Overview
Before starting integration, it’s important to understand Spade’s approach to enrichment and key concepts for successful implementation. Spade takes a unique approach to card transaction enrichment. We have built data partnerships with a variety of providers, including players in the payments value chain, first-party merchants, location data providers, state registry databases, and more. When we receive transaction data from you, we match it to a real merchant entity in our database — returning granular merchant information including clean name, custom category, geo-location, and more in less than 50ms.Example transaction
The best way to understand the value of our enriched data is to walk through an example transaction. Below you’ll a see a sample transaction with the information provided to Spade in the enrichment request, the data returned, and an example of how you might display that in your UI:
Spade “Matching”
When we match a transaction to a real merchant identity in our database, we will return a variety of data on all parties involved. Typically, with a proper implementation you will see match rates of at least 95%. Even when we don’t match on a merchant, we will still clean the merchant name, sort the data (e.g., move a phone number from the city to phone number field), and provide a category.Core Data Enrichment
Our foundational layer of factual transaction including factual details like merchant name, logo, category, counterparty ID, and location – delivered in real time and designed for consistency across rails.Counterparties and Third Parties
When we match on a transaction, we will separate the parties involved into counterparties and third parties objects:Counterparties
The entity you interact with directly when you make a purchase (in most cases a merchant). We’ll return the following information:
- counterparty ID
- name
- logo
- website
- location
Third parties
Any entity besides the counterparty involved in a transaction, e.g., a payment processor, delivery service, or BNPL provider. We’ll return the following information:
- third party ID
- type
- name
- logo