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Create a Session Token

Any Plaid experience a user sees such as connecting a bank account, verifying identity, or sharing a credit report is considered a session. Today, most sessions happen through Link and the token to start these Link session is a link token created and configured via link/token/create. Sessions are a higher level abstraction where configuration primarily happens in Plaid Dashboard. Depending on the template id provided, the session may a Link session, specified by a Link token, or may be another experience in the future. A primary benefit is that configuration changes can be done in Dashboard with no code changes required.

Currently, this endpoint is only supported for Layer templates and Link but is reserved in the future to initialize other end-user Plaid experiences. The returned Link token is used as an parameter when initializing the Link SDK. For more details, see the Link flow overview.

post/session/token/create

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.

template_idstring required

The id of a template defined in Plaid Dashboard

Response

OK

request_idstring required

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

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