ValidateAccount

The ValidateAccount function is used to Validate a UK Bank Sortcode and Account Number. A formal description of the function can be found in the 'Service Description' section of

http://ws.esortcode.com/bankdetails.asmx

or for a sample SOAP request and response

http://ws.esortcode.com/bankdetails.asmx?op=ValidateAccount

The ValidateAccount method takes 5 parameters

Parameter	Parameter Description
sSortcode	The 6 digit sortcode
sAccountNumber	The 8 digit account number
sUserName	The unique Account Name given to you when you register
sGUID	The Globally Unique Identifier(GUID) assigned to you when you register
sIPAddress	IP Address. (Leave this blank)

and can be invoked as follows replacing the 'string' values where appropriate:

Response = http://ws.esortcode.com/bankdetails.asmx/ValidateAccount?sSortcode=string&sAccountNumber=string&sUserName=string&sGUID=string&sIPAddress=string

A typical Valid response will look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> -     <Validation xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://ws.esortcode.com">           <ValidationMessage>VALID</ValidationMessage>           <IsError>false</IsError>           <ErrorMessage />       </Validation>

The response returns 3 fields and will have one of the following formats:
 

ValidationMessage	IsError	ErrorMessage
VALID	false	blank
INVALID : "Invalid Reason here"	false	blank
blank	true	ERROR : "Error Message here"

SSL Note: If you are using Secure Socket layers you can replace http with the https prefix in the above examples.