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Bridge

Bridge provides a comprehensive suite of tools for connecting customer bank accounts. Use it to generate secure widget sessions for instant account verification, accept tokens from major providers like Plaid and Finicity, or verify accounts directly via our API. Bridge handles all sensitive banking credentials and ensures secure, compliant connections with support for 90% of US bank accounts.

Create a Widget session token
$ straddle bridge initialize
POST/v1/bridge/initialize
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bridgeTokenV1: object { data, meta, response_type }
data: object { bridge_token }
bridge_token: string

JWT Token to use in the bridge widget.

meta: object { api_request_id, api_request_timestamp }

Metadata about the API request, including an identifier and timestamp.

api_request_id: string

Unique identifier for this API request, useful for troubleshooting.

api_request_timestamp: string

Timestamp for this API request, useful for troubleshooting.

response_type: "object" or "array" or "error" or "none"

Indicates the structure of the returned content.

  • "object" means the data field contains a single JSON object.
  • "array" means the data field contains an array of objects.
  • "error" means the data field contains an error object with details of the issue.
  • "none" means no data is returned.
"object"
"array"
"error"
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Bridge provides a comprehensive suite of tools for connecting customer bank accounts. Use it to generate secure widget sessions for instant account verification, accept tokens from major providers like Plaid and Finicity, or verify accounts directly via our API. Bridge handles all sensitive banking credentials and ensures secure, compliant connections with support for 90% of US bank accounts.

Bridge a bank account
$ straddle bridge:link bank-account
POST/v1/bridge/bank_account
Bridge a Plaid token
$ straddle bridge:link plaid
POST/v1/bridge/plaid
Create Tan
$ straddle bridge:link create-tan
POST/v1/bridge/tan
Create a paykey from a Quiltt token
$ straddle bridge:link create-paykey
POST/v1/bridge/quiltt