Get started with Bank Validation

Bank Validation is an API-only service. If you want to add Bank Validation to your website, this guide will get you up and running as quickly as possible.

This guide is broken up into the following sections:

• Choose which endpoint to use
• Create a new API key
• Understand your response fields
• Try it out

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Choose which endpoint to use

Bank Validation features four different endpoints, and which one you choose will be determined by what you’re looking to achieve.

• Interactive Validate (v2): individual validation for UK bank accounts
• Batch Validate (v1): batch validation for UK bank accounts
• International Interactive Validate (v1): individual validation for international bank accounts (excluding the US)
• Interactive RetrieveBySortcode (v1): individual validation for UK bank accounts if you only have the sort codes to go on

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Create a new API key

Any Loqate API key will work with Bank Validation, however we recommend the following:

• Create a new key dedicated to Bank Validation, rather than reusing a key used for another service
• Create a generic API key

For more details, see our Creating API Keys page.

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Understand your response fields

You can find a full breakdown of all available Bank Validation response fields in our API docs.

Link to API docs

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Try it out

Link to demo page