# Account is not authorized to trade error, using zapier on paper trading account

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/account-is-not-authorized-to-trade-error-using-zapier-on-paper-trading-account/8188>\
**Category:** App-Integration\
**Created:** [January 30, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/account-is-not-authorized-to-trade-error-using-zapier-on-paper-trading-account/8188 "2022-01-30T14:16:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![ims](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/ims/32/3649_2.png) [@ims](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/ims)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/account-is-not-authorized-to-trade-error-using-zapier-on-paper-trading-account/8188/1 "2022-01-30T14:16:58Z")

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I just opened a paper trading account, and have signed into Alpaca on my Zapier account. I"m trying to test an API based trade through Zapier to buy tsla stock but getting an error on the Zapier side

“HTTP Status 403: account is not authorized to trade”

Does anyone know what is causing this?

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