Formatting Requirements

To ensure accurate processing and categorisation, please adhere to the following formatting rules when submitting transaction data:

1. Amount Sign Convention:

   1. Credit (Incoming transactions): must be negative 🚨
   2. Debit (Outgoing transactions): must be positive 🚨
      

   {
     "original_description": "Salary Payment",
     "amount": -5000.00   // Credit 
   }
   
   {
     "original_description": "Noggin Store",
     "amount": 150.75     // Debit 
   }

   This convention is required for correct transaction direction detection and downstream categorisation.

2. Date Format:

   1. Dates must be provided in the following format: YYYY-MM-DD 🚨
   2. No other date formats are supported

Failure to follow these conventions may result in incorrect categorisation or rejected requests.

Optional Fields

To enhance categorisation accuracy, you should include the following additional contextual fields in your request payload.

1. Customer Name: The name of the customer as it appears on the account.
2. Account Information: A list of bank accounts associated with the provided transactions.