Employers

employersSearch

POST
/employers/search

/employers/search allows you the ability to search Plaid’s database of known employers, for use with Deposit Switch. You can use this endpoint to look up a user's employer in order to confirm that they are supported. Users with non-supported employers can then be routed out of the Deposit Switch flow.

The data in the employer database is currently limited. As the Deposit Switch and Income products progress through their respective beta periods, more employers are being regularly added. Because the employer database is frequently updated, we recommend that you do not cache or store data from this endpoint for more than a day.

Authorization

PLAID-CLIENT-ID PLAID-SECRET Plaid-Version
PLAID-CLIENT-ID<token>

In: header

PLAID-SECRET<token>

In: header

Plaid-Version<token>

In: header

Request Body

application/json

EmployersSearchRequest defines the request schema for /employers/search.

client_id?string

Your Plaid API client_id. The client_id is required and may be provided either in the PLAID-CLIENT-ID header or as part of a request body.

secret?string

Your Plaid API secret. The secret is required and may be provided either in the PLAID-SECRET header or as part of a request body.

query*string

The employer name to be searched for.

products*array<string>

The Plaid products the returned employers should support. Currently, this field must be set to "deposit_switch".

Response Body

application/json

curl -X POST "https://example.com/employers/search" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "query": "string",    "products": [      "string"    ]  }'
{  "employers": [    {      "name": "Plaid Inc.",      "address": {        "city": "San Francisco",        "country": "US",        "postal_code": "94103",        "region": "CA",        "street": "1098 Harrison St"      },      "confidence_score": 1,      "employer_id": "emp_1"    }  ],  "request_id": "ixTBLZGvhD4NnmB"}