Overview
Welcome developers. To fully get started developing a Yodlee FinApp you need to register on Yodlee MoneyCenter, but before you do reading this 'How to' and reading the following 'Specs' page should give you enough information to decide if this is right for you.
Why Would I Want to Develop a Yodlee FinApp?
The Yodlee FinApp platform gives you the ability to build applications that help people figure out how to better manage, spend, or indulge in life with their money. Consumers use Yodlee PersonalFinance through their primary bank or a web portal banking service. With Yodlee PersonalFinance they can put all of their financial accounts, from any financial institution in one place and manage and pay bills from that solution. Yodlee offers this service to 26 million consumers through the top 200 banks and top portals. What this means for you is that the Yodlee FinApp you develop has the potential to be sold to this available and growing marketplace through the Yodlee FinApp Store.
What Can I Build as a Yodlee® FinApp Developer?
Use your imagination. Create a Yodlee FinApp for a "Sanity Vacation Saver" and watch your palm tree light up the more money saved for a Maui trip, or have the stack of cash grow as a users investments grow in an "Invest Best" application. With the rich data available in the Yodlee PersonalFinance solution, you can create anything, and we hope you do. Here are some examples:
Track Spending
By using APIs that show how a person has been spending their money, that person can visualize their cash flow and make better money management decisions.
APIs Used
- Transaction Search
Trends
The Yodlee platform gives a Yodlee FinApp access to historical account balances for multiple account types including, credit cards, bank accounts, investments or any other linked financial accounts. This information can be trended to show consumers how their balances are growing or shrinking over time.
APIs Used
- Account Summary
- Account Details
- Transaction Search
How To Become a Yodlee® FinApp Developer
Becoming a Yodlee FinApp developer is easy.
- Register to be a user on Yodlee MoneyCenter
- Your next four clicks are: <Try Yodlee Beta>; <My Profile>; then <Customize> the link on the top right, next choose <I am a Developer>
- Register, accept the Terms and Conditions
- The account will now have access to "Store -> SDK Documentation" to download the documentation and sample applications.
If you have any questions, send them to developer@yodlee.com
What do you need to become a Yodlee developer?
Knowledge of Adobe Flex, or a willingness to learn it, is a must. In addition, there are 3 things:
A verifiable e-mail address.
We need to contact you.
A verifiable US identity.
We do business in the United States and we need you to have a presence here as well.
A verifiable US bank account.
When you make money from your FinApps, we need to pay you!
What do you need to become an International Yodlee developer?
International developers will require the same things. If you are unable to accept the Yodlee MoneyCenter terms and conditions, contact us at developer@yodlee.com and Yodlee can work to provide access to testing environment:
A verifiable e-mail address.
A verifiable US Entity.
An LLC, Corporation or other US entity.
A verifiable US bank account.
This should be an account for the US entity.
Why Register on Yodlee MoneyCenter?
Yodlee MoneyCenter, the showcase for all Yodlee solutions, is accessible through the Yodlee.com site. This is the only place to access the Yodlee SDK documentation - we need to you accept our terms and conditions, before we give you the details of our SDK and access to the development platform. All of the detailed developer documentation is there, and you can download development tools, stage and test your application there with your own live data and the API set.
