The most simple method allows you to get all bank accounts that your user has access to:

.. autoclass:: fints.client.FinTS3Client
   :noindex:
   :members: get_sepa_accounts

This method will return a list of named tuples of the following type:

.. autoclass:: fints.models.SEPAAccount

You will need this account object for many further operations to show which account you want to operate on.

During the first interaction with the bank some meta information about the bank and your user is transmitted from the bank.

.. autoclass:: fints.client.FinTS3Client
   :members: get_information
   :noindex:

You can fetch the current balance of an account with the get_balance operation.

.. autoclass:: fints.client.FinTS3Client
  :members: get_balance
  :noindex:

This method will return a list of Balance objects from the mt-940 library. You can find more information in their documentation.

You can fetch the banking statement of an account within a certain timeframe with the get_transactions operation.

.. autoclass:: fints.client.FinTS3Client
   :members: get_transactions, get_transactions_xml
   :noindex:

This method will return a list of Transaction objects from the mt-940 library. You can find more information in their documentation.

You can fetch the holdings of an account with the get_holdings method:

.. autoclass:: fints.client.FinTS3Client
   :members: get_holdings
   :noindex:

This method will return a list of Holding objects:

.. autoclass:: fints.models.Holding