{"article":{"id":40390089063319,"url":"https://plaid.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/40390089063319.json","html_url":"https://support.plaid.com/hc/en-us/articles/40390089063319-Do-we-need-to-be-using-Plaid-IDV-to-use-Monitor","author_id":1511728400882,"comments_disabled":false,"draft":false,"promoted":false,"position":0,"vote_sum":0,"vote_count":0,"section_id":40390056418455,"created_at":"2026-05-11T18:00:55Z","updated_at":"2026-05-31T19:17:52Z","name":"Do we need to be using Plaid IDV to use Monitor?","title":"Do we need to be using Plaid IDV to use Monitor?","source_locale":"en-us","locale":"en-us","outdated":false,"outdated_locales":[],"edited_at":"2026-05-31T19:17:52Z","user_segment_id":null,"permission_group_id":1121794,"content_tag_ids":[],"label_names":[],"body":"<p>No — Monitor can be leveraged as a standalone API, but many customers leverage it with Plaid IDV.</p>\n<p>It integrates natively with Plaid IDV, allowing you to screen customers automatically at the close of your KYC onboarding workflow.</p>\n<p>If you're already on IDV, enabling Monitor is a configuration change, not a new integration. To turn Monitor on within Plaid IDV you simply have to check a box in the Plaid IDV Editor.</p>","user_segment_ids":[]}}