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# Use the CLI REPL to Create Accounts and Transfers

Once you've got some TigerBeetle replicas running, let's connect to the replicas and do some
accounting!

First let's create two accounts. (Don't worry about the details, you can read about them later.)

```console
./tigerbeetle repl --cluster=0 --addresses=3000
```

```
TigerBeetle Client
  Hit enter after a semicolon to run a command.

Examples:
  create_accounts id=1 code=10 ledger=700 flags=linked | history,
                  id=2 code=10 ledger=700;
  create_transfers id=1 debit_account_id=1 credit_account_id=2 amount=10 ledger=700 code=10;
  lookup_accounts id=1;
  lookup_accounts id=1, id=2;
```

```console
create_accounts id=1 code=10 ledger=700,
                id=2 code=10 ledger=700;
```

```console
info(message_bus): connected to replica 0
```

Now create a transfer of `10` (of some amount/currency) between the two accounts.

```console
create_transfers id=1 debit_account_id=1 credit_account_id=2 amount=10 ledger=700 code=10;
```

Now, the amount of `10` has been credited to account `2` and debited from account `1`. Let's query
TigerBeetle for these two accounts to verify!

```console
lookup_accounts id=1, id=2;
```

```json
{
  "id": "1",
  "user_data": "0",
  "ledger": "700",
  "code": "10",
  "flags": [],
  "debits_pending": "0",
  "debits_posted": "10",
  "credits_pending": "0",
  "credits_posted": "0"
}
{
  "id": "2",
  "user_data": "0",
  "ledger": "700",
  "code": "10",
  "flags": "",
  "debits_pending": "0",
  "debits_posted": "0",
  "credits_pending": "0",
  "credits_posted": "10"
}
```

And indeed you can see that account `1` has `debits_posted` as `10` and account `2` has
`credits_posted` as `10`. The `10` amount is fully accounted for!

You can take a look at the [`Accounts` reference](../reference/accounts.md) to understand all of the
fields on the accounts.

## Next: Designing for TigerBeetle

Now that you've created some accounts and transfers, you may want to dig into the [data
model](../design/data-modeling.md) to learn more about how to build with TigerBeetle.

You can also take a look at the [Operations](../reference/operations/index.md) to see what else you
can do with the REPL.