# Plaid # Plaid An account-connection vendor used for asset verification and, through the same connection, income. The vendor's strength is the breadth of institutions it connects to, which is what a fallback position in an asset ordering is for: the earlier vendors cover more of the common cases, and this one covers institutions they miss. It sits third in the committed asset ordering. ## Products it serves - Asset - Income - Connection ## Position in the ordering - Income ArgyleAtomicEquifaxExperianFinicityMeridianPinwheelPlaidTrueworkTruework-Instant - Asset EquifaxFinicityPlaid ## Field mapping | Flow | Canonical in | Vendor in | Vendor out | Canonical out | Lender credentials | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `asset` | `staircase-graph` | `asset-input` | `asset-plaid-output` | `staircase-graph` | not enabled | ## How this integration is built - **connection configuration** — The wire protocol. One repository per vendor API call, not per vendor. - **language configuration** — The field mapping between the vendor's vocabulary and the canonical model. - **flow file** — The four-way translation: canonical request, vendor request, vendor response, canonical response. - **waterfall priority** — One line naming where this vendor sits in the vertical's ordering. - **status call** — Activating the vendor for a lender, optionally with the lender's own credentials. ## Evidence This vendor is on the roster because each of the following resolves to a committed artifact. - `StaircaseAPI/asset-product-data product/data/waterfall/waterfall.json waterfall` - `StaircaseAPI/income-pp-data product/data/waterfall/waterfall.json waterfall` - `asset-product-data product/data/flows/plaid.json` - `income-pp-data product/data/flows/plaid.json`