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What is The Washington Post on your bank statement?

A charge appearing as The Washington Post on your credit card or bank statement is categorized by ParseTx as The Washington Post.

Merchant Details

The Washington Post is officially categorized under Digital Services (ISO MCC: 5968). Its verified domain is washingtonpost.com. This charge is typically a recurring subscription.

If you are building a fintech app and need to automatically clean up messy transaction descriptors like The Washington Post, ParseTx can resolve this for you in under 50ms.

ParseTx API Response

When you send this transaction to the ParseTx enrichment API, this is the structured JSON you receive back:

{
  "status": "complete",
  "source": "cache",
  "input": "The Washington Post",
  "merchant": "The Washington Post",
  "domain": "washingtonpost.com",
  "category": "Digital Services",
  "mcc_code": "5968",
  "is_subscription": true,
  "confidence": 1
}

Integration Examples

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.parsetx.com/v1/enrich \
  -H "X-API-Key: pt_live_yourkeyhere" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"transactions": ["The Washington Post"]}'

Node.js

import { ParseTxClient } from 'parsetx';

const client = new ParseTxClient('pt_live_yourkeyhere');
const response = await client.enrich(['The Washington Post']);
console.log(response.results[0].merchant); // "The Washington Post"

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