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Create solutions for an institution's back office support tools.
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Map customer identities to your existing system IDs.
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Overview

Admin API > Overview

The Admin API uses modern technologies to provide a rich, consistent developer experience. Likewise, it adopts modern standards to secure access to user’s financial data.

Authentication

The Admin API uses the Authentication Framework to provide secure authentication.

See the Authentication topic for authentication details specific to the Admin API.

See the Authentication Framework docs for details that apply to all authentication schemes.

REST and JSON

The Admin API is based on REST and has predictable resource-oriented URLs.

The Admin API uses standard HTTP verbs and status codes and returns JSON-encoded responses.

Core platforms

The Admin API works with data from these core platforms offered by Jack Henry:

Banking core platforms

  • SilverLake
  • CIF 20/20
  • Core Director

Credit union core platform

  • Symitar
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Last updated Mon Jul 17 2023