Postman Collection
Before getting started, install the latest version of Postman.
Import the collection
You can easily fork our public API collection to your Postman by clicking the button below:
Configure environments for Sandbox and Production
To set up your environment for quickest development, you can go to the variables
tab and add your sandbox appId and appSecret to the collection.
We recommend setting up separate environments for Sandbox and Production. This will enable you to quickly switch between environments without having to manually look up and change your API keys.
To create an environment in Postman:
- Select New in the left navigation menu in Postman
- Choose Environment to create a new environment
- Enter Abound Sandbox for the name of your new environment
- Using your keys from our dashboard, enter the following environment variables for your sandbox environment:


Creating the Abound® Sandbox environment
Sandbox environment
Production environment
If you use the global environment variables, you must unset the collection variables for the baseUrl
, appId
, and appSecret


Collection Variables unselected with global environment set to Production
Using the Postman collection
Now that you have your collection and environments configured, you're ready to make our first request. Since Users are our foundational resource of every API call, first create a User.
- Select the Collections icon in the left navigation menu
- Expand Abound API, Users, and then select Create a user
- Ensure you are using the Abound Sandbox environment you created earlier by selecting it in the upper right-hand corner
- Click Send to create a user


Creating a user with the Postman collection
Now that you've created your first user, you will need to use the returned userId
to make other API calls.
- Note the
userId
from our original request to Create a user - Open the Create expenses request in the Postman collection and hover over the
{{userId}}
path variable- You will find that our collection populates the
userId
we just created
- You will find that our collection populates the
- Without additional input, click the Send button to create an expenses for this user


Example of userId being automatically provided for the next request
Since we are creating multiple expenses in this request, Postman only saves the identifier for the first expense as a collection variable.
Updated about 1 month ago