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Accounts #

An Account represents your main Dwolla Connect user account that was established by signing up on dwolla.com. To create External Parties (end-users), attach bank accounts, and send or receive account-to-account payments, you must have a Dwolla account and obtain API credentials.

Resource Overview #

PropertyTypeDescription
_linksobjectHAL-JSON links to related resources.
idstring <uuid>Unique identifier of Account that is assigned by Dwolla.
namestringName of the Account provided upon creation.
createdstring <date-time>ISO-8601 timestamp of when the resource was created.

Account resource example

bash
{
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://api.dwolla.com/accounts/3b0f270c-9cfd-4724-bae8-aa4b1659cbb4",
            "type": "application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json",
            "resource-type": "account"
        }
    },
    "id": "3b0f270c-9cfd-4724-bae8-aa4b1659cbb1",
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "created": "2023-08-10T22:08:46.323Z"
}
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