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Glossary

A​

  • Account : User's account for a provider
  • API (Resource Server) : The resource server is the API server (REST API v2) used to access the user's information.
  • Authorization Server : The delegated authentication server. This is the server that allows to authenticate both your client and the user account

C​

  • Category : Category for a Transaction
  • Client (The Third-Party Application) : The service company that uses our services as aggregation provider. It is the application that is attempting to get access to the user's account. It needs to get permission from the user before it can do so.
  • Connection : Connection to the Provider

E​

  • Embedded : Indicating that a form to collect users credentials is built (scraping mode).

R​

  • Redirect : Indicating that the user should be redirected on a web browser to perform an authentication on the provider's website (using the PSD2 directives)

P​

  • Provider : Institution containing the user's data on which we are able to create a connection to retrieve the information

Q​

  • Queues : The queue contains the list of events that occur during asynchronous processes (add a connection, synchronization of datas)

S​

  • Sandbox : The sandbox is an environment dedicated to testing our solution, you can develop your solution and integrate Linxo Connect widgets with the same components as the production ones

T​

  • Transaction : Banking transaction

U​

  • User (Resource Owner): The resource owner is the person who is giving access to some portion of their account.

W​

  • Webhook: Mechanism allowing an integrator to be notified of some business events sent on a URL communicated by the integrator.
  • Widget: The service that hosts the webviews and connects to the API.