Quick Start
1: Retrieve your API keys
Log in or create an account with the Abound Dashboard to find and retrieve your API keys.
API keys are environment specific and can be found on the Keys page.
2: API authentication
Authentication requires passing your bearer token for the desired environment (sandbox or production) in the Authorization
header of your API request.
The bearer token is in the format of: appId
.appSecret
The following is an example request that returns all Tin Verifications with the required Authorization
header.
3: Make your first sandbox API call
As an example, let’s perform a test Tin Verification to see if Ada Lovelace’s tax identification number is 111-11-1111.
tin test values
In this example, 111111111
is one of our many sandbox tin
test values. A
complete list of tin
test values can be found
here.
a. Request a new Tin Verification.
To request a new Tin Verification call POST /tin-verifications
.
b. Save the response
The response from POST /tin-verifications
is shown below and it’s a match!
Ensure that you save the tinVerificationId
and the tinFingerprint
to your own database for future reference.