The Identifiers product returns the account number, routing number, and related identifiers for a customer’s financial account. Use it to ensure that subsequent transactions (such as ACH transfers) end up in the right place.
API Reference
- Search financial accounts:
GET /bank-linking/accounts
- Get a specific financial account:
GET /bank-linking/accounts/{accountId}
Overview
Each checking or savings account is assigned a unique account number and routing number.
- Account number — Identifies your customer’s unique bank account. Typically a 10–12 digit string that tells the bank which account to withdraw funds from or deposit funds in.
- Routing number — A nine-digit number that financial institutions use to identify other financial institutions. It indicates which bank holds your customer’s financial account.
Use cases
There are many use cases that require a customer’s account and routing number, such as:
- Your app allows users to cash out a credit balance to a bank account.
- Your app allows users to pay you directly from their checking or savings account.
- Your app allows an end-to-end ACH transfer.
Account authentication lets you request a customer’s account number and bank identification number (such as routing number, for US accounts) in a seamless and validated way without having to look up and type their account numbers.
Account authentication generally supports checking and savings accounts only.
Account authentication data
When calling the financial account endpoint, you can access the accountNumber and routingNumber for that account. See Retrieving Connection Data for an example.
Tokenized Account and Routing NumbersService providers may provide “tokenized” account and routing numbers when working with institutions that support an OAuth flow. This may be due to the provider’s or institution’s policies. A tokenized account number is not the actual number but a representation of it. These tokenized numbers work identically to normal account numbers.The digits returned in the mask field continue to reflect the actual account number, not the tokenized account number. For this reason, when displaying account numbers in your UI, always use the mask rather than truncating the account number. If a user revokes permissions to your app, the tokenized numbers will continue to work for ACH deposits but not withdrawals.
Sample response
