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Digital Toolkit Meetup

Background Context / Details

This used to be known as the Digital Toolkit Office Hours, but is now known as the Digital Toolkit Meetup.

New name, same content.

Who is hosting the meetup?

The Jack Henry Digital Developer Relations team.

What is the meetup?

From the Jack Henry Events page:

Get answers to your technical Digital Toolkit questions during this monthly meeting with our Developer Relations team.

The focus is on:

  • What is currently possible
  • Talk about what and how folks can build with the Toolkit
  • Avoid speculation on future improvements

What is this not?

  • Not a Sales pitch
  • Not a Roadmap discussion

Where does the meetup take place?

Virtually / online via Zoom webinar.

When is the meetup?

From the Jack Henry Events page:

Second Tuesday of every month

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT

How do folks attend the meetup?

Third party developers can register on the Jack Henry Events page.

Why do we host the meetup?

We strive to make things as self-service as possible for 3rd party developers who read the docs on JackHenry.Dev.

However, we know that it’s not always possible for folks to understand some of the implications of the docs.

We also know that we are not staffed to handle many synchronous meetings given the vast number of financial institutions and fintechs that exist in the market. We try to steer folks towards asynchronous communications if the docs are insufficient.

The Digital Toolkit Meetup is intended to provide a time-boxed method for synchronous communication. Sometimes higher fidelity communication is a an unavoidable necessity. Hosting monthly office hours helps reduce the pressure on the team while still providing a better experience for 3rd party developers.

Running the Office Hours

General Structure

  • Welcome and Introductions of the JHA panel
    • Example:

    Welcome to the Digital Toolkit Meetup. Today we have [panelist-names-go-here] from Jack Henry as our panelists.

  • Statement on what the meetup is about
    • Example:

    The office hours are focused on answering technical questions that you may have about the Digital Toolkit. Again, these office hours are meant to help with technical questions. If you have questions related to the Roadmap, please sign up for the (quarterly) Digital Banking Meetup at jackhenry.com/resources/events and direct your questions there.

  • Instructions to use the Zoom webinar’s Q&A feature
    • Example:

    If you have questions, please enter them in the Q&A area. Please note that we are not monitoring the chat for questions. Please use the Q&A area to ask questions.

  • Check Q&A for best, most relevant, or widely applicable topics
    • Example:

    Looks like we have a question from [name-goes-here] regarding [interesting-topic].

  • Answer the question, ideally with a link to the docs on JackHenry.Dev
    • Example:

    Thank you for the question. The doc for that is [doc-link-goes-here] on JackHenry.Dev.

    • Example:

    [more-info-as-necessary-or-follow-up-clarifying-question]

  • Closing
    • Example:

    That’s about all the time we have for today’s meetup. Thank you for your questions, as they will help us improve our documentation. Have a good day and goodbye.

Useful Resources

During the meetup, we may need to show some additional materials to help folks understand particular concepts or to explain specific situations.

Here are some that a panelist can bring up on-screen as useful reference.

JackHenry.Dev

Tutorials and Quickstarts

Plugin Framework

Consumer API

Frequently Asked Questions

Can we see a Demo of Banno and its basic features?

What is Open Banking, how does it relate to the Digital Toolkit?

What is the Banno Digital Toolkit?

  • Presentation: JAC/SEC 2021 - Session 7151 “The Banno Digital Toolkit”
    • Topics covered:
      • Philosophy behind the Digital Toolkit
      • Mechanics behind the Digital Toolkit
      • Examples of uses by:
        • Autobooks
        • OMNI Community Credit Union
        • Simmons Bank
      • Translate use cases to Toolkit features
      • Somewhat deeper (not very deep) dive into Toolkit features:
        • Plugin Framework
        • Consumer API
        • Admin API
        • Authentication Framework

How have others used the Toolkit?

Webinar:

“Unlocking the Banno Digital Toolkit for Embedded Fintech”

  • From October 21, 2021
  • Testimonials by these FIs:
    • OMNI Community Credit Union
    • Simmons Bank
Webinar:

“Fintech-Focus: Pave Your Own Way with the Banno Digital Toolkit”

  • Testimonials by these Fintechs:
    • DeepTarget
    • Autobooks
Website:

Autobooks

  • Fintech focusing on small businesses
  • They built a plugin for small business invoicing and online payments
  • Went live across many Banno FIs
Publicity:

DeepTarget

  • They went live with their advertising plugins with these FIs:
    • Signature Federal Credit Union
    • Five County Credit Union
Publicity:

Unifimoney

  • Fintech focused on trading:
    • Cryptocurrencies
    • Stocks
    • Precious metals (e.g. gold)
Publicity:

Plinqit

  • Fintech focused on:
    • financial literacy
    • savings

Publicity:

Array

  • Fintech focused on:
    • Credit scoring
    • Identity protection

Publicity:

Neural Payments

  • Fintech focused on:
    • Payments (send and receive across arbitrary payments networks)

Publicity:

Unblu

  • Fintech focused on :
    • Conversational customer support and collaboration
Case Study:

OMNI Community Credit Union

  • They built their own plugin to let members self-serve:
    • open checking accounts
    • open debit accounts
    • handle overdraft tolerance
    • enroll in e-statements

How much does it cost to use the Toolkit?

  • For FIs:
    • Offered at zero cost, zero lift for enabling API access for a Fintech
    • FIs are empowered to partner with Fintechs, without needing Jack Henry’s permission
  • For Fintechs:
    • Offered at zero cost, zero lift for receiving API access from an FI
    • Fintechs are empowered to partner with FIs, without needing Jack Henry’s permission