ValidateAccountGetBranchDetails

The ValidateAccountGetBranchDetails function combines the StandardiseAccount, ValidateAccount and BranchDetails functions into one. This function attempts to Standardise the Account Number, and if valid, Validates the Account Number for the Sorting Code, and if valid, attempts to return the Branch Details. 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=ValidateAccountGetBranchDetails

The ValidateAccount method takes 5 parameters

Parameter	Parameter Description
sSortcode	The 6 digit sortcode
sAccountNumber	The 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 (standard or non-standard) 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/ValidateAccountGetBranchDetails?sSortcode=string&sAccountNumber=string&sUserName=string&sGUID=string&sIPAddress=string

The response returns 85 fields consisting of 3 Validation and Error fields and 82 ISCD fields.
For a list of the ISCD fields and a full specification visit ISCD Specification.

A typical Valid response will look something like this (Note: not all fields are shown):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> -     <BranchDetail 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 />           <GENERALSortingCode>110932</GENERALSortingCode>           <GENERALBIC1>HLFXGB21</GENERALBIC1>           <GENERALBIC2>I78</GENERALBIC2> ..........          ........................................................      <PRINTTelephoneNumber />        <PRINTTelephone2Area />        <PRINTTelephone2Number />       </BranchDetail>

The response will have one of the following formats:
 

ValidationMessage	IsError	ErrorMessage	ISCDFields x 82
VALID	false	blank	ISCD Record
INVALID : "Invalid Reason here"	false	blank	blank
blank	true	ERROR : "Error Message here"	blank

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