Rabobank developer portal helps you develop, innovate, and grow your business. Sign up to access our APIs and start creating amazing experiences.

This document covers the following:

• Sign up
• Register an application
• Subscribe to a plan
• Starter APIs

Sign up

It is easy to get started with the Rabobank Developer portal. 

Sandbox account

1. Navigate to the Rabobank Developer portal and click Sign up for Sandbox.
2. Enter your details in the generated form and click Create new account. You should receive an activation email to activate your account.
3. Follow the instructions in the email and click Activate.
4. Click Login and select Sandbox to login with your new account.

Multi factor authentication 

Multi-Factor Authentication is an additional security feature designed to prevent unauthorized access.

• Enter your credentials and click Sign in. You should receive an email with a one-time passcode to verify your identity.
• Enter the code and click Continue.

You are all set to explore our APIs.

User Profile

You can edit your personal and/or organization details by clicking your name.

My Account

View 
Here you can View your personal details as entered at the time of account creation.

Edit 
Select Edit to change/add more details and click Save to save your changes. 
You can also choose to delete your account by clicking Delete account. Click Confirm to confirm the action.

Note: This action will permanently delete your account and remove all your data. This data cannot be recovered.

My Organization

Here you can edit your organization details.

Tip: In case of multiple organizations, you can select the organization you want to view by using the User profile drop down.

Select Edit organization to edit your organizations name. Click Submit to confirm and Cancel to go back. 
You can also choose to delete your organization by selecting Delete Organization → Confirm. 

Note:

• You can only perform these actions if you an owner of the selected organization.
• You cannot perform Delete Organization action if your account is only linked to one organization. You should be a member of at least more than one organization.
• This action will permanently delete your organization and remove all its data. This data cannot be recovered.

Add a user

1. To add a user, click Add a user.
2. Enter their email address and select a Role.
3. Click Invite new user to confirm.

An email is sent to the specified address. The user is added to your organization after they sign up.

Register an application

An application allows you to manage your API credentials.

1. Click My Apps.
2. Next, Click Register app +
3. Enter the required details.
   • Title - Title for your application.
   • Certificate - For security, all clients/apps that want to interact with our mutual TLS enabled APIs should have a X.509 certificate. Read our Mutual TLS documentation to know more
   • Description - Purpose of your application.
   • Application OAuth Redirect URL(s) - Redirection URLs.
4. Click Save.

Info: Upon save, the Key and Secret for your application are displayed. Make sure that you copy and store the Secret to a secure location, this secret is only displayed one time.

The details regarding your application are displayed. You may upload an image to identify your application.

Certificate

You can choose to add an mTLS certificate while creating your application:

Alternatively go to My apps → Select your application → Click Edit.

You may use an example certificate:

⤓ cert.pem ⤓ key.pem

or create one:

1. Add a public certificate to your application. 
2. You can open the public certificate file using any word processor like Microsoft word, notepad or any text editor.
3. Copy the content of the public certificate in the Certificate field and click Save.

If you do not have a certificate. You can create one using the below openssl snippet using a command prompt or command line.

Credentials

Every application has one set of Client ID - Client secret to identify the generated API requests.

Note: Client ID and Client Secret are the same as Key and Secret respectively.

You can choose to have multiple credentials per application:

1. Click +Add credentials.
2. Enter a Name and Summary.
3. Click Save. 
4. Follow the above instruction for the displayed Secret.

Subscribe to a plan

After you have registered an application, you can select the available APIs, and subscribe your application to a plan. This plan determines the number of calls you can make to the selected API using your application.

1. Click API documentation to look at the overview of our available APIs.
2. The displayed tiles with API product names show you the following options:
   • Overview - General information about the API product. 
   • View APIs - The APIs available within the product.
   • Subscribe app - Subscription plans available for the API.
3. Select the plan and click Subscribe.
4. Select your application from the displayed box and click Next.
5. Review the details and click Done to subscribe.

Your subscriptions are available in My apps → Your application → Subscriptions.

Starter APIs

You can now begin your Rabobank API journey with our Starter APIs. These APIs allow you to test how Rabobank APIs work and how to use the Client ID and Mutual TLS.

Go to Rabobank developer portal -> API documentation -> Starter APIs.

Our APIs reflect the following tags to better identify them according to your business needs:

• Starter - Tutorial APIs to get started.
• PSD2 - Payment Services Directive 2, regulated APIs open to use if you have a PSD2 licence. These API gives control to the user to choose which information to share.
• Idea - API is still an idea, access only select access for testing.
• Prototype - First draft of the API, only select access for testing
• Premium - Paid APIs for commercial use.
• Early access - API not yet released to everyone, but select access granted.
• Deprecated - Deprecated APIs that will be removed from the portal soon. It is not advised to use these APIs for new publications any longer.
• SDK  - Downloadable software development kit, which allows you to connect your application to the Rabobank cards. 
• Version number - Latest available API version.