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Release 8-29-2025

6 days ago

Hello partners! Please read below for changes and improvements from July & August 2025 to large sets of BaaS documentation, including all of our API guides related to the accounts category, as well as eWallet tokens and PCI Widget / Hosted UX.

High-Level Overview

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Updated & Improved

  • BaaS APIs Overall Information Architecture
    • We have updated the highest-level categories of our APIs in the site itself in order to present them in a more user-friendly way for our partners navigating our documentation. More information can be found below in the full update.
  • Account & User Management API Guides
    • Major overhaul of all documentation in this category.
    • Every API Guide page in this section has been:
      • Rewritten
      • Added more accurate overviews and contextual information
      • All APIs have been updated and cross-linked to their respective API Reference pages which contain even more technical information for developers
      • New APIs have been added
      • Deprecated APIs have been removed
      • Categorized endpoints by functionality when applicable
  • eWallet Tokens API Guide
    • This API Guide has been updated and improved to include essential prerequisite information for either iOS / Apple Pay or Android / Google Pay as applicable
  • PCI Widget > Hosted UX API Guide
    • Found under "Card Management", our PCI Widget API Guide has been renamed to better represent how this API is used today for our Hosted UX feature. This API Guide has also been updated to include more information related to Hosted UX and provides information on moving from the deprecated API to the new one. Please plan accordingly for any new implementations.

Updated & Improved

Improved BaaS API Guide Information Architecture

We have updated the highest-level categories of our APIs in the site itself in order to present them in a more user-friendly way for our partners navigating our documentation. The changes are as follows:

  • Enrollments > Account Creation
  • Accounts > Account & User Management
  • Transfers > Money Movement Transactions
  • Private Network Transactions > moved into Money Movement Transactions
  • Instant Transfers > Instant Transactions
  • Cards > Card Management
  • Webhooks > no changes
  • Appendices > Developer References

We hope these changes will make it more obvious what sets of API Guides fall under these categories and creates a more defined experience in our Developer Portal.

Account & User Management API Guides

Major overhaul of all documentation in this category.

  • Every API Guide page in this section has been:
    • Rewritten
    • Added more accurate overviews and contextual information
    • All APIs have been updated and cross-linked to their respective API Reference pages which contain even more technical information for developers
    • New APIs have been added
    • Deprecated APIs have been removed
    • Categorized endpoints by functionality when applicable

These new API Guides are now useable for the following features and use cases found on our Account & User Management Overview:

  • Accounts - Account management and account insights related functions.
  • Users - Manages user profiles, validates personal and financial information, handles credit details, and manages identityā€‘related processes within a program/account.
  • Purses- Empowers financial program platforms to offer flexible savings tools within user accounts.
  • Multiple Account Holders - Our Joint Account API can change an individual account to become a joint account. Certain other APIs are affected by or return differently for joint account scenarios.
  • External Accounts - Manages customer profiles, linked financial accounts (banks/cards), and transfer operations within the Green Dot ecosystem.
  • Transaction History - Retrieves, filters, and interprets financial transaction data for specified accounts and purses.
  • Statements & Documents - Retrieves eStatement and tax document information.

The following API Guides have been moved from their original locations:

eWallet Tokens API Guide

Found under the "Card Management" category, this API Guide has been updated and improved to include essential prerequisite information for either iOS / Apple Pay or Android / Google Pay as applicable.

PCI Widget > Hosted UX API Guide

This API Guide has been renamed from PCI Config to Hosted UX, better representing how this feature and functionality is used for our partners. While this API still relies on PCI Widget API functionality - it has since been updated and the Hosted UX version is the most up to date and should be the only version of the PCI Widget used.

This API is responsible for configuring or retrieving details of PCI (Payment Card Industry) for a customer account (entirely on Green Dots end). This allows a partner to stay out of scope from PCI Compliance while still providing the customer the ability to perform activities involving card data. This API takes an "activity" as well as a "success" and an "error" URL as request and provides a GD hosted URL in response. The customer can be directed to this GD-hosted URL as a web-view in the partner's app for a seamless experience for the customer.

However, please note that we have also provided details for our DEPRECATED pciConfig API that is an older version of the PCI Widget API for any partners still using it while they prepare to transition to the new and enhanced Hosted UX version.