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      You have completed Plaid Link. Sample payment information shown.

      GET /payment/get

       
                        
      MORE ABOUT LINK

      How did this work?

      Behind the scenes


      You completed the Plaid Link onboarding. Link is a pre-built interface that interacts with Plaid's API servers to take you through a streamlined, fully-encrypted onboarding process.

      Once you successfully entered valid credentials, Link verified them and made a request to the Plaid API to retrieve the account data above. For more information on how this works technically, see the documentation below.

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      Exchange token flow


      Plaid Link returns a public_token for a given user, which can be exchanged for an access_token using the Exchange Token endpoint.

      In this example, we pull the public_token from the query string and send it to the app server. The app server will make two Plaid API requests using your private client_id and secret. The first will exchange the public_token for a Plaid access_token. The second will use that access_token to retrieve account information, including account names and current balances.

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