Plaid resources
External resources to help build your Plaid integration
In addition to the docs here, Plaid has a collection of tools, sample code, SDKs, and videos to help you build your Plaid integration.
Sample apps
Our GitHub contains a number of sample apps to help you get started using Plaid!
Official Plaid Quickstart, available for all supported Plaid backends
A Plaid implementation in 150 lines. Available in JavaScript, Next.Js, React, and React Native frontends.
Best practice usages of Transactions, Assets, and Liabilities APIs
A fully hosted, live version of the Personal Finances sample app.
Best practice usages of Auth, Identity, and Balance APIs for money movement
Best practices for account funding using the Payment Initiation API
Subscription payments with the Transfer API
See Plaid Identity Verification in action! (NodeJS only)
A lending app using the Income API
Plaid Academy videos
Our YouTube series, Plaid Academy, is a fun and engaging way to learn about using Plaid.
Learn the essential concepts of the Plaid API and make your first API calls.
Make your first API calls with Plaid -- without ever writing a line of code!
Every Plaid integration needs to support OAuth. Learn how and why in this video.
Find out more about webhooks in this video.
A comprehensive guide to adding Plaid Auth to your app.
A comprehensive guide to adding Plaid Transactions to your app.
An overview of the Plaid API -- what it does and how to use it.
Making calls to the Plaid API without code -- the version for busy people.
Get an overview of how to integrate with the Income API in just 3 minutes!
Get an overview of how to integrate with the Transfer UI API, in just 3 minutes!
Get an overview of how to integrate with Identity Verification, in just 3 minutes!
Get an overview of how to integrate with Monitor, in just 3 minutes!
Get an overview of how to integrate with Auth, in just 3 minutes!
Get an overview of how to integrate with Signal, in just 3 minutes!
Learn all about Transactions, in just 3 minutes!
Learn to configure the products array for maximum conversion
Interactive Tutorial
Want to get started building a Plaid-powered application directly in your browser? You can do that with the Plaid Basics Interactive Tutorial.
Integration guides
Plaid offers several PDF guides with information from the docs provided in a step-by-step walkthrough format.
- Plaid implementation handbook
- Identity Verification and Monitor solution guide
- Income verification integration guide
- Assets solution guide
- Account funding integration guide for Auth, Balance, and Identity use cases
Launch checklist
The Launch checklist provides a list of steps to help make sure your app is Plaid-optimized and production ready.
SDKs
For information about official and community supported libraries for both the Plaid API and the Link frontend component, see libraries.
Postman
The Postman Collection provides an easy, no-code way to explore the API.
OpenAPI file
The Plaid OpenAPI file is available on GitHub. This file describes the Plaid API in a standardized way suitable for usage with tools for testing, client library generation, and other purposes that ingest OpenAPI/Swagger definition files.
Test data libraries
Plaid maintains a repo of configuration objects suitable for usage as custom Sandbox users to help you test apps in Sandbox.
Credit attributes library
For the Assets and Income products, Plaid maintains a Credit attributes library of scripts that can be used to derive various useful attributes from an Asset Report or Bank Income.
Community
You can join the Plaid Developer Community on Discord or ask questions on Stack Overflow.
Partnerships
Plaid partners can unlock additional functionality, deepen your integrations, or even build out your integration for you! For more information, see the Partner directory.
Third-party resources
Several third party developers have built resources to help you integrate with Plaid. Note that these resources are not built or supported by Plaid, and inclusion of a resource on the list below does not constitute an endorsement by Plaid or indicate that Plaid has evaluated the resource for correctness, security, or anything else.
If you have a third-party resource you'd like to be featured on this list, DM us @plaiddev on Twitter, or reach out to an admin on the Plaid Developer Discord.
- How to Build a Fintech app on AWS using the Plaid API and the accompanying sample app demonstrates how to build a Plaid app on AWS, using the latest Transactions Sync API. The app and tutorial incorporate AWS Lambda for webhook handling and Amazon Cognito for authentication.
- CodeSandbox has several sample apps that use Plaid.
- WebhookDB has a tutorial showing how to use their service to more easily manage Plaid webhooks.
- Venice is a platform that handles common infrastructure requirements for Plaid deployments, including ETL pipelines, token management, webhook handling, and more, allowing you to focus on business logic.
- The CloudQuery Plaid plugin extracts data from Plaid and loads it into any supported CloudQuery destination, such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, or S3.