Interac Home

Inspiration

We wanted to make it easier for users to complete Interac e-Transfers using popular Google and Amazon voice assistants.

What it does

Takes spoken Interac e-Transfer commands and processes them using the public Interac e-Transfer API.

How we built it

Created an Action on Google using Dialogflow, created an Alexa skill using AWS.

Challenges we ran into

Encountered issues during Interac API setup and acquiring keys. We were initially unable to perform external API calls from Firebase to Interac, before upgrading our plan.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Completing our first project using node.js and JavaScript, and learning as much as we did

What we learned

How to code in node.js and JavaScript. How to make external API calls from Firebase Cloud Functions.

What's next for Interac Home

Adding ability to send money (currently only requests for money are supported by the Interac API), adding and saving contacts (rather than just one-time request recipients).

Built With

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Created by

I worked on the backend using node.js. I used the Interac API to develop functions for requesting money and creating contacts and helped connect it to Amazon AWS Alexa.

Hamza Yousaf
I used node.js to connect the Interac API to AWS Alexa so e-transfers could be requested from Alexa in the form of SMS.

ShahmirAlee
I developed the Action for Google Assistant, including various intents and fulfillments for different Interac e-Transfer actions.

Jamal Khan

Updates

Jamal Khan started this project — Jan 21, 2018 01:10 AM EST

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