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Use this solution if you have a financial service product and your customers may bank with another financial institution. Flinks can connect your customers’ bank accounts, which allows them to safely access their financial data to use your services.

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Types of accounts you can connect

Use Flinks to connect to the following types of banking accounts:
  • Operations Account: accounts that are used for everyday banking (such as a chequing or savings account).
  • Credit Account: a credit account with a financial institution (such as a credit card or loan).
  • Banking Products: accounts or services that are typically frozen (such as investments, and other financial products).
  • Other: all other types of financial accounts.
The following Flinks products can be used to connect customer accounts:
FLINKS PRODUCTDESCRIPTION
Flinks ConnectUse this solution if you want to build the solution directly into your site or app, and have the in-house development resources to assist.
Flinks ExpressUse this solution if you want a fast integration that does not require in-house development resources.
For more information about the capabilities and requirements for each product, refer to the table below:
FLINKS PRODUCTCUSTOMIZABLE FOR YOUR BRANDEMBEDDED IN YOUR SITECODING WORK REQUIRED
Flinks Connect
Flinks Express

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Receive your end-user’s data

If you’ve chosen Flinks Connect as your front-end solution, the next step to connecting your customer accounts is choosing a back-end solution. The back-end solution allows you to receive the end-user’s financial data. Flinks provides 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 of each option, refer to the table below and to the following sections:
SOLUTIONRECIEVES END-USER DATADELIVERED TO YOU AUTOMATICALLYERRORS ARE HANDLED AUTOMATICALLY
API Requests
Webhooks

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Setting up API Requests to retrieve customer data

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 the Flinks APIs to receive end-user data. If you choose this back-end integration option, you’ll need to set up servers to make a call to our API each time you want to collect 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 retrieve customer data

Use this solution if:
You want to receive customer data automatically, without needing to make any 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.

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Financial Institutions we can connect to

Flinks can connect to a number of Financial Institutions in both Canada and the United States.

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Major Financial Institutions: USA

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Major Financial Institutions: Canada

Flinks can return a wide variety of data from the accounts we are connected to, including the following:

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Personal information

  • Name
  • Address
  • Civic Address
  • City
  • Province or State
  • ZIP or Postal Code
  • PO Box
  • Country
  • E-mail
  • Telephone Number

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Account information

  • horizontal Title
  • Balance
  • Transit or Routing Number
  • Institution Number
  • Account Number
  • Category and Type

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Transaction history

  • Transaction Date
  • Transaction Description
  • Credit or Debit Amount
  • Current Balance