Postman is a very popular tool to help make API calls (and much more!). The Postman Collection and Environment below can be used to quickly start testing Experian APIs. The Postman Collection includes numerous test examples for each API endpoint for the following products on developer.experian.com
Businesses API - Access via API to Experian's commercial database of over 25 million active businesses in the US
Business Owners API - To approve more small businesses, blending consumer and commercial data will yield more predictive results
Small Business Credit Share API - For SBCS members, access to robust financial tradeline information and trending data
Social Media Insights API - Raw social media data on businesses is transformed into predictive attributes and our Social Media Insight score
Account Monitoring Service API - To help users proactively monitor business-to-business credit portfolios and view changes to customers' credit profiles.
Business Activity API - To help customers understand if a business is open, closed, transforming, or thriving by tapping into online, social, and credit sources of business activity and engagement.
DecisionIQ API - To help you deliver real-time decisions to your customers so that they keep coming back for more. The DecisionIQ API fully automates the commercial credit decision process, from end-to-end. It's fast, reliable, and with integrated workflow processing and a rules-based decision engine, DecisionIQ delivers the streamlined credit application.
HazardHub API - By translating geospatial data sets into grades and ratings that are easy to understand, HazardHub provides risk assessments for air, fire, earth, water, and man-made hazards, which let you make better, faster decisions.
OSHA API - To help you automatically collect OSHA Inspections and Violations related to a business across its various operating locations to better understand the nature and severity of OSHA violations and the businesses current financial exposure as a result.
Sentinel API - Experian's commercial fraud suite empowers risk and fraud managers with effective tools. Helping them improve their customers' lifecycle from application to fraud prevention and case management. It is built for optimizing experiences and internal efficiencies while accurately detecting commercial fraud.
Small Business Financial Exchange API - To deliver accurate and comprehensive information on over 38 million active businesses in the US. The combination of SBFE Data and Experian's extensive commercial data will allow you to increase coverage and develop a clearer picture of small-business financial health.
US Business Database API - To get the freshest, most accurate and targeted information about virtually all businesses in United States. With over 16 million active US companies, you can drill into all aspects of the business with over 60 filters, getting just the information append to existing records or a new prospect target list.
- Use our Quick Start Guide to help you create an account and an app for the “Businesses API” on our developer portal
- Import the Postman Collection and Environment files into Postman
- Plug in your username, password, client ID, and client secret into the “Get Token” example in the Postman collection
- Ensure the “Businesses Sandbox” environment is selected in Postman
- Run the token request – the token will automatically be written to the environment file. Tokens are valid for 30 minutes.
- Try making samples requests for the “Businesses API” using the collection examples