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# Get External Card

> Get External Card




## OpenAPI

````yaml openapi-v2.json get /external_cards/{external_card_id}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  description: >
    <h2>Let's build something great.</h2><p>Welcome to the official reference
    documentation for Synctera APIs. Our APIs are the best way to automate your
    company's banking needs and are designed to be easy to understand and
    implement.</p><p>We're continuously growing this library and what you see
    here is just the start, but if you need something specific or have a
    question, <a class='text-blue-600' href='https://synctera.com/contact'
    target='_blank' rel='noreferrer'>contact us</a>.</p>
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
  title: Synctera API
  version: v2
servers:
  - description: Production
    url: https://api.synctera.com/v2
  - description: Sandbox (no real world financial impact)
    url: https://api-sandbox.synctera.com/v2
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - description: Create and manage wire transfers
    name: Wires
  - description: Simulate receiving Wire transactions and returns
    name: Wire Transaction Simulations
  - description: >-
      Create and manage same currency and multi-currency international wire
      transfers
    name: International Wires (alpha)
  - description: Create and manage payments
    name: ACH
  - description: Simulate receiving ACH transactions and returns
    name: ACH Transaction Simulations
  - description: Configure vendor secrets for egress requests
    name: Egress Gateway Vendor Secret CRUD API
  - description: Configure webhook secrets for egress requests
    name: Egress Gateway Webhook Secret CRUD API
  - description: Create and manage documents.
    name: Documents
  - description: Create and manage EFT Canada transfers
    name: EFT Canada (Beta)
  - description: Create and manage sweep configurations
    name: Configs
  - description: Request to create and manage edd
    name: Trust
  - description: Requests to calculate and manage CRR
    name: CRR
  - description: Requests to issue and manage cards
    name: Cards
  - description: Push and pull from cards
    name: External Cards
  - description: Bulk card issuance
    name: Bulk Issuance
  - description: Requests to generate simulated transactions
    name: Card Transaction Simulations
  - description: Requests to generate simulated webhooks
    name: Card Webhook Simulations
  - description: Requests to create and manage card disputes
    name: Card Disputes
  - description: Requests to simulate card payments
    name: Card Simulations
  - description: Create and manage accounts
    name: Accounts
  - description: Create and manage transactions
    name: Transactions (beta)
  - description: Create and manage spending controls
    name: Spend Controls (beta)
  - description: |
      Requests to create and manage fees
    name: Fees (beta)
  - description: |
      Requests to create and manage Rewards
    name: Rewards (beta)
  - description: Create and manage disputes
    name: Disputes
  - description: Create and manage tenant-level transaction limits
    name: Tenant Limits (beta)
  - description: |
      Requests to create and manage batch payments
    name: Batch Payments (alpha)
  - description: Manage negative balance processes
    name: Negative Balance
  - description: |
      Manage fee products and fee configs for automated fee collection
    name: Fee Products
  - description: |
      Manage reward products and reward configs for automated cashback rewards
    name: Reward Products
  - description: Create and manage holds
    name: Hold
  - description: Create and manage transactions
    name: Transactions
  - description: Create and manage transactions
    name: Transactions (internal)
  - description: Create and manage scheduled transactions
    name: Scheduled Transactions (internal)
  - description: Create and manage spending controls
    name: Spend Controls
  - description: Create and manage tenant configurations
    name: Tenant Configs
  - description: Lookup merchant information
    name: Merchants
  - description: See balance history
    name: BalanceHistory
  - description: API for effective balances
    name: effective_balances
  - description: Transaction lines API
    name: transactions
  - description: Requests for risk evaluation and decisioning
    name: Risk Evaluations
  - description: Requests for transaction risk detection
    name: Transaction risk
  - description: Configuration and management of transaction monitoring rules
    name: Transaction Monitoring
  - description: Request to create and manage deposits using remote deposit capture
    name: Remote Check Deposit
  - description: Request to create and manage rdc configurations
    name: RDC Config
  - description: Apple Pay APIs
    name: Apple Pay
  - description: Requests to create and manage webhooks
    name: Webhooks
  - description: Requests to generate simulated transactions
    name: Cash Transaction Simulations (alpha)
  - description: >-
      Testing endpoints to simulate in-store cash deposits. Available in sandbox
      environments only.
