contact information for individuals
  - name: Suppliers
    description: Manage suppliers (factories) — vendors used on purchase orders
  - name: Supplier SKUs
    description: Manage per-supplier SKU and unit-cost overrides for products
  - name: Locations
    description: Manage warehouses and locations
  - name: Inventory
    description: Get and adjust product stock levels
  - name: Lots
    description: Create, update, and delete product lots (batches)
  - name: Transfer Orders
    description: Manage transfer orders
  - name: Fulfillment Orders
    description: Manage fulfillment orders and picklists
  - name: Fulfillment Priority Lists
    description: Configure fulfillment routing priority lists
  - name: Purchase Orders
    description: Get and modify purchase orders
  - name: Supplier Portal
    description: >-
      Read a supplier's response to a purchase order and control the one-click
      portal link
  - name: Receiving Reports
    description: Manage receiving reports
  - name: Payment Obligations
    description: Manage payment obligations for purchase orders
  - name: Sales Orders
    description: Manage sales orders and sales order shipments
  - name: Purgatory
    description: >-
      Inspect and resolve non-posted sales orders in the purgatory staging
      workflow
  - name: PickFlow Shipping
    description: >-
      Provider-agnostic shipping rates, services, packages, and label purchase
      for PickFlow
  - name: Cycle Counts
    description: >-
      Create, drive, and post PickFlow cycle counts — batches, per-warehouse
      sessions, and CSV import/export
  - name: Print Stations
    description: List paired print stations and enqueue print jobs to them
  - name: Invoices
    description: Get and manage invoices
  - name: Work Orders
    description: >-
      Manage work orders — production lifecycle, steps, materials, links,
      shipments, and comments
  - name: Production Batches
    description: Group and manage work orders as production batches
  - name: Bills
    description: >-
      Accounts payable bill management, payments, attachments, allocations, and
      variance
  - name: Prepayments
    description: Manage vendor prepayments and applications
  - name: Vendor Credits
    description: Manage vendor credits and applications
  - name: Vendor Returns
    description: Manage vendor returns and credit generation
  - name: Customer Returns
    description: Manage customer returns (sales returns), receiving, and restock behavior
  - name: Stock Snapshot
    description: Point-in-time stock snapshots with export support
  - name: Consumption
    description: Consumption reports and exports
  - name: Inventory Aging
    description: Cost-layer-based inventory aging reports
  - name: Bills Reports
    description: Accounts payable bills aging reports
  - name: Forecast
    description: Materialized forecast data
  - name: Reports
    description: Close the books, inventory discrepancy, transaction COGS, and EDI reports
  - name: Tags
    description: Add/remove tags across various resources
  - name: Custom Fields
    description: Get and set custom fields across various resources
  - name: Currency
    description: Currency configuration, exchange rates, and conversion
  - name: Integration Mappings
    description: Manage integration mappings for external systems
  - name: Integration Field Mappings
    description: Manage field-level mappings between Luminous and external systems
paths:
  /core/inventory-costs/{costId}:
    get:
      tags:
        - Core Inventory Ledger
      summary: Get a Core inventory cost
      description: >
        Retrieve a single Core inventory cost record (CIC) with its provenance
        (how the cost

        originated) and the transaction lines it is allocated across.


        **Availability:** Returns **404** for tenants that do not have Luminous
        Core enabled, or when

        the cost does not exist.
      operationId: getCoreInventoryCost
      parameters:
        - in: path
          name: costId
          required: true
          schema:
            type: integer
          description: Core inventory cost id.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Core inventory cost detail.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  cost:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      id:
                        type: integer
                      date:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      cost_id:
                        type: integer
                        nullable: true
                      core_cost_name:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      allocation_type:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      item_id:
                        type: integer
                        nullable: true
                      linked_type:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      linked_id:
                        type: integer
                        nullable: true
                      cost_basis:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      cost_qty:
                        type: number
                      amount:
                        type: number
                      total_amount:
                        type: number
                  provenance:
                    type: object
                    description: >
                      Explains where the cost came from. `kind` is one of
                      `trueup_variance`, `import`,

                      `baseline`, or an origin classification; `explanation` is
                      a human-readable summary.

                      Additional fields vary by `kind` (e.g. `receipt_txn_id`,
                      `estimate_unit_cost`,

                      `variance_total` for true-up variances).
                    properties:
                      kind:
                        type: string
                      explanation:
                        type: string
                      _links:
                        type: object
                        properties:
                          receipt_transaction:
                            type: string
                            format: uri
                  lines:
                    type: array
                    description: Transactions this cost is allocated across.
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        inventory_transaction_id:
                          type: integer
                        allocated_amount:
                          type: number
                        product_sku:
                          type: string
                          nullable: true
                        product_name:
                          type: string
                          nullable: true
                        product_rfq_id:
                          type: integer
                          nullable: true
                        txn_qty:
                          type: number
                        _links:
                          type: object
                          properties:
                            self:
                              type: string
                              format: uri
                            detail:
                              type: string
                              format: uri
                  _links:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      self:
                        type: string
                        format: uri
                      detail:
                        type: string
                        format: uri
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
        '404':
          description: Not found, or Luminous Core is not enabled for this tenant.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        Authenticate using a bearer token. To create a token, navigate to
        /settings/api-tokens and click Create API Token.

````