v1

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Search for a user's merchant accounts online.

post/detected-accounts/search

Request body

external_user_idstring required

Your unique identifier for the user.

namesstring[] required

Array of merchant or company names for which you want to identify merchant accounts. Can be a single merchant name or multiple.

Example request

{
  "external_user_id": "123abc",
  "names": [
    "Meta",
    "Uber",
    "johnson & johnson",
    "tiktok"
  ]
}

Response

Successful request.

namestring

The value provided in name in the request.

detectedboolean

Whether a merchant account was detected for the user.

detected_atstring date-time nullable

ISO timestamp when the merchant account was detected on the Knot platform.

Example response

[
  {
    "name": "Meta",
    "detected": true,
    "detected_at": "2025-10-23T17:00:00Z"
  }
]