    name: In-Store Cash Deposit Simulations
  - description: Create and manage barcodes for in-store cash deposits
    name: In-Store Cash Deposits
  - description: Create and manage Cash Order and Cash Deposit transfers
    name: Cash Orders and Deposits (alpha)
  - description: FDX authentication and data transfer using Plaid Core Exchange
    name: Plaid Core Exchange (beta)
  - description: Request to create and manage payment_schedules
    name: Cronut
  - description: Request to create and manage statements
    name: Statements
  - description: Create and manage Synctera Pay templates
    name: SyncteraPay
  - description: Account Template
    name: Account Templates
  - description: >-
      Account programs define configurations for payment rails and transaction
      capabilities across different account types.
    name: Account Programs
  - description: Requests to create and manage account products, including fees, interest.
    name: Account Products
  - description: |
      The internal account resource is used for managing links to internal
      accounts where the funds are managed by integrators.
    name: Internal Accounts
  - description: Requests to create and manage API keys
    name: API Keys
  - description: Requests to manage banks
    name: Banks
  - description: Requests to create and manage customers
    name: Customers
  - description: >
      A natural person (individual human) that is relevant to the Synctera
      platform in some way: e.g. a personal customer or a director/officer/owner
      of a business.
    name: Persons
  - description: >
      A legal entity (corporation, partnership, etc.) that is relevant to the
      Synctera platform in some way: a business customer or some other
      organization that has an ownership share in such a business customer.
    name: Businesses
  - description: >
      The fintech profile document resource is used to track the approval status
      of any documents

      which must be reviewed by a bank. This includes regulatory documents which
      will be presented

      to the fintech's end users, and also any documents that help the bank
      understand the

      fintech's fitness for duty.
    name: Fintech Profile
  - description: |
      The disclosures resource is used to track the status of disclosures and
      ensure that all parties have been shown the necessary disclosures to meet
      regulatory obligations.
    name: Disclosures
  - description: |
      The Disclosures resource is used to track the status of disclosures and
      ensure that customers have been shown the necessary disclosures to meet
      regulatory obligations.
    name: Disclosures (deprecated)
  - description: |
      The External Account resource is used for managing links to accounts
      that operate outside of the Synctera ecosystem.
    name: External Accounts
  - description: History
    name: History
  - description: Requests to initiate customer verification.
    name: KYC Verification (deprecated)
  - description: Requests to initiate customer verification.
    name: KYC/KYB Verifications
  - description: Requests to screen parties against sanctions watchlists
    name: Sanctions Screening
  - description: Requests to manage monitoring subscriptions and alerts for customers.
    name: Monitoring
  - description: Requests to manage partners
    name: Partners
  - description: Request to create and manage party groups and party group members
    name: Party Groups
  - description: Requests to create and manage roles
    name: Roles
  - description: >
      Represents the relationships between parties. A relationship can exist
      between personal customers, business customers, or non-customer
      persons/organizations.
    name: Relationships
  - description: Request to create and manage users
    name: Users
  - description: Request to enroll, renew, or cancel watchlist monitors
    name: Watchlist (deprecated)
  - description: Retrieve user identity information
    name: Identity
  - description: Endpoints for modifying or fetching posting dates
    name: Posting Dates
  - description: Admin API for Middesk configuration using the tenants API keys.
    name: Middesk
  - description: Requests to search and manage compliance searches
    name: Compliance Searches
  - description: Requests to configure vendors.
    name: Vendor Configurations
  - description: Requests to create and manage notes
    name: Notes
  - description: >
      Represents the compliance rules that are used to verify certain kinds of
      money movement.
    name: Compliance Rules
  - description: Requests to create licenses
    name: Licenses
  - description: >-
      Used to configure bank accounts for which synctera accounts are considered
      a "subledger" to
    name: Bank Account
  - description: Requests to search financial institutions
    name: Institutions (Beta)
  - description: Requests to manage addresses
    name: Addresses
  - description: Requests to Admins to grant permissions to user
    name: Request Permissions
  - description: Manage contacts for bank and fintech partners
    name: Contacts
  - description: Requests to create and manage personal ID configurations
    name: Personal ID Configuration
  - description: >-
      Migration mappings associate resources from an old tenant identity with a
      new tenant identity.
