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At Axle, security and privacy are at the forefront of everything we do. We leverage the latest in cloud infrastructure and weave secure-by-design and privacy-by-design principles into our engineering DNA.

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Axle's powerful API makes it easy for you to quickly retrieve detailed information from your users' insurance policies. Here at Axle, we're champions for consumer data control and privacy, so you'll need to gain consent from the user to access their information.

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Start an Ignition session. Returns the ignitionUri to direct the user to authenticate.

Start Ignition

This guide will walk you through the various statuses that occur during an Ignition session.

Ignition Status Handling

Exchange an authorization code for an access token. Ignition returns an authCode as a query parameter at the redirectUrl upon successful completion of the Ignition flow.

Auth codes are ephemeral and expire after 10 minutes, while accessTokens do not expire.

Exchange Token

An Account represents an account with an insurance carrier and includes high-level account information (e.g. name) and any Policy objects associated with the Account.

The Account object

The Get Account method will return an Account object including high-level account information (e.g., name) and any children objects (e.g., Policies) associated with the Account. Please note that this method will NOT refresh the Account object.

Get Account

A Policy represents a specific policy associated with an Account and includes high-level policy information (e.g. policy number) and any children objects (e.g., coverages) associated with the policy.

The Policy object

The Get Policy method returns a Policy object including high-level policy information (e.g., policy number) and any children objects (e.g., Coverages) associated with the Policy. Please note that this method will NOT refresh the Policy object.

Get Policy

The Get Carrier method returns a Carrier object that include additional details about an Axle-supported insurance carrier.

Get Carrier

The Get Carriers method returns an array of Carrier objects.

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