Electrum Regulated Payments API (21.0.2)

The Electrum Regulated Payments API is an asynchronous API that allows partners to participate in various nationally regulated payment schemes.

This document describes the operations exposed by Electrum for partners to consume in order to initiate outbound or respond to inbound payments.

As the Regulated Payments API is asynchronous, partners have a choice of how to integrate with Electrum:

  • Webhooks: Electrum will send events to the partner containing inbound payments to action, or responses to outbound payment requests. Webhooks are defined in this document.
  • Partner API: Electrum will call operations exposed by the partner containing inbound payments to action, or responses to outbound payment requests. The operations are defined in the Electrum Regulated Payments Partner API.

Receiving transactional events via webhooks or API are equivalent, except that it may be more familiar or convenient to implement one style or the other. Partners may request the method of communication Electrum should use when selecting which payment schemes to participate in.

Download OpenAPI description
elpapi-redoc.json
elpapi-redoc.yaml
Overview
URL

https://electrum.co.za

Electrum Support

support@electrum.co.za

License

proprietary

Languages
Servers
Payments API sandbox

https://example.com/path/payments/api/v1/

transactional

Operations that participate in transaction processing, which may or may not have financial impact.

Operations

financial

Operations that participate in transaction processing and have financial impact.

Operations

credit-transfer

Operations related to credit transfer transactions.

Operations

direct-debit

Operations related to direct debit transactions.

Operations

payment-return

Operations related to payment returns.

Operations

account-management

Operations that involve customer account information.

Operations

proxy

Operations that involve the management or processing of proxies

Operations

scheme-inquiry

Operations that are related to retrieving information from industry for a particular scheme.

Operations

identifier-determination

Operations used to retrieve additional information related to an identifier

Operations

identifier-verification

Operations used to verify information relating to an account identifier

Operations

request-to-pay

Operations which pertain to a request for payment from a creditor to a debtor

Operations

funds-management

Operations related to the management of funds, including reservations, postings, and voiding of reservations.

Operations

refund

Operations related to the refund of a prior successful financial transaction.

Operations

risk-assessment

Operations related to the assessment and identification of risk in transactions.

Operations

fraud-assessment

Operations related to the processing of fraud assessments for payment transactions.

Operations

Schema

MandateSetupReason

schemastringrequired

Identifies the value as being a pre-defined code. Always CODE.

Discriminator
valuestring[ 1 .. 4 ] charactersrequired
{
  "schema": "CODE",
  "value": "stri"
}

MandateInformation

Provides details of the direct debit mandate signed between the creditor and the debtor.

NOTE: This model is a work in progress and may change. In particular, it lacks properties relating to mandate amendments which we may need in the future. Note also that this model is not relevant to the ZA_EFT scheme, and therefore Electrum will not do any special processing for these fields for EFT (e.g. Electrum cannot honour tracking days for EFT payments).

dateOfSignaturestring(date)

Date on which the direct debit mandate has been signed by the debtor.

electronicSignaturestring<= 1025 characters

A digital signature provided by the debtor.

finalCollectionDatestring(date)

Date of the final collection of a direct debit as per the mandate.

firstCollectionDatestring(date)

Date of the first collection of a direct debit as per the mandate.

frequencyobject(Frequency)

Specifies the frequency of the payment transaction.

mandateIdentificationstring<= 35 characters

Unique identification, as assigned by the creditor, to unambiguously identify the mandate.

reasonobject(MandateSetupReason)
trackingDaysinteger[ 1 .. 99 ]

Specifies the number of days the direct debit instruction must be tracked.

