Link Money is a suite of software that helps developers connect their applications to third-party sources of financial data, such as banks and credit unions. With LinkMoney, developers receive a dedicated front-end account linking solution managed through FinGoal. Access to user data is exposed to the developer through an API. Developers may also register to receive near-instantaneous data updates through LinkMoney webhooks.
Large Institution Integrations
Instant Account Verification (IAV)
LinkMoney is targeted at developers who can use the Link Money Web Gateway and integrate with the LinkMoney API. Some developers have standalone applications and find the LinkMoney solution more cost-effective and easier to integrate than other solutions.
Other developers may be building for larger institutions, such as an applet within a bank application. In these cases, LinkMoney becomes a platform-wide solution instead of a fintech application-specific solution. All developers in these implementations consume the same instance of the LinkMoney application. For more details on these sorts of integrations, see Large Institution Integrations.
The LinkMoney documentation is a single-source document which describes the entire LinkMoney implementation to all relevant stakeholders. Development, Product, Dev Ops, QA, and Leadership all use this documentation as a source of truth for LinkMoney. While this format means that a broad array of topics might be covered, documentation should be written for a general audience and assume no predicate knowledge.
While this serves as a good general rule, some topic page may be directed at a single, or very specific, audience. In these cases, the article should be tagged with an audience label so readers understand that a particular article is audience-specific. This should most commonly happen with Endpoint, Troubleshoot, Task, and Method documentation, where the article may assume some previous knowledge of a topic, such as user story writing or JavaScript development.
The LinkMoney documentation is composed of pages that follow rigid style guidelines. Each article may be one of six types of documentation:
Concepts are overviews of a particular subject or component in the LinkMoney system.Tasks are step-by-step instructions on how to do certain things.References are tables that make large quantities of information easily digestible.Troubleshoots are specific tasks that help resolve known problems.Endpoints describe how to interact with specific resources in the API.Methods describe low-level functions in the code documentation.Concept articles are great for understanding broad topics, but Tasks, most notable How To Guides, are the best way to learn how to do things with LinkMoney. Each of the main topics covered in LinkMoney have How-To sections which are divided by audience, along with the top-level How-To Guide Index.
Look to the How-To Guide Indexes in the relevant areas to find step-by-step guides (much like this one) for executing certain tasks. Task articles stand on their own for purposes of doing particular things but contain backlinks to relevant concepts for more reading and deeper dives.
The LinkMoney documentation is a living document that is always undergoing alteration. If you find incorrect or missing information, correct or add it (following the appropriate documentation styling). If you have a question on a piece of documentation but do not know how or if the documentation needs correction, make a comment on the article or line with an @ reference to the article's author.
If you find a larger gap in the LinkMoney documentation that you do not know how to write (such as missing concept or a relevant task walkthrough), request it in by adding it to the table or email [email protected].