VR-Bank Ellwangen API Access & Open Banking Data

Reach your VR-Bank Ellwangen accounts through a single, privacy-first open banking layer. open-banking.io links to more than 2,600 European banks and gives you a clean, unified view of balances and transactions — without certificates, screen scraping, or handing anyone the keys to your data. Everything is decrypted locally with a key that only you hold, so the service itself only ever stores ciphertext.

VR-Bank Ellwangen (BIC GENODES1ELL) is fully supported for both business and personal accounts, with PSD2 consent valid for up to 180 days before you renew it.

How to connect VR-Bank Ellwangen

Connecting happens entirely inside the open-banking.io dashboard — there is no API call, code, or key involved in this step:

  1. Sign up for open-banking.io and set your encryption passphrase. Your key pair is generated on your own device, so the service only ever sees your public key.
  2. In the dashboard, search for VR-Bank Ellwangen and choose the account type you want to link (business or personal).
  3. You are redirected to VR-Bank Ellwangen's own secure login and consent screen, where you approve access directly with the bank.
  4. Once approved, your accounts sync back into the dashboard and stay refreshed for the life of the consent.

Because you authorise on the bank's own page, open-banking.io never sees your VR-Bank Ellwangen credentials.

Access your data

After a connection exists, developers can optionally read it programmatically. On the Developers page, create an API key and export a credentials.json — this bundles your API key and your private decryption key. From there use the CLI (openbanking accounts, openbanking transactions, openbanking sync), an SDK, or the REST API. Requests authenticate with the X-Api-Key header, and every response is decrypted locally with your key. An API key on its own only ever returns ciphertext — without your private key there is nothing readable to expose.

All of this runs for roughly EUR 3/month.

Does open-banking.io store my VR-Bank Ellwangen login?

No. You authenticate on VR-Bank Ellwangen's own consent screen; the service holds only your public key and encrypted data.

Can I use both business and personal accounts?

Yes. VR-Bank Ellwangen supports business and personal account types, each connected separately in the dashboard.

How long does access last before I re-approve?

PSD2 consent for VR-Bank Ellwangen lasts up to 180 days, after which you renew it from the dashboard.

Start at open-banking.io.