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External Identifiers

We allow you to use your existing identifiers of key entities to refer to the same entities within our system. This streamlined approach minimizes the integration complexities, eliminating the need to oversee and track PAF identifiers for the same entities in the system.

For example, when creating a customer in the PAF system, you will provide the User ID as part of creating the record. Any subsequent API requests to manage this customer will key off the User ID you provided. You can reuse your own internal identifier or issue new ones depending on your needs and information security requirements.

We call these External Identifiers. In general, this model was put into place to reduce your integration efforts and complexity, and have you up and running faster and more efficiently. Currently we define external identifiers for;

  • User Identifiers

Where external identifiers are used, you do not need to be concerned about clashes with other PAF clients as we ensure uniqueness at the client level.