Heron Data
Heron Data enriches and classifies bank transaction data through an API, running inside your Zenoo onboarding and monitoring flows.
At a glance
Overview
Heron Data overview
Heron Data is an API that enriches and classifies bank transaction data, extracting merchant names and categories from raw feeds pulled through providers like Plaid and Yodlee. It suits fintech teams that need clean, categorised transaction data, and it fits a Zenoo flow feeding downstream risk and monitoring checks.
- Company
- Heron Data
- Category
- Transaction monitoring
- Strongest in
- Transaction enrichment and merchant classification
- Best fit
- Fintech teams cleaning bank transaction data
Where it is strongest
Key strengths
What Heron Data does well.
Transaction enrichment
Heron Data focuses on cleaning and classifying raw transaction feeds, extracting merchant and category detail from bank data.
Self-signup and free trial
The product offers a self-signup flow and a free trial with no credit card required, which removes the usual sales friction for evaluation.
Developer-first API
It is built as an API-first product, and founders have cited processing over one million transactions daily.
Who it suits
Best for
Where Heron Data fits, and what to plan for.
Honest notes on the trade-offs, each with a way to cover the gap inside a Zenoo flow.
- Fintech teams processing bank transaction data from Plaid or Yodlee that need it enriched and classified
- Teams wanting to avoid lengthy enterprise sales cycles
- Limited independent reviews. Public technical discussion of Heron Data is thin, so validate accuracy on your own transaction samples during the free trial. Inside Zenoo you can route enriched data to your own risk logic and adjust if coverage falls short.
- Pricing not published. There is no public pricing beyond the free trial, so budget a scoping conversation. Running it in a Zenoo flow keeps you on one contract across providers.
Open the customer's case
What your team sees
The Heron Data result, beside everything else.
The result sits with screening and review on one case, so nobody checks a second tool to see the whole customer.
Hands it to your team
Verification is the first step. Compliance Hub handles the rest.
Once a customer is verified, screening and review happen in Compliance Hub. A possible PEP match lands in your team inbox with the evidence and the full history beside it. Zenoo suggests, your team decides.
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30 minutes. Your data. No slides.