Adding funding source with Plaid link

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1

Hi,

I’m going through the document to initiate an ACH debit. I’m going through the steps and I can’t seem to create a funding source correctly.

  1. Create customer:

     http POST https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/customers \
 Content-Type:application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json \
 Accept:application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json \
 Authorization:"Bearer xxx" \
 firstName="Jane" \
 lastName="Doe" \
 email="janeDoe@nomail.net" \
 ipAddress="99.99.99.99"

  2. Add funding source:

     http POST https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/customers/5323bef8-f160-4b21-961f-ff9d9f95ad72 \
 Content-Type:application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json \
 Accept:application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json \
 Authorization:"Bearer xxx" \
 plaidToken=public-sandbox-xxx \
 name="Jane Doe’s Checking"

  3. Ensure funding source is linked to customer:

     http GET https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/customers/5323bef8-f160-4b21-961f-ff9d9f95ad72/funding-sources \
 Content-Type:application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json \
 Accept:application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json \
 Authorization:"Bearer xxx"

I unfortunately get an empty list below for “funding-sources”:

{
    "_embedded": {
        "funding-sources": []
    },
    "_links": {
        "customer": { ... },
        "self": { ... }
    }
}
2

Hi @gavnewalkar,

Thanks for posting the steps you took to get to the response, it helps us a lot!

Looks like it’s got to do with the endpoint you’re POSTing to in Step 2. Changing that to the following endpoint should work,

https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/customers/5323bef8-f160-4b21-961f-ff9d9f95ad72/funding-sources

Would you also be able to ensure that the plaidToken you are passing over to Dwolla is a Dwolla processor_token and not a public_token? In order to create a funding-source in Dwolla, we require the processor_token to be passed in the funding-source creation request. You can check out our documentation and/or Plaid’s Docs for information on how to retrieve the Dwolla processor_token.

Please let us know if you come across any questions!

3

Hi shreya,

That worked. Thanks for your help!

4

Glad you got it working! You’re very welcome, Gav!