Nightly Refreshes

Eligibility criteria 

For a card to be eligible to be refreshed, it must comply with the following conditions:

• Schedule refresh must be set as true for the card.

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    • How to Enable or Disable the Nightly Refresh

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• The card must have had a successful refresh, and must have received a cached call* in the last 7 days (for more information regarding refreshes, please refer to Refresh with LoginId  or Refresh through the Dashboard).
  *: not applicable for webhook integrations

• The card should not have had any errors during Authorization or the error should have been: RETRY_LATER, AGGREGATION_ERROR, SESSION_EXPIRED, DISABLED_INSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED, SESSION_NONEXISTENT, BANK_MAINTENENACE_RETRY_LATER

Enabling Nightly Refreshes

If your use-case requires automatic account refresh to keep track of transactional history changes, you can enable Nightly Refresh for new accounts. For this, you need to set the scheduleRefresh parameter to true in the iframe URL.

If your use-case requires automatic account refresh, we recommend you use the Enhanced MFA flow. To activate this feature, the parameter enhancedMFA (only available in Canada) must be set to true in the iframe URL. During the Authentication step, Flinks will attempt to extract all additional MFA Questions and Answers, besides the one that is commonly prompted in the first time connection. Flinks will prompt the user to preemptively answer all additional questions. If you want to give the end user the option to skip this step, add the parameter skipEnhancedMFA set to true in the iframe URL.

Useful endpoints

/GetNightlyRefreshStatus: is the endpoint that returns a list with all the LoginIds that are set to nightly refresh ("IsScheduledRefresh": true), however are no longer refreshing due to errors. Its JSON response will also clarify what was the encountered error on the refresh attempt.

/Authorize: when running the batched cached calls, this endpoint will also return the error message from the previous refresh attempt. In case it doesn’t return any errors, i.e. 200, please make sure you check the date of the latest refresh, as in the snapshot below:

In case this date is too long ago for your use case, please perform a manual refresh. This can be done just by changing the body parameters in /Authorize, as in the example below, and subsequently calling our aggregation endpoints with the provided RequestId.

{

"LoginId":"{{LoginId}}",

"MostRecentCached": false,

"Save": true

}

Suggested Daily Routine

1. Check which LoginIds are no longer eligible to be refreshed:

2. For the LoginIds that are not on the list:

Nightly Refresh Routine

The Nightly Refresh job has a daily routine. The job is scheduled to run from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. (UTC). It will only impact all cards that meet the Eligibility Criteria.

Coverage

At the moment, apart from our Core Coverage institutions on the Retail side, Nightly Refreshes are only supported for PC Financial and Canadian Tire Bank.

For additional information, please do not hesitate to reach out to our support team at:

    Canada: help-ca@flinks.com

    US: help-us@flinks.com