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Belvo API Docs (1.223.0)

Introduction

Reach new audiences and convert more users by easily and safely connecting to their financial data, understanding their behavior and enabling instant payments with open finance. Through our API, you can access:

Available Information and Payment Methods

Belvo is an open banking API for Latin America that allows companies to access banking and fiscal information in a secure as well as agile way.

Through our API, you can access:

  • Banking Information in Brazil
  • Employment Information in Brazil
  • Employment Information in Mexico
  • Fiscal Information in Mexico
  • Fiscal Information in Chile

You can also use our API to make payments in:

  • Brazil
  • Mexico

Data Dictionaries

If you woud like the response documentation in Excel or CSV form, please download them from our public GitHub Reposiitory: Belvo Open Finance Data Dictionaries.

Our EXCEL and CSV files are additionally localized into Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil).

Environments

We currently offer two environments: sandbox and production.

Sandbox

Available for:

  • 🟢 Aggregation and Enrichment
  • ⚪️ Payment Initiation

Use our Sandbox environment to build your integration. We offer dummy data that mimics that of real-world use cases, which means you can test out all the endpoints, use the widget, and implement webhooks - just as you would with real-world data!

All you need to get started with the Sandbox environment is to get your API keys. We really recommend that you start creating your integration in this environment.

Production

Available for:

  • 🟢 Aggregation and Enrichment
  • 🟢 Payment Initiation

After you have tested your integration in the Sandbox environment and are ready to go live, you'll need to request access to our Production environment. After you request access, our Sales Team will get in contact with you to schedule a meeting just to ensure your needs are met, and then you'll just need to go through a certification process with one of our engineers to make sure that your integration is running optimally. To prepare for the certification meeting, just follow our Integration checklist.

Once your integration is certified, all you'll need to do is:

  • Request Production API keys (and change your Sandbox API keys in the code to these new ones).
  • Change the base URL that you make requests to from sandbox.belvo.com to api.belvo.com.
  • If you're using webhooks, make sure to set a Production URL for your webhooks.

Response codes

We use the following HTTP status code in the response depending on the success or failure:

Status CodeDescription
200✅ Success - The content is available in the response body.
201✅ Success - The content was created successfully on Belvo.
204✅ Success - No content to return.
400❌ Bad Request Error - Request returned an error, detail in the content.
401❌ Unauthorized - The Belvo credentials provided are not valid.
404❌ Not Found - The resource you try to access cannot be found.
405❌ Method Not Allowed - The HTTP method you are using is not accepted for this resource.
408❌ Request Timeout - The request timed out and was terminated by the server.
428❌ MFA Token Required - MFA token was required by the institution to connect.
500❌ Internal Server Error - The detail of the error is available in the response body.

Error handling

Belvo API errors are returned in JSON format. For example, an error might look like this:

[
    {
      "request_id": "a6e1c493d7a29d91aed4338e6fcf077d",
      "message": "This field is required.",
      "code": "required",
      "field": "link"
    }
]

Typically, an error response will have the following parameters:

  • request_id: a unique ID for the request, you should share it with the Belvo support team for investigations.
  • message: human-readable description of the error.
  • code: a unique code for the error. Check the table below to see how to handle each error code.
  • field (optional): The specific field in the request body that has an issue.

Request identifier

When you need help with a specific error, include the request identifier (request_id) in your message to the Belvo support team. This will speed up investigations and get you back up and running in no time at all.

Error codes and troubleshooting

For a full list of errors and how to troubleshoot them, please see our dedicated Error Handling article.

Retry policy

50x errors

Implement an automated exponential backoff of up to five retries. We recommend using a base interval of three seconds with a factor of two. For example, the first retry should be after three seconds, the second retry after six seconds (2 * 3), the third retry after 12 seconds (2 * 6), the fourth retry after 24 seconds (2 * 12), and the fifth retry after 48 seconds (2 * 24).

40x errors

You should not retry making requests if you receive a 40x response, as this is a client error.

The only exception is the “Too Many Sessions” error, as it means that your end-user is accessing the account from another browser at the same time. In this case, please implement the same retry policy as with 50x errors.

Deprecated fields

In our schema, you may see that a field has been marked as deprecated. This means that this field is no longer maintained by the Belvo team. You may still receive data for this field depending on the institution, however, you should not rely on this field.

OpenAPI: required and nullable fields

In our API specification, you'll see that some response parameters will have a required annotation. According to the OpenAPI specification, when a response parameter is marked as required, this means that the response key must be returned. However, the value of that response parameter can be null.

📘 Info

In short, any response parameter marked as required will be returned by our API, but the value can be set to null.

Download OpenAPI description
BelvoOpenApiSpec.json
BelvoOpenApiSpec.yaml
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Sandbox
https://sandbox.belvo.com/

Institutions

An institution is an entity that Belvo can access information from. It can be a:

  • bank institution, such as Nubank Brazil.
  • fiscal institution, such as the Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT) in Mexico.
  • employment institutions, such as Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) in Mexico or Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social (INSS) in Brazil.
SchemasOperations

Widget Access Token

Operations

Consents

A consent is a permission given by the end user to access their financial data in the Open Finance Network in Brazil.

SchemasOperations

Owners

An owner represents the person who has access to a Link and is the owner of all the accounts inside the Link.

You can use this endpoint in order to get useful information about your client, such as:

  • their full name
  • key contact information
  • information about the ID document they used when opening the account
SchemasOperations

Accounts

An account is the representation of a bank account inside a financial institution. A user can have one or more accounts in an institution.

For example, one user (or link) can have a checking account, several credit cards, and a loan account.

