Introduction to Enrich

Enrich your transaction data with merchant, category, and location insights.

API Reference

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Overview

Enrich makes it easy to work with transaction data generated by your own banking products or retrieved from other non-Plaid sources. Enrich brings context and meaning to your data by enriching it with detailed merchant, category, and location information. The enriched data can be used to build apps and features that help users manage their cash flow, earn rewards, and discover other financial products to help them reach their financial goals.

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Sample Enrich data

Below is an example of the enrichments Plaid can provide for a transaction.

1PURCHASE WM SUPERCENTER #1700 POWAY CAUS
1"counterparties": [{
2   "name": "Walmart",
3   "type": "merchant",
4   "logo_url": "https://plaid-merchant-logos.plaid.com/walmart_1100.png",
5   "website": "walmart.com"
6   "entity_id": "O5W5j4dN9OR3E6ypQmjdkWZZRoXEzVMz2ByWM"
7 }],
8 "entity_id" : "O5W5j4dN9OR3E6ypQmjdkWZZRoXEzVMz2ByWM",
9 "location": {
10   "address": "13425 Community Rd",
11   "city": "Poway",
12   "region": "CA",
13   "country": "US",
14   "postal_code": "92064",
15   "store_number": "1700",
16   "lat": 32.959068,
17   "lon": -117.037666
18 },
19"logo_url": "https://plaid-merchant-logos.plaid.com/walmart_1100.png",
20"merchant_name": "Walmart",
21"payment_channel": "in store",
22"personal_finance_category": {
23  "detailed": "GENERAL_MERCHANDISE_SUPERSTORES",
24  "primary": "GENERAL_MERCHANDISE",
25},
26"personal_finance_category_icon_url": "https://plaid-category-icons.plaid.com/PFC_GENERAL_MERCHANDISE.png",
27"website": "walmart.com",

Testing Enrich

Enrich is available for use in all environments.

Sandbox: Test the integration with sample transaction data. Send a request with data from this preset list of sample transactions to receive a response.

Development: Free live usage for up to 1,000 transactions. Send Plaid your transactions and we’ll provide real enrichments.

Production: Paid usage with real enrichments for all your transactions.

When testing Enrich in Development or Production, make sure to use input data and amounts that are as realistic as possible, as all input fields, not just description, are used to analyze transactions.

For more details and best practices on testing Enrich, see the Enrich Testing Guide.

Enrich integration process

  1. Prepare your transaction data for enrichment. Plaid accepts a maximum of 100 transactions per request. For each transaction, include the description, amount, direction, iso_currency_code and id. For even higher quality results, the optional location object should also be provided if available.
  2. Call /transactions/enrich to send Plaid your transactions.
  3. Plaid will provide an API response with all available enrichments for the transactions.