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Stripe Financial Connections API

Financial Connections lets your users securely share their financial data by linking their financial accounts to your business. Use Financial Connections to access user-permissioned account data such as tokenized account and routing numbers, balances, ownerships details, and transactions.

Stripe Financial Connections API is one of 159 APIs that Stripe publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Connections and Financial. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 11 operations across 11 paths, and defines 18 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2023-10-16.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.stripe.com/.

11 operations 11 paths 18 schemas 6 GET5 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2023-10-16
Server
https://api.stripe.com/
Authentication
HTTP Basic, HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Stripe Financial Connections API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (auth-scheme) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — Basic HTTP authentication. Allowed headers-- Authorization: Basic | Authorization: Basic
  • bearerAuth — Bearer HTTP authentication. Allowed headers-- Authorization: Bearer

Paths & Operations 11

Across 11 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 6 GET, 5 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Financial Connections 11
GET
/v1/financial_connections/accounts
Returns a list of Financial Connections Account objects.
GetFinancialConnectionsAccounts 6 params body → 200default
GET
/v1/financial_connections/accounts/{account}
Retrieves the details of an Financial Connections Account .
GetFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccount 2 params body → 200default
POST
/v1/financial_connections/accounts/{account}/disconnect
Disables your access to a Financial Connections Account . You will no longer be able to access data associated with the account (e.g. balances, transactions).
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountDisconnect 1 param body → 200default
GET
/v1/financial_connections/accounts/{account}/owners
Lists all owners for a given Account
GetFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountOwners 6 params body → 200default
POST
/v1/financial_connections/accounts/{account}/refresh
Refreshes the data associated with a Financial Connections Account .
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountRefresh 1 param body → 200default
POST
/v1/financial_connections/accounts/{account}/subscribe
Subscribes to periodic refreshes of data associated with a Financial Connections Account .
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountSubscribe 1 param body → 200default
POST
/v1/financial_connections/accounts/{account}/unsubscribe
Unsubscribes from periodic refreshes of data associated with a Financial Connections Account .
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountUnsubscribe 1 param body → 200default
POST
/v1/financial_connections/sessions
To launch the Financial Connections authorization flow, create a Session . The session’s clientsecret can be used to launch the flow using Stripe.js.
PostFinancialConnectionsSessions body → 200default
GET
/v1/financial_connections/sessions/{session}
Retrieves the details of a Financial Connections Session
GetFinancialConnectionsSessionsSession 2 params body → 200default
GET
/v1/financial_connections/transactions
Returns a list of Financial Connections Transaction objects.
GetFinancialConnectionsTransactions 7 params body → 200default
GET
/v1/financial_connections/transactions/{transaction}
Retrieves the details of a Financial Connections Transaction
GetFinancialConnectionsTransactionsTransaction 2 params body → 200default

Schemas 18

The contract defines 18 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are financial_connections.account (19 properties), financial_connections.transaction (12 properties), financial_connections.session (10 properties), PostFinancialConnectionsSessionsRequest (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

BankConnectionsResourceOwnerList
object
4 properties 4 required
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountUnsubscribeRequest
object
2 properties 1 required
PostFinancialConnectionsSessionsRequest
object
6 properties 2 required
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountDisconnectRequest
object
1 property
BankConnectionsResourceTransactionList
object
4 properties 4 required
BankConnectionsResourceLinkedAccountList
object
4 properties 4 required
GetFinancialConnectionsTransactionsTransactionRequest
object
error
object
An error response from the Stripe API
1 property 1 required
financial_connections.account
object
A Financial Connections Account represents an account that exists outside of Stripe, to which you have been granted some degree of access.
19 properties 9 required
financial_connections.session
object
A Financial Connections Session is the secure way to programmatically launch the client-side Stripe.js modal that lets your users link their accounts.
10 properties 6 required
GetFinancialConnectionsSessionsSessionRequest
object
financial_connections.transaction
object
A Transaction represents a real transaction that affects a Financial Connections Account balance.
12 properties 12 required
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountSubscribeRequest
object
2 properties 1 required
PostFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountRefreshRequest
object
2 properties 1 required
GetFinancialConnectionsAccountsRequest
object
GetFinancialConnectionsTransactionsRequest
object
GetFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountRequest
object
GetFinancialConnectionsAccountsAccountOwnersRequest
object

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

stripe-financial-connections-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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