Regular Payments Finder

Summary

Regular payments finder uses our regularity enrichment to provide two endpoints;

  1. GET v1/regular-transactions - Provides a list of a customer's regular transactions based on their transaction history
  2. GET v2/future-transactions - Provides a list of transactions predicted to occur in the future

Retrieve Regular Transactions

This endpoint will return a list of the given customer's regular transactions. An example of a 200 response can be seen below.

{
  "operation_id": "regular_transactions_get",
  "data": [
    {
      "label": "8a29913437a6d2e72a9576a15593f43d92cfc2eb-0",
      "period": "monthly",
      "score": "0.9892",
      "transactions": [
        {
          "provider": "Lloyds",
          "account_id": "688cb2e1-fca9-4d77-bbd3-604abb3c9d46",
          "transaction_id": "c5a50ce9-5523-47b4-8c08-3cd8e30e34a6",
          "transaction_description": "Foxtons - Rent",
          "date": "2019-06-02T00:00:00+0000",
          "amount": {
            "amount": "1325",
            "currency": "GBP"
          },
          "credit_debit_indicator": "Debit",
          "merchant": {
            "id": "foxtonslimited",
            "name": "FOXTONS LIMITED",
            "logo": "https://assets.thisisbud.com/bud-datasci-images/merchant_logo_placeholder.png"
          }
        },
        {
          "provider": "Lloyds",
          "account_id": "688cb2e1-fca9-4d77-bbd3-604abb3c9d46",
          "transaction_id": "70778a02-ea30-4465-b651-65189fd3c51d",
          "transaction_description": "Foxtons - Rent",
          "date": "2019-07-02T00:00:00+0000",
          "amount": {
            "amount": "1325",
            "currency": "GBP"
          },
          "credit_debit_indicator": "Debit",
          "merchant": {
            "id": "foxtonslimited",
            "name": "FOXTONS LIMITED",
            "logo": "https://assets.thisisbud.com/bud-datasci-images/merchant_logo_placeholder.png"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
curl --request GET \
     --url https://api-sandbox.thisisbud.com/v1/regular-transactions \
     --header 'X-Client-Id: <client_id>' \
     --header 'X-Customer-Id: <customer_id>' \
		 --header 'X-Customer-Secret: <customer_secret>' \ # Not required for hosted customers
     --header 'accept: application/json'

This response contains a summary of the groups of regular transactions including a label, and period, as well as all transactions within the regular group. Currently, the following periods are supported:

  • daily
  • weekly
  • biweekly
  • monthly
  • quarterly
  • unknown

In the case that no regular transactions can be found you will receive a 204 response with an empty body.

If you receive a 400 response like below, please check the headers you're sending in the request before trying again.

{
  "operation_id": "regular_transactions_get",
  "code_id": "failed_validation",
  "message": "Failed validation",
  "errors": {
    "client_id": "This value should not be blank"
  }
}

In the case that you receive a 500 response please retry your request and if the problem persists please raise a support request.

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Please note, Regular Transactions will only contains transaction within the last 12 months.

Retrieve Forecasted Transactions V2

This endpoint will return a list of a customer's forecasted transactions. This endpoint also contains two query parameters; months, which allows you to specify how many months we return the predicted transactions for (the default is 3 months) and change_percentage[subcategory], which can be a positive or negative float number and allows you to predict a customer's rising or falling transaction costs based on inflation/deflation.

{
  "operation_id": "v2_future_transactions_get",
  "data": [
    {
      "transaction_id": "fdcc55c6-f347-4abc-8c66-61ff290d8bd4",
      "account_id": "fdcc55c6-f347-4abc-8c66-61ff290d8bd4",
      "transaction_description": "Bud",
      "label": "8a29913437a6d2e72a9576a15593f43d92cfc2eb-0",
      "period": "monthly",
      "date_time": "2019-07-01T01:00:00Z",
      "amount": {
        "value": "100.00",
        "currency": "GBP"
      },
      "credit_debit_indicator": "credit",
      "confidence": "0.9892",
      "future_transactions": [
        {
          "date": "2022-08-01",
          "amount": {
            "value": "102.00",
            "currency": "GBP"
          }
        },
        {
          "date": "2022-09-01",
          "amount": {
            "value": "104.04",
            "currency": "GBP"
          }
        },
        {
          "date": "2022-10-01",
          "amount": {
            "value": "106.12",
            "currency": "GBP"
          }
        },
        {
          "date": "2022-11-01",
          "amount": {
            "value": "108.24",
            "currency": "GBP"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "results": 1,
    "months": 4,
    "change_percentages": [
      {
        "l2": "bills",
        "value": 2
      }
    ]
  }
}
curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://api-sandbox.thisisbud.com/v2/future-transactions?months=3&change_percentage[subcategory]=change_percentage%5Bloans%5D%3D2.0' \
     --header 'X-Client-Id: <client_id>' \
     --header 'X-Customer-Id: <customer_id>' \
     --header 'X-Customer-Secret: <customer_secret>' \ # Not required for hosted customers
     --header 'accept: application/json'

This response will contain a summary of the regular transaction including a label, transaction description, period and amount as well as the predicted future transactions for the regular group. Currently, the following periods are supported:

  • daily
  • weekly
  • biweekly
  • monthly
  • quarterly
  • unknown

In the case that there are no forecasted transactions you will receive a 204 response with an empty body.

If you receive a 400 response, please check the headers you're sending in the request before trying again.

In the case that you receive a 500 response please retry your request and if the problem persists please raise a support request.

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Please note, calculations for Forecasted Transactions will only take into consideration transactions that occurred within the last 12 months





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