Common Data Types

Working with dates

When working with dates, the Allawee API provides and expects the following:

• Dates in the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD).
• Timestamps (date and time) are in the RFC 3339 format. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Working with monetary values

In fields that represent a monetary value, the type should be a number. Both your monetary values in POST and PUT requests and our monetary values in GET requests should be in the lowest unit of the currency: 100 will represent 1 naira.