Core
Programmable ledger, card issuing, and payout primitives.
Core is the part of Mono that lets you build financial products on top of programmable primitives. Where Banking handles money in and out of Colombian bank accounts, Core handles what happens with the money once it is yours to manage: a double-entry ledger that tracks every cent, virtual and physical card issuing, spending controls, and payout disbursement.
Use Core to build wallets, marketplace seller balances, expense management products, neobanking experiences, and any other case that requires you to hold value, account for it, and let end users spend or move it.
Architecture
How Core's services fit together and how a request flows end-to-end.
Authentication
How to authenticate against the Core API.
Concepts
Ledger, cards, spending controls, payouts, and FX rates.
Flows
End-to-end use cases — issuing cards, ledger accounting, payouts.
Integration example
A realistic walkthrough of building a wallet on Core.
Webhooks
Events fired during card transactions and ledger movements.
Sandbox
Test Core without moving real money.
Best practices
Production recommendations: idempotency, reconciliation, key rotation.
Dashboard
Manage cards, ledger accounts, and payouts from the Mono Dashboard.
Go to production
Checklist before moving from sandbox to production.
Use Core to:
- Hold balances for end users in a programmable, auditable ledger.
- Issue virtual or physical cards and decide which transactions to authorize in real time.
- Set spending limits per card, per user, or per category.
- Disburse payouts to internal ledger accounts or external destinations.
- Reconcile every movement against an immutable record.
Primary use cases
| Use case | What you build | Core products you use |
|---|---|---|
| Consumer wallet | Account, top-ups, card, transfers between users | Ledger + Cards + Payouts |
| Marketplace seller balance | Per-seller ledger, scheduled payouts | Ledger + Payouts |
| Corporate cards / expense management | Per-employee cards with category limits | Cards + Spending Controls + Ledger |
| Treasury / multi-account neobank | Multi-currency accounts with FX | Ledger + FX Rates + Payouts |