Retail Consumption Overview

This document outlines the technical specification of communication between Green DotNetworkand Partners. The content in this document is intended to guide and assistpartners in integrating withGreen Dot Network.

The API contains the following operations:

Service

This is a SOAP-based web service, Content-Type is “text/xml” and charset is “utf-8”.

For development environment setting details, please see Appendix C.

Development Environment Settings

For development environment settings, please do the following:

Green Dot Development & Testing Environment URL:

https://partners.greendotonline.com/GDCPartners/GDCWS_GDNPartnerAPI/GDNPartnerAPIService.svc

2. Green Dot Development & Testing EnvironmentHost File Settings:
   Please add the following entries to your “host” file to point your development & testing environments to Green Dot’s development & testing environments accordingly.
   
   
   For Green Dot’s “QA-4” environment:
   67.131.213.47 gdcpartners.greendotcorp.com
   67.131.213.47 partners.greendotonline.com
   
   
   For Green Dot’s “QA-3” environment:
   67.131.213.49 gdcpartners.greendotcorp.com
   67.131.213.49 partners.greendotonline.com

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For PRODUCTION environment, there will not be any need to add HOSTS file entries.

Glossary

Green Dot Initiated:
Green Dot initiates the request.

Partner hosted:
Partner is hosting the API.

PUSH:
Green Dot is sending the request to Partner.

Note: The above terms are used interchangeably in this document.