Your Plaid Integration

Plaid will return an INVALID_ACCOUNT_ID error when a call includes an account_id in the account_ids options object that is either invalid or does not exist on the Plaid Item. This article will firs...

This article provides a high-level overview of OAuth, a form of user authentication used by the majority of Plaid’s European integrations. What is OAuth? Plaid’s PSD2-compliant European integration...

A unique Item is created when an end-user links their bank account through Plaid. Based on how you’ve set up your integration, it might be possible for an end-user to create multiple Items for the ...

Overview This article outlines the various user authentication methods into their financial institution that Plaid supports. It’s meant to be a primer and not a replacement for Plaid's Developer Do...

This article is a breakdown of Plaid error codes and our recommendations for how to best handle them. Requires Client Action Invalid request errors: Client sends a malformed request that is missin...

Within Link, you can enable an account selection pane, which allows an end-user to select one or more of the account(s) at their institution. When enabled, this pane will display once the end-user ...

Every Plaid API request returns an accounts key with information about the account(s) affiliated with a user’s credentials: { "accounts": [{ "account_id": "vzeNDwK7KQIm4yEog683uElbp9GRLEFXGK9...

How to track users across items Do items or access tokens expire? How do I remove an item? What are the differences among a  public_token,  access_token,  and an  item? How are tokens formatted? Ho...

There are a few steps that must be taken to successfully switch from Plaid’s Sandbox or Development environment to Plaid’s Production environment. If you haven't gotten Production access yet, you m...

Missing transactions Transaction data quality Missing accounts Misclassified accounts Transactions You may occasionally notice that a user appears to be missing transactions or that some aspect of ...

Storage An access_token is your key to retrieving data on behalf of an item, a set of credentials at a financial institution. access_tokens are obtained by exchanging a public_token, which you rece...