    name: Migration Mappings
  - description: Create a credit application.
    name: Applications (beta)
  - description: Billing period summaries
    name: Billing Period Summaries
  - description: Customer Service Details for disputes and billing inquiries
    name: Customer Service Details
  - description: Billing rates
    name: Billing Rates
  - description: Rates
    name: Rates
  - description: Lending Config
    name: Lending Config
  - description: Manage credit disputes
    name: Credit Disputes
  - description: Payments related to lending accounts
    name: Payments
  - description: Tenant Config
    name: Tenant Config
  - description: Bank Delinquency Configuration
    name: Bank Delinquency Configuration
  - description: >-
      Per bank/partner account-type mapping to FFIEC collateral codes used for
      regulatory call report furnishment.
    name: Collateral Code Configuration
  - description: >-
      Rules that map a posted payment transaction (bank/partner + transaction
      attributes) to a regulatory payment code. NULL match columns act as
      wildcards.
    name: Payment Code Configuration
  - description: Autopay configuration management for lending accounts
    name: Autopay Configs
  - description: Autopay payment records for billing periods
    name: Autopays
  - description: Configuration for mapping LoanPro events to Payola transaction parameters
    name: LoanPro Transaction Event Config
  - description: >-
      Aggregated write-off amounts for lending accounts, computed from posted
      transactions.
    name: Write Off Amounts
paths:
  /external_cards/{external_card_id}:
    summary: Get External Card
    description: |
      External Card
    get:
      tags:
        - External Cards
      summary: Get External Card
      description: |
        Get External Card
      operationId: getExternalCard
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/external_card_id'
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/external_card_response'
          description: External Card details
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/bad_request'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbidden'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unprocessable_entity'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internal_server_error'
components:
  parameters:
    external_card_id:
      description: The unique identifier of an external card
      in: path
      name: external_card_id
      required: true
      schema:
        example: 7d943c51-e4ff-4e57-9558-08cab6b963c7
        format: uuid
        type: string
  schemas:
    external_card_response:
      properties:
        bin:
          description: Bank Identification Number
          type: string
        creation_time:
          example: '2010-05-06T12:23:34.321Z'
          format: date-time
          type: string
        currency:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/currency_code'
        customer_id:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/customer_id'
        deletion_time:
          example: '2010-05-06T12:23:34.321Z'
          format: date-time
          type: string
        expiration_month:
          description: Card expiration month
          example: '06'
          type: string
        expiration_year:
          description: Card expiration year
          example: '25'
          type: string
        id:
          description: Unique identifier
          type: string
        issuer:
          description: Name of the issuing financial institution
          type: string
        last_four:
          description: The last four digits of the card PAN
          example: '1234'
          type: string
        last_updated_time:
          example: '2010-05-06T12:23:34.321Z'
          format: date-time
          type: string
        name:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/cardholder_name'
        payment_account_reference:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/payment_account_reference'
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/external_card_status'
        tenant:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/tenant_id'
        verifications:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/external_card_verifications'
      required:
        - id
        - currency
        - customer_id
        - expiration_month
        - expiration_year
        - last_four
        - name
        - status
        - tenant
      type: object
    currency_code:
      description: ISO 4217  Alpha-3 currency code
      example: USD
      maxLength: 3
      minLength: 3
      type: string
    customer_id:
      description: Customer ID for the application
      example: 7d943c51-e4ff-4e57-9558-08cab6b963c7
      format: uuid
      type: string
    cardholder_name:
      description: The cardholder name
      example: Jean Valjean
      type: string
    payment_account_reference:
      description: >-
        A unique identifier associated with a specific cardholder PAN and its
        affiliated tokens
      maxLength: 29
      minLength: 29
      type: string
    external_card_status:
      description: Status of an External Card
      enum:
        - ACTIVE
        - SUSPENDED
        - DELETED
      type: string
    tenant_id:
      description: |
        The id of the tenant containing the resource.
      example: abcdef_ghijkl
      type: string
    external_card_verifications:
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/external_card_verification_details'
        - properties:
            state:
              enum:
                - SUCCEEDED
                - FAILED
              type: string
          required:
            - state
          type: object
      description: >-
        Verify card passed AVS and CVV checks and if it able to perform
        PUSH/PULL transfers.
