Overview

The Cardlytics team will provide you with a suite of APIs and developer tools that cover transaction ingestion, notifications, redemptions, servicing and marketing. Using these APIs and tools, you can build a complete rewards experience for your customers, with a suite of supporting products that enable program operations.

Steps

To perform publisher integrations with the Cardlytics platform, follow these steps:

1. Prerequisites: Ensure you have established connectivity for ongoing data transfer and services. This involves setting up Amazon S3 buckets for file transfers and sharing customer transaction data with Cardlytics.

2. Integration: Follow the steps outlined for API integration.

3. Authentication: Obtain a session token for authentication, which is a JSON Web Token representing session metadata.

4. Connectivity: Establish secure connectivity using HTTPS and sFTP over mTLS, with IP address whitelisting and two-way SSL.

5. Testing: Conduct pre-production and production testing to verify connectivity and integration using endpoints like startSession, getAds, and clientEvent.

6. Monitoring and Reporting: Utilize Cardlytics' reporting tools to track customer engagement and program performance, and monitor dashboards for ongoing operations.

Example: How to Start a Session

Here is a basic example of how you might start a session using curl:

curl -X POST https://pub-api-us.prod.cardlytics.com/startSession \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"institutionId": "your_institution_id", "customerId": "your_customer_id"}'

This command initiates a session by sending a POST request to the startSession endpoint with the necessary headers and data.

For more information, refer to these sections:

• Implementation
• Prerequisites