Financial Terms Lookup API

Why use this API?

The Financial Times Lookup API provides you with the correct fee and settlement amounts per the contractual agreement for the purchased SKU.

This API should be used if you are responsible for performing the fund reservation yourself before calling the Clickatell Transact API that will perform the vend.

Participating parties

See here for definitions.

  • Clickatell

  • Client

Getting started with the Financial Terms Lookup API

To interface with Clickatell, the below needs to be set up, configured, and tested.

1

Integrate with Security Service API

  • Follow the instructions in the Security Service API quick-start guide to request a token with your client_secret and client_id.

  • Use the API_key and access_token in the following request (Step 2).

2

Call Financial Terms Lookup API (this API)

  • Add the API_key and access_token to the request header.

  • Use the client_id supplied during integration.

3

Call Transact API

  • Add the API_key and access_token to the request header.

  • Use the client_id supplied during integration.

4

Implement Transact Result API

The following API calls are not discussed in this document as they form part of the respective API0's documentation as indicated below:

A high-level view of this interface.
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