      required:
        - address_verification_result
        - name_verification_result
        - cvv2_result
        - push_enabled
        - pull_enabled
      type: object
    error:
      description: Synctera error responses in API v1 implement a custom error schema.
      properties:
        code:
          description: >
            A machine-readable string that identifies the error for programmatic
            use.
          example: BAD_REQUEST_BODY
          type: string
        detail:
          description: |
            A human-readable string explaining this particular error.
          example: 'Missing required fields: first_name, dob'
          type: string
        status:
          description: HTTP status code for this response
          example: 400
          type: integer
      title: Synctera error response
      type: object
    external_card_verification_details:
      properties:
        address_verification_result:
          description: |
            Address verification results

            Status | Description
            --- | ---
            VERIFIED | AVS verified
            NOT_VERIFIED | AVS not verified
            ADDRESS_MISMATCH | ZIP code match, address no match
            ZIP_MISMATCH | Address match, ZIP code no match
            ADDRESS_AND_ZIP_MISMATCH | Address and ZIP code no match
          enum:
            - VERIFIED
            - NOT_VERIFIED
            - ADDRESS_MISMATCH
            - ZIP_MISMATCH
            - ADDRESS_AND_ZIP_MISMATCH
          type: string
        cvv2_result:
          description: |
            Card Verification Value results

            Status | Description
            --- | ---
            VERIFIED | CVV and expiration date verified
            NOT_VERIFIED | CVV and expiration date not verified
            CVV_MISMATCH | Either CVV or expiration date does not match
            NOT_SUPPORTED | Issuer does not participate in CVV2 service
          enum:
            - VERIFIED
            - NOT_VERIFIED
            - CVV_MISMATCH
            - NOT_SUPPORTED
          type: string
        name_verification_result:
          description: >
            Issuer cardholder name verification result with Account Name Inquiry
            (ANI) service

            The result of verifying the cardholder name against the name on file
            at the issuing institution.

            If this fails, it means the issuing institution has a different
            person's name on file as the cardholder.


            Status | Description

            --- | ---

            VERIFIED | ANI Name verified

            NOT_VERIFIED | ANI Name not verified

            NOT_SUPPORTED | Issuer does not participate in ANI service

            NAME_MISMATCH | ANI Name does not match
          enum:
            - VERIFIED
            - NOT_VERIFIED
            - NOT_SUPPORTED
            - NAME_MISMATCH
          type: string
        pull_details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/pull_details'
        pull_enabled:
          description: Indicates if the card is able to perform PULL transfers.
          type: boolean
        push_details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/push_details'
        push_enabled:
          description: Indicates if the card is able to perform PUSH transfers.
          type: boolean
      type: object
    pull_details:
      description: Additional PULL transfer details
      properties:
        country:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/country_code'
        currency:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/currency_code'
        network:
          description: Payment network
          type: string
        product_type:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/external_card_product_type'
        regulated:
          description: Exemption status from debit card interchange fee standards
          type: boolean
      type: object
    push_details:
      description: Additional PUSH transfer details
      properties:
        country:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/country_code'
        currency:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/currency_code'
        funds_availability:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/external_cards_funds_availability'
        network:
          description: Payment network
          type: string
        product_type:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/external_card_product_type'
        regulated:
          description: Exemption status from debit card interchange fee standards
          type: boolean
      type: object
    country_code:
      description: ISO-3166-1 Alpha-2 country code
      example: US
      maxLength: 2
      minLength: 2
      type: string
    external_card_product_type:
      description: Product type
      enum:
        - CREDIT
        - DEBIT
        - PREPAID
      type: string
    external_cards_funds_availability:
      description: |
        Estimated timeframe of funds availability

        Value | Description
        --- | ---
        NOW | Within 30 minutes
        NEXT | Within the next business day
        FEW | Within a few business days
      enum:
        - NOW
        - NEXT
        - FEW
      type: string
  responses:
    bad_request:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
      description: Bad request
    unauthorized:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
      description: Unauthorized
    forbidden:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
      description: Forbidden
    unprocessable_entity:
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
      description: Unprocessable entity request response
    internal_server_error:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
      description: Internal server error
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      bearerFormat: api_key
      scheme: bearer
      type: http

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