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If you’ve chosen Flinks Connect as your front-end solution, the next step to connecting customer accounts is choosing a back-end solution. The back-end solution allows you to receive the end user’s financial data. Flinks offers two back-end configuration options:
  • Setting up API requests to receive customer data
  • Setting up Webhooks to receive customer data
To learn more about the capabilities and requirements for each option, refer to the table below and to the following sections:
SOLUTIONRECEIVES END USER DATADELIVERED TO YOU AUTOMATICALLYERRORS ARE HANDLED AUTOMATICALLY
API requests
Webhooks

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Setting up API requests to receive data

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Use this solution if:

You want to make an API call to Flinks when you are ready to receive customer data.
Set up your API to communicate directly with Flinks APIs to receive end-user data. If you choose this back-end integration option, you’ll need to set up your servers to make a call to our API each time you want to receive new or refreshed customer data. For more information about which endpoints to call, see Setting up Investments API requests.

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Setting up Webhooks to receive customer data

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Use this solution if:

You want to receive customer data automatically, without needing to make API calls.
Receive end-user data automatically on a set schedule by setting up Webhooks. A Webhook is a way to set up custom callbacks from our application to yours, so that you receive the data automatically on a schedule that you set. For more information about Webhooks, see our API Reference.

Types of data you can receive