1️⃣ Implement the widget

While you're integrating the widget, make sure that:

• Your users first register an account with your application before accessing Belvo.
• You implement the Success and Exit callback functions.
• You Implement the widget in update mode to handle links with an invalid or token_required status.
• You use the institutions.resources field to define which institutions to display in the widget.
• If using single links, you use the fetch_resources parameter to asynchronously receive historical data about your user.

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We strongly recommend that you follow the flow of first registering your user with your platform and only then using the widget. This way, you avoid any link duplication issues.

2️⃣ Error Handling

Make sure that your integration can handle and log the request_id of:

• 400 and 401 errors
• 500 Errors
• Timeout errors

We ask you to log the request_id just in case you need to reach out to our support team. With this ID, we can speed up the troubleshooting process and figure out a solution for you.

3️⃣ Request Handling

Can your integration handle:

• 201 Success responses
• 204 Success responses (when you delete some data)
• Pagination

Additionally, make sure that with successful responses, you store:

• The unique identifier for the object (for example, the transaction.id)
  This will allow you to avoid having duplicated objects (such as transactions) in your database.

4️⃣ Webhooks

Whether you are using single or recurrent links, make sure you:

• Set a webhook URL in the dashboard so that you can receive webhook events.
• If needed, set a refresh rate of 6, 12, or 24 hours (contact our sales team).
• Only send GET requests after you receive a webhook event.

Please remember that you'll need to set different webhook URLs depending on the environment you're working in.

5️⃣ Link creation and management

Does your integration:

• Store the institution_user_id when a link is created? (useful to avoid duplicate links).
• Monitor for invalid and token_required link statuses, and if needed, prompt your users to update their credentials?

6️⃣ Non-breaking changes

If we make the following non-breaking changes to our API, are you sure it won't affect your integration?

• New fields or a different order in the response body.
• Change the number of characters for a string.
• Return yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ timestamps, where S are microseconds (from 3 to 6 digits) and Z is either +00:00 or Z.
• Add new endpoints.

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Timestamp change

On 01-03-2022, we will change our timestamps to consistently return only ISO 8601-format timestamps, that is, 2022-02-01T20:25:47.307911Z.

7️⃣ URL and API Keys

When you are switching to Production, make sure that:

• You are calling the production version of the Belvo API (https://api.belvo.com).
• You are using your Belvo Production API Keys.
• You are storing your API keys securely.

8️⃣ Subscribe to updates

Make sure you've subscribed to the following services to be up to date on the status of our API and institutions:

• Belvo API status
• Institution status (see our dedicated guide)