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Sandbox environment

# ASPSPs' sandboxes

After you register a sandbox application, you will get access to a limited number of ASPSPs' sandboxes, i.e. simulation environments provided by ASPSPs to third-party developers.

Enable Banking does not aim to provide access to a large number of ASPSPs' sandboxes, because very often an ASPSP sandbox environment does not accurately simulates its live environment. Moreover, many sandbox environments provides ASPSPs are not suitable for the entire flow simulation, for example, due to hard rate limits, or lack of possibility to redirect end-users to a necessary URL. ASPSPs primarily develop their sandbox environments, for providing the possibility to test basic technical functionality, such as request signing and to address generic interoperability issues with TPPs, thus they are not obliged to entirely simulate live environment.

In case an ASPSP's simulated authentication flow requires credentials to be input, the credentials can be found in the sandbox field of the ASPSP details.

You may experience a situation when an ASPSP sandbox is not working, e.g. you are not able to make simulated authentication, or an error occurs after redirect from the simulated authentication interface, or you are not able to retrieve data for one or several accounts. Mainly this happen due to instability of the ASPSP's sandbox environments or changes made to the sandbox environment without prior notice to TPPs. This does not in any way affect our integration with the ASPSP's live environment and the problem may soon disappear. However sometimes we have to completely disable some ASPSPs' sandboxes, because it is not viable to support them. Please note that due to low traffic and lack of regulatory requirements for ASPSP sandbox environment, at scale it is much harder to maintain stability of sandbox integrations. Please note that filtering doesn't work in all sandboxes. There are some exceptions, such as Nordea and Handelsbanken that support filtering by date.

# Mock ASPSP

We provide the posibility to simulate various aspects for the API behaviour by using the "Mock ASPSP" integration controlled through the control panel on enablebanking.com.

Please refer to the video below on how data entry for Mock ASPSP works.

And the following video shows simulation of the authorisation flow with Mock ASPSP.

You can export data from a real bank account using our account information demo UI (opens new window). You need to choose JSON format and enter FREEEXPORT code before exporting data.

# Limitations

Currently Mock ASPSP has the following limitations:

  • Payment initiation functionality is not provided.
  • When fetching transcations (GET /accounts/{account_id}/transactions), transactions are returned in batches of 10 with more recent transaction occuring first. Please note that batch side and order of transactions are not specified.