Querying for a user's account information is useful as you can get information regarding:

  • what types of accounts the user has.
  • the balance for each account (savings, checking, credit card, loan, and so on).
  • detailed information regarding their credit card spending.
  • the current situation of any loans they may have.
SchemasOperations

Balances

A balance is the amount of money available in a given bank account (checking or savings) at a given time.

SchemasOperations

Exchanges

An exchange is a currency exchange operation in the Brazilian Open Finance Network. The resource contains details of foreign exchange operations, including exchange rates, amounts in local and foreign currencies, and settlement information. Each exchange operation can have associated history events that record any modifications to the original contract.

SchemasOperations

Transactions

A transaction contains the detailed information of each movement inside an account. For example, a purchase at a store or a restaurant.

SchemasOperations

Bills

A bill refers to the credit card bill a user receives for a given account.

SchemasOperations

Investments Brazil

SchemasOperations

Investment Transactions Brazil

SchemasOperations

Employments Brazil

Our employments resource for Brazil lets you get a comprehensive view of your user's current employment history and salary information.

For each user, we return the:

  • work history (including occupations and employer data)
  • historical and current salary information (per employer)

At the moment, the employments resource is available for:

  • 🇧🇷 Brazil (INSS)
SchemasOperations

Employment Records Mexico

Our employment records resource for Mexico lets you get a comprehensive view of your user’s current social security contributions and employment history.

With Belvo's employment records resource for Mexico, you can access information about your user's current social security contributions and employment history. For the each user, we return the:

  • personal data
  • work history
  • historical and current daily base salary
  • and more!

At the moment, the employment records resource is available for:

  • 🇲🇽 Mexico (IMSS)
  • 🇲🇽 Mexico (ISSSTE)
SchemasOperations

Current Employments Mexico

The Current Employments resource provides real-time access to the current employment status of individuals in Mexico. This resource offers detailed information about whether an individual is currently employed or unemployed, along with their active employment records.

SchemasOperations

Invoices

SchemasOperations

Tax compliance status

SchemasOperations

Tax returns

SchemasOperations

Tax retentions

SchemasOperations

Tax status

SchemasOperations

Financial Statements

SchemasOperations

Invoices Chile

SchemasOperations

Tax Status Chile

SchemasOperations

Debt Reports Chile

SchemasOperations

Incomes

Use the Incomes endpoint to gather insights on an account's income sources for the past 365 days. The endpoint is particularly useful when you want to verify a person's income.

📘 Info

The incomes resource is only available for Checking and Savings accounts associated with banking links.

SchemasOperations

Recurring Expenses

Belvo's Recurring Expenses API allows you to identify a user's regular payments for subscription services, such as Netflix or gym memberships, as well as utility payments, such as electricity or phone bills. We return information for up to 365 days.

📘 Info

The recurring expenses resource is only available for Checking, Savings and Credit Card accounts associated with banking links.

SchemasOperations

Risk Insights

SchemasOperations

Employment Metrics

SchemasOperations

Payment Institutions (Brazil)

A payment institution is an entity that Belvo can access information from. You can see a complete list of institutions available for payments by making a List request to this endpoint.

Operations

Customers (Brazil)

A customer is the payer that's going to push funds into your bank account. You need to create a customer in order to receive inflow payments to your organization's bank account.

Resource Versioning

This endpoint supports resource-level versioning. By including the header X-Belvo-API-Resource-Version: Payments-BR.V2, you can access the latest (V2) request and response formats. If the header is not provided, the default (V1) format will be used. See the API documentation for details on the differences between versions.

Operations

Bank Accounts (Brazil)

To receive inflow payments to your organization's bank account, you must register the bank accounts (individual and business) using Belvo's Payments API.

  • Individual bank accounts must be created for each payer (your customer).
  • Business bank accounts need to be created for the beneficiary of the payment (your organization).
Resource Versioning

This endpoint supports resource-level versioning. By including the header X-Belvo-API-Resource-Version: Payments-BR.V2, you can access the latest (V2) request and response formats. If the header is not provided, the default (V1) format will be used. See the API documentation for details on the differences between versions.

Operations

Payment Authorizations (Brazil)

A Payment Authorization is the consent that your user gives you to charge (debit money from) their accounts. You need to perform one Payment Authorization per ‘contract’ (for example, if your company does both electricity and water but they are billed separately, then you will create two separate Payment Authorizations).

Once the user confirms the authorization, you will need to listen for a a PAYMENT_AUTHORIZATION webhook with the status set to AUTHORIZED. Once you receive this webhook, the authorization process is complete, and you will be able to charge your user.

What is a charge?

A charge represents the individual payment (debit) that your customer will make.

Version Header

The Payment Authorization resource requires that you send through the X-Belvo-API-Resource-Version header set to Payments-BR.V2.

Operations

Charges (Brazil)

You can use the Charges resource to get details over a single charge or to list all charges associated with a payment intent.

Operations

Payment Intents (Brazil)

A payment intent is a single point of access to create payments using any payment method offered by Belvo.

A payment intent captures all payment information (such as the amount to be charged, the description of the payment, the provider, and so on) and guides your customers through the payment flow.

Operations

Biometric Pix Widget Access Token (Brazil)

Use the Biometric Pix Widget Token requests to create a access token for Biometric Payments.

Operations

Enrollments (Brazil)

Operations

Payment Transactions (Brazil)

Each time you receive an inflow payment from your customer, a transaction is created in the Belvo database.

You can use the Payment Transactions resource in order to get useful information about a transaction as well as the specific charge associated with it.

Operations
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