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(Deprecated) Check digital income verification eligibility and optimize conversion

/income/verification/precheck is an optional endpoint that can be called before initializing a Link session for income verification. It evaluates whether a given user is supportable by digital income verification and returns a precheck_id that can be provided to /link/token/create. If the user is eligible for digital verification, providing the precheck_id in this way will generate a Link UI optimized for the end user and their specific employer. If the user cannot be confirmed as eligible, the precheck_id can still be provided to /link/token/create and the user can still use the income verification flow, but they may be required to manually upload a paystub to verify their income.

While all request fields are optional, providing either employer or transactions_access_tokens data will increase the chance of receiving a useful result.

This endpoint has been deprecated; new integrations should use /credit/payroll_income/precheck instead.

post/income/verification/precheck

Request body

client_idstring

Your Plaid API client_id. The client_id is required and may be provided either in the PLAID-CLIENT-ID header or as part of a request body.

secretstring

Your Plaid API secret. The secret is required and may be provided either in the PLAID-SECRET header or as part of a request body.

transactions_access_tokenstring nullable

The access token associated with the Item for which data is being requested.

transactions_access_tokensAccessToken[]

An array of access tokens corresponding to Items belonging to the user whose eligibility is being checked. Note that if the Items specified here are not already initialized with transactions, providing them in this field will cause these Items to be initialized with (and billed for) the Transactions product.

Response

precheck_idstring required

ID of the precheck. Provide this value when calling /link/token/create in order to optimize Link conversion.

request_idstring required

A unique identifier for the request, which can be used for troubleshooting. This identifier, like all Plaid identifiers, is case sensitive.

confidence'HIGH' | 'LOW' | 'UNKNOWN' required

The confidence that Plaid can support the user in the digital income verification flow instead of requiring a manual paystub upload. One of the following:

"HIGH": It is very likely that this user can use the digital income verification flow.

"LOW": It is unlikely that this user can use the digital income verification flow.

"UNKNOWN": It was not possible to determine if the user is supportable with the information passed.

Changes

Changed in 7 of the 52 revisions of this API.1154

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  added the new ASSETS_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new CRA_MONITORING_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new CREDIT_PROFILE_REPORT_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new ENCOMPASS_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new ENRICH_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new FRAUD_INSIGHTS_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new FREDDIE_MAC_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new LINK_DELIVERY_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new PROFILE_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
  response-property-enum-value-added
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  added the new RECURRING_TRANSACTIONS_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new STATEMENTS_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
  response-property-enum-value-added
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  added the new TRANSFER_RECURRING_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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  added the new TRANSFER_REFUND_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
  response-property-enum-value-added
This revision also has 3 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog
Jun 25, 202680d23bfdc2e51See the full diff
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  added the new IDEMPOTENCY_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
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Jun 10, 2026fb8c3f188d8b1See the full diff
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  added the new BASE_REPORT_ERROR enum value to the error_type response property for the response status default
  response-property-enum-value-added
This revision also has 8 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog
Dec 11, 2025465584b48c992See the full diff
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  added the optional property provided_account_subtypes to the response with the default status
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  added the optional property required_account_subtypes to the response with the default status
  response-optional-property-added
This revision also has 4 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog
Nov 19, 20254abee1c569291See the full diff
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  removed the IDENTITY_ERROR enum value from the error_type response property for the response status default
  response-property-enum-value-removed
Nov 12, 2025f8b9f1a857671See the full diff
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  the employer/url request property type/format changed from string/ to string/url
  request-property-type-changed
This revision also has 4 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog
Feb 21, 20245de70cc1e6ca1See the full diff
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  the employer/url request property type/format was generalized from string/url to string/
  request-property-type-generalized
This revision also has 699 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog

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