> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kirafin.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Conventions Six habits that hold across every endpoint. Each one is something to do, not something to know. ## Compare values without case Statuses and codes come back in the case the field uses, and that is not the same everywhere. Compare case-insensitively rather than matching exact strings, and you never have to remember which is which. ## Read the shape of the response you got A listing wraps its rows differently depending on the endpoint — some in a `pagination` object, some with the counters at the top level, some in a bare array. Read what came back rather than assuming the shape you saw on another endpoint. [Pagination](/reference/pagination) has all four. ## Do not assume the request and the response mirror each other What you send and what comes back are described separately for every endpoint, and they are not the same list. A field you send may not be returned, and a field you receive may not be sendable. The object page for each resource lists exactly what a read returns — start there rather than from the body you sent. ## Parse amounts as decimals Money arrives as a string: `"1000.00"`, not `1000.00`. Parse it with a decimal type. A float will round it eventually, and the first time you notice is a payment that is a cent short. The same goes for the fees on an account, which are decimal strings too. ## Treat absent, null and empty as three things A field can be missing from the response, present and `null`, or present and empty. They mean different things and your parser has to survive all three — a field that is `null` today may be absent tomorrow on a record where it does not apply. ## Read the status code before the body The status code is the one thing every response agrees on. Branch on it first, then on `code` where there is one, and treat everything else as text to display. This matters most on a `429`: it means you are being rate limited whatever the message says. See [Rate limits](/using-the-api/rate-limits).