Get the Default ACH Relationship

Fetch information about the default ACH relationship

Overview

This GET endpoint enables you to retrieve information about the default ACH relationship.

There are four required parameters that must be provided in the request:

1. Et-App-Key (header). This is the unique key of your app that identifies your app when communicating with our service. Contact your administrator to get this key.

2. Authorization (header). This is the authorization token from the very first token request.

3. API version (path). Unless necessary, leave it at "1.0".

4. accountId (path). This is the internal identifier of the trading account in Autoshares Trader.

Here's the final template for this API request:

GET apiURL/v1.0/accounts/{accountId}/ach-relationships/default

Response

In response to this API request, you will receive a JSON dictionary containing detailed information about the default ACH relationship.

{
  "Id": "someID-da10-40bc-060a-08d7bacaad26",
  "AccountId": 0,
  "RoutingNumber": "051000017",
  "AccountNumber": "987654321222",
  "AccountOwnerName": "Eugeny",
  "Name": "Citi Bank",
  "Status": "Pending",
  "CreatedAt": "2020-03-16T15:38:41.5766667Z",
  "ApprovalMethod": "Instant",
  "Default": false
}

where:

Parameter	Description
Id	This is the internal identifier of the default ACH relationship in Autoshares Trader.
AccountId	This is an Autoshares Trader's trading account to which the ACH relationship.
RoutingNumber	This is the routing number of the bank who opened the banking account. You can view sample routing number on this page.
AccountNumber	This is the number of the banking account in the target bank. For example: 987654321222.
AccountOwnerName	This is the name of the banking account owner. For example: Robert.
Name	This is the name of the target bank. For example: Citi Bank.
Status	This is the status of the ACH relationship.
CreatedAt	This is the precise time and date at which the ACH relationship was created.
ApprovalMethod	This is the approval method. The value of this parameter can be either Instant (Plaid) or Manual (Micro deposits).
Default	This boolean value indicates if this ACH relationship is a default one for this trading account.

Common Mistakes

Here are some of the common mistakes that developers make when attempting to retrieve information about the default ACH relationship.

Failing to Specify the Et-App-Key Parameter

If you specify the wrong Et-App-Key parameter or fail to include it in the header altogether, you'll get the following error:

{
    "error": "Application key is not defined or does not exist"
}