What causes "You have no accounts!" in phacility/phabricator?

Create or join a Phortune account, then reload the charge list.

phacility/phabricator · error · Exception

You have no accounts!

Error message

You have no accounts!

What it means

Thrown by PhortuneChargeSearchEngine when it builds a charge query with no account context and the viewer is not a member of any Phortune account. Charge history is per-account data, so the engine refuses to run an unscoped query. The throw happens instead of showing an empty or global listing.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/phortune/query/PhortuneChargeSearchEngine.php:51

    return $saved;
  }

  public function buildQueryFromSavedQuery(PhabricatorSavedQuery $saved) {
    $query = id(new PhortuneChargeQuery());

    $viewer = $this->requireViewer();

    $account = $this->getAccount();
    if ($account) {
      $query->withAccountPHIDs(array($account->getPHID()));
    } else {
      $accounts = id(new PhortuneAccountQuery())
        ->withMemberPHIDs(array($viewer->getPHID()))
        ->execute();
      if ($accounts) {
        $query->withAccountPHIDs(mpull($accounts, 'getPHID'));
      } else {
        throw new Exception(pht('You have no accounts!'));
      }
    }

    return $query;
  }

  public function buildSearchForm(
    AphrontFormView $form,
    PhabricatorSavedQuery $saved_query) {}

  protected function getURI($path) {
    $account = $this->getAccount();
    if ($account) {
      return $account->getChargeListURI($path);
    } else {
      return '/phortune/charge/'.$path;
    }
  }

View on GitHub (pinned to 5720a38cfe)

Solutions

Create or join a Phortune account, then reload the charge list.
Set an explicit account context on the engine (or a merchant context where supported) before querying.
Pre-check PhortuneAccountQuery->withMemberPHIDs(viewer) in custom controllers and show an account-creation prompt when empty.
Confirm the user is not hitting the page with a different/anonymous session.

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

$accounts = id(new PhortuneAccountQuery())
  ->setViewer($viewer)
  ->withMemberPHIDs(array($viewer->getPHID()))
  ->execute();
if (!$accounts) {
  return new Aphront404Response(); // or prompt account creation
}
// safe to build the charge query now

Prevention

Pre-check account membership before rendering charge history UI.
Keep at least one billing account per user who needs payment visibility.
Return a helpful prompt instead of letting the engine throw.

When it happens

Trigger: Loading the Phortune charge list (e.g. /phortune/charge/) or invoking PhortuneChargeSearchEngine's query building when getAccount() returns null and the PhortuneAccountQuery for the viewer's memberships returns no results.

Common situations: New users browsing Phortune before any account exists; users removed from their last billing account; cron jobs or panels rendering charge queries as a system viewer with no memberships.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of phacility/phabricator@5720a38cfe (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a0e1f9c11dc79dd1. Report an issue: GitHub.