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Mastercard Initiate API

The Initiate API from Mastercard — 2 operation(s) for initiate.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

Mastercard Initiate API is one of 249 APIs that Mastercard publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Initiate. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, code examples, a changelog, a support channel, and a getting-started guide.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 13 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://api.example.com.

2 operations 2 paths 13 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.example.com
Contact
Bill Pay Development Support
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Initiate 2
POST
/initiate-authentications
Authenticate a user using Liveness Assurance, this is a more performant, but less stringent form of authentication, which will enable the user to access, but not change certain details of their ident…
initializeAuthentication 1 param body → 200400403
POST
/initiate-premium-authentications
Authenticate a user using Genuine Presence Assurance, this is a less performant, but more stringent form of authentication, which will enable the user to manage all aspects of their identity.
initiateStrongerAuthentication 1 param body → 200400403

Schemas 13

The contract defines 13 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AuditEventsItem (12 properties), InitializeAuthentications (12 properties), Authentications (7 properties), DeviceInfo (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TpAuditMetadata
object
Object containing metadata related to the request.
2 properties 2 required
Locale
string
IETF BCP 47 code which identifies the language to be used in any dialogs being shown to the user during the flow. The default value is "en-US".
PDS
string
Encrypted Personal Device Storage (PDS) which hosts the users identity attributes. The PDS can be retrieved from the MIDS Core SDK, please refer to the SDK gui…
ErrorResponse
object
The error response model used by all the API endpoints.
1 property 1 required
AuditEventsItem
object
12 properties
SdkVersion
string
Mastercard SDK version integrated with TP App, it is a constant extracted from MIDS SDK Configurations (generated while bundling SDK artifacts). If the TP app…
UserConsent
string
Confirmation provided by the TP that the user has consented that the ID-Network can have access to their identity for the purposes of the API call. Should be A…
InitializeAuthentications
object
12 properties 7 required
InitPremiumAuthentications
7 required
ARID
string
A unique identifier for any activity being executed arising out of a Claim Share request. This value is passed as a parameter in the URL redirecting a User to…
Authentications
object
7 properties 3 required
DeviceInfo
object
Object containing the details of the device from which the enrollment is being conducted.
3 properties 3 required
CountryCode
string
The country code of the country where the transaction originates from.

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

mastercard-initiate-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
mastercard:mastercard-initiate-api
Base URL
https://api.example.com
Docs
https://developer.mastercard.com/product/account-services-catalogue/
Provider
Mastercard
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