Get Providus Account

Get a Providus bank user account.

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Test Base URL

https://api-staging.providusbank.com

Production Base URL

https://api.providusbank.com

HTTP Request

POST /GetProvidusAccount

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Providus Account.

POST https://api-staging.providusbank.com/v1/GetProvidusAccount

Get Providus Account.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
Username	string	Username of account owner
Password	string	Password of account owner
account_number	String	account number for the account

200 Account successfully retrieved

{
    "accountStatus":"ACTIVE",
    "emailAddress":"[email protected]",
    "phoneNumber":"08054477605",
    "accountName":"CHARLY ODUMODU BLACK",
    "bvn":"22100477606",
    "accountNumber":"5900043856",
    "cbaCustomerID":"45139",
    "responseMessage":"SUCCESSFUL",
    "availableBalance":"468520.951",
    "responseCode":"00"
}

401: Unauthorized Permission denied

400: Bad Request The server cannot process the request due to a client error, such as malformed syntax or invalid parameters in the request.

500: Internal Server Error Server encountered an unexpected error

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Sample Implementation

Curl

curl --location 'https://api-staging.providusbank.com/GetProvidusAccount' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "accountNumber": "1700263070",
    "userName" : "test",
    "password" : "test" 
}'

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "accountStatus":"ACTIVE",
    "emailAddress":"[email protected]",
    "phoneNumber":"08054477605",
    "accountName":"CHARLY ODUMODU BLACK",
    "bvn":"22100477606",
    "accountNumber":"5900043856",
    "cbaCustomerID":"45139",
    "responseMessage":"SUCCESSFUL",
    "availableBalance":"468520.951",
    "responseCode":"00"
}

Python

import requests
import json

url = "https://api-staging.providusbank.com/GetProvidusAccount"

payload = json.dumps({
  "accountNumber": "1700263070",
  "userName": "test",
  "password": "test"
})
headers = {
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "accountStatus":"ACTIVE",
    "emailAddress":"[email protected]",
    "phoneNumber":"08054477605",
    "accountName":"CHARLY ODUMODU BLACK",
    "bvn":"22100477606",
    "accountNumber":"5900043856",
    "cbaCustomerID":"45139",
    "responseMessage":"SUCCESSFUL",
    "availableBalance":"468520.951",
    "responseCode":"00"
}

Java

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\n    \"accountNumber\": \"1700263070\",\n    \"userName\" : \"test\",\n    \"password\" : \"test\" \n}");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api-staging.providusbank.com/GetProvidusAccount")
  .method("POST", body)
  .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
  .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "accountStatus":"ACTIVE",
    "emailAddress":"[email protected]",
    "phoneNumber":"08054477605",
    "accountName":"CHARLY ODUMODU BLACK",
    "bvn":"22100477606",
    "accountNumber":"5900043856",
    "cbaCustomerID":"45139",
    "responseMessage":"SUCCESSFUL",
    "availableBalance":"468520.951",
    "responseCode":"00"
}

JavaScript

var data = JSON.stringify({
  "accountNumber": "1700263070",
  "userName": "test",
  "password": "test"
});

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function() {
  if(this.readyState === 4) {
    console.log(this.responseText);
  }
});

xhr.open("POST", "https://api-staging.providusbank.com/GetProvidusAccount");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");

xhr.send(data);

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "accountStatus":"ACTIVE",
    "emailAddress":"[email protected]",
    "phoneNumber":"08054477605",
    "accountName":"CHARLY ODUMODU BLACK",
    "bvn":"22100477606",
    "accountNumber":"5900043856",
    "cbaCustomerID":"45139",
    "responseMessage":"SUCCESSFUL",
    "availableBalance":"468520.951",
    "responseCode":"00"
}

PHP

<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new HTTP_Request2();
$request->setUrl('https://api-staging.providusbank.com/GetProvidusAccount');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
$request->setConfig(array(
  'follow_redirects' => TRUE
));
$request->setHeader(array(
  'Accept' => 'application/json',
  'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
));
$request->setBody('{\n    "accountNumber": "1700263070",\n    "userName" : "test",\n    "password" : "test" \n}');
try {
  $response = $request->send();
  if ($response->getStatus() == 200) {
    echo $response->getBody();
  }
  else {
    echo 'Unexpected HTTP status: ' . $response->getStatus() . ' ' .
    $response->getReasonPhrase();
  }
}
catch(HTTP_Request2_Exception $e) {
  echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "accountStatus":"ACTIVE",
    "emailAddress":"[email protected]",
    "phoneNumber":"08054477605",
    "accountName":"CHARLY ODUMODU BLACK",
    "bvn":"22100477606",
    "accountNumber":"5900043856",
    "cbaCustomerID":"45139",
    "responseMessage":"SUCCESSFUL",
    "availableBalance":"468520.951",
    "responseCode":"00"
}

C#

var options = new RestClientOptions("https://api-staging.providusbank.com")
{
  MaxTimeout = -1,
};
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("/GetProvidusAccount", Method.Post);
request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
var body = @"{" + "\n" +
@"    ""accountNumber"": ""1700263070""," + "\n" +
@"    ""userName"" : ""test""," + "\n" +
@"    ""password"" : ""test"" " + "\n" +
@"}";
request.AddStringBody(body, DataFormat.Json);
RestResponse response = await client.ExecuteAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content);

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "accountStatus":"ACTIVE",
    "emailAddress":"[email protected]",
    "phoneNumber":"08054477605",
    "accountName":"CHARLY ODUMODU BLACK",
    "bvn":"22100477606",
    "accountNumber":"5900043856",
    "cbaCustomerID":"45139",
    "responseMessage":"SUCCESSFUL",
    "availableBalance":"468520.951",
    "responseCode":"00"
}