Gift Card Balance
3 min
The giftCardBalance call is intended to retrieve an Account Protection Score when a user attempts to view a gift card balance on your website.
Timing
The API call should come to the Interceptas Platform:
- After a user attempts to check their gift card balance.
- After they pass error handling, and you retrieve their account details, IP Address, and User Agent.
- Before you respond to the user.
Flow

Gift Card Balance flow
- User navigates to your website and goes to the gift card balance page.
- User submits their card information.
- Client processes front-end validation to ensure all fields are filled in properly.
- Client processes back-end error handling (card expired, invalid number).
- Client retrieves account information, IP, and user agent.
- Client's backend server calls Accertify.
- Accertify consolidates data and returns a score.
- Client determines appropriate action for the gift card balance check.
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