We at Green Dot hope you have been enjoying our new and improved API & SDK Developer Portal! Detailed in this release are important additions and changes our partners should know.

High-Level Overview

• New Service & APIs – FSC Retail – Financial Service Center retail partners can now integrate with Green Dot’s new FSC Retail service for different prepaid card transactions.
• New Documentation for Existing Feature – Cash Pickup – Partners can now utilize new documentation that details Green Dot’s Cash Pickup feature. Cash Pickup enables partners to provide their customers instant access to cash at participating retail locations.
• Updated API – Transfer API Idempotency – Added note to Transfers API that partners should “Please note that although transferIdentifier is optional, if it us used, it must be unique between each Transfer.”
• Developer Portal Improvements – Continued enhancements to improve discoverability and organization of API content.
• General bug fixes and system improvements.

New Feature

Green Dot’s FSC Retail Service

• Green Dot’s FSC Retail service is an RPC style JSON API which interfaces with the GD system for different prepaid card and Direct Deposit Account (DDA) transactions, such as new card sales, reloads, unloads, as well as obtaining account information and voiding pending transactions.
• The main function of the FSC Retail Service is to communicate with Green Dot for different prepaid card transactions.
  Types of Prepaid Card and DDA transactions are:
  • Validate Registration (CIP Check)
  • New Card Sale
  • Initial/Swipe Reload
  • Get Card Information
  • Void/Cancel Reload
  • Unload Funds
• For more information, please visit our FSC Retail Overview.

New Documentation for Existing Feature

Green Dot’s Cash Pickup Feature

• Green Dot’s Cash Pickup feature enables partners to provide their customers instant access to cash at participating retail locations in order to:
  • Withdraw cash from an account or digital wallet
  • Push payouts to customers that lack an account or prefer to receive funds in cash
• Green Dot provides Cash Pickup capabilities for the partner as part of Green Dot's Disbursement Platform. Cash Pickup functionality is made up of two parts:
  • Generate a claim code (see Barcode Generation) The partner will integrate with the API hosted by Green Dot to generate claim codes for the customer.
  • Customer consumes the claim code at a retail store (see Barcode Consumption)
    The partner needs to implement this API to authorize Cash Pickup transactions at a retail location. When the customer presents the barcode at a store, Green Dot will send authorization requests to the API.
• For more information, please visit our Cash Pickup Overview.

Updated API

API Category: Transfers API

• transferIdentifier – Added note for Transfer Idempotency that reads:
  • “Please note that although transferIdentifier is optional, if it us used, it must be unique between each Transfer.”

Platform Upgrades

• Developer Portal UX Improvements - Continued information architecture and other UX improvements to improve content discovery and navigation.