Prepare a sandbox payment request with Tink

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What you will build

Create a payment-request object in a Tink sandbox app, inspect the stored amount and recipient, and prepare the user handoff. Creating the request stores the proposed payment; the account holder must complete the Tink Link flow before execution.

1. Before you start

Create a sandbox app in Tink Console and enable payment:read and payment:write. Set TINK_CLIENT_ID and TINK_CLIENT_SECRET. Install Python 3 and requests. Use only the documented demo recipient and Demo Bank for this exercise, and keep your sandbox app credentials separate from live ones.

2. Try the task

Save as tink_request.py. The first call obtains a client token; the second creates the sandbox request and saves its identifier.

import json, os, requests
from pathlib import Path
r = requests.post("https://api.tink.com/api/v1/oauth/token", timeout=60,
    data={"client_id": os.environ["TINK_CLIENT_ID"],
          "client_secret": os.environ["TINK_CLIENT_SECRET"],
          "grant_type": "client_credentials", "scope": "payment:read,payment:write"})
r.raise_for_status()
token = r.json()["access_token"]
payload = {"recipient": {"accountNumber": "IT60X0542811101000000123456", "accountType": "iban"},
           "amount": 10, "currency": "EUR", "market": "IT", "recipientName": "Test AB",
           "sourceMessage": "Sandbox tutorial", "remittanceInformation": {
               "type": "UNSTRUCTURED", "value": "TUTORIAL TEST"},
           "paymentScheme": "SEPA_CREDIT_TRANSFER"}
r = requests.post("https://api.tink.com/api/v1/payments/requests", timeout=60,
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + token}, json=payload)
r.raise_for_status()
result = r.json()
Path("tink-payment-request.json").write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
print("Request ID:", result["id"])

3. Check the result

Compare the returned amount, currency, recipient and request ID with the proposed payment. Use Console's link builder with the sandbox app and request ID if you continue into Demo Bank. A callback is a handoff signal; query the documented transfers endpoint to establish the payment state after the demo flow.

4. Troubleshooting

• Missing app scopes can block token creation or the request.
• The shared API host does not itself prove you are using a sandbox app; check credentials before running.
• A stored request is not an executed payment.
• After an ambiguous creation timeout, inspect existing state rather than creating repeated requests without tracking their IDs.

5. Try it on your task

Build a local confirmation screen from the returned request. Show recipient, amount, currency and the explicit next step. Test a canceled Demo Bank flow separately from a completed flow and make sure neither is inferred solely from arriving at a callback URL.

Build the output around the question your application needs to answer. Keep account identifiers, currency and data timestamps together. Do not replace missing balances with zero or combine amounts across currencies. A connection that succeeds is only one part of a useful integration; the returned data must also match the selected user and account.

Keep test data and real customer data separate in your run notes. When writing a public review, describe the integration steps and observed behavior without including account numbers, tokens or transaction descriptions. A sandbox trial can establish that your parser and error handling work on the test fixtures; it does not establish coverage of every live bank.

Documentation

• Tink sandbox payment request and user handoff

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  --outcome "${OUTCOME:?Set your actual outcome}" \
  --text "${REVIEW_TEXT:?Describe what happened}" --dry-run

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