{
  "dateOfSignature": "2019-08-24",
  "electronicSignature": "string",
  "finalCollectionDate": "2019-08-24",
  "firstCollectionDate": "2019-08-24",
  "frequency": {
    "dayOfMonth": 1,
    "schema": "MonthlyFrequency"
  },
  "mandateIdentification": "string",
  "reason": {
    "schema": "string",
    "value": "stri"
  },
  "trackingDays": 1
}

OriginalTransactionReference

Contains key elements related to the original transaction that is being referred to.

amountsobject(TransactionAmounts)
creditorAccountobject(PaymentAccount)

Representation of an account for payment purposes. Note that at least one of identification or proxy is expected to be present.

creditorAgentobject(InstitutionIdentification)
creditorAgentAccountobject(PaymentAccount)

Representation of an account for payment purposes. Note that at least one of identification or proxy is expected to be present.

debtorAccountobject(PaymentAccount)

Representation of an account for payment purposes. Note that at least one of identification or proxy is expected to be present.

debtorAgentobject(InstitutionIdentification)
debtorAgentAccountobject(PaymentAccount)

Representation of an account for payment purposes. Note that at least one of identification or proxy is expected to be present.

paymentMethodstring(PaymentMethod)
  • CreditTransfer - Transfer of an amount of money in the books of the account servicer.
  • DirectDebit - Collection of an amount of money from the debtor's account by the creditor, the amount and date of collection may vary.
Enum"CreditTransfer""DirectDebit"
paymentTypeInformationobject(PaymentTypeInformation)
purposeobject(PurposeType)

Specifies the underlying reason for the payment transaction

remittanceInformationobject(RemittanceInformation)
settlementDatestring(date)

Date on which the amount of money ceases to be available to the agent that owes it and when the amount of money becomes available to the agent to which it is due.

supplementaryDataobject(SupplementaryData)

A list of key-value pairs to support adding any supplementary/additional data to an Electrum Regulated Payments API message.

creditorany(PartyInstitutionChoice)
debtorany(PartyInstitutionChoice)
mandateInformationobject(MandateInformation)

Provides details of the direct debit mandate signed between the creditor and the debtor.

NOTE: This model is a work in progress and may change. In particular, it lacks properties relating to mandate amendments which we may need in the future. Note also that this model is not relevant to the ZA_EFT scheme, and therefore Electrum will not do any special processing for these fields for EFT (e.g. Electrum cannot honour tracking days for EFT payments).

{
  "amounts": {
    "bankSettlementAmount": { … },
    "instructedAmount": { … }
  },
  "creditorAccount": {
    "currency": "string",
    "identification": { … },
    "name": "string",
    "proxy": { … },
    "type": { … }
  },
  "creditorAgent": {
    "additionalIdentifications": [ … ],
    "address": { … },
    "bicfi": "string",
    "branch": { … },
    "clearingSystemMemberId": { … },
    "companyRegistration": "string",
    "lei": "string",
    "memberId": "string",
    "name": "string"
  },
  "creditorAgentAccount": {
    "currency": "string",
    "identification": { … },
    "name": "string",
    "proxy": { … },
    "type": { … }
  },
  "debtorAccount": {
    "currency": "string",
    "identification": { … },
    "name": "string",
    "proxy": { … },
    "type": { … }
  },
  "debtorAgent": {
    "additionalIdentifications": [ … ],
    "address": { … },
    "bicfi": "string",
    "branch": { … },
    "clearingSystemMemberId": { … },
    "companyRegistration": "string",
    "lei": "string",
    "memberId": "string",
    "name": "string"
  },
  "debtorAgentAccount": {
    "currency": "string",
    "identification": { … },
    "name": "string",
    "proxy": { … },
    "type": { … }
  },
  "paymentMethod": "CreditTransfer",
  "paymentTypeInformation": {
    "categoryPurpose": { … },
    "localInstrument": { … },
    "serviceLevel": [ … ]
  },
  "purpose": {
    "schema": "string",
    "value": "BKDF"
  },
  "remittanceInformation": {
    "structured": [ … ],
    "unstructured": [ … ]
  },
  "settlementDate": "2019-08-24",
  "supplementaryData": {
    "property1": "string",
    "property2": "string"
  },
  "creditor": {
    "party": { … },
    "schema": "PARTY"
  },
  "debtor": {
    "party": { … },
    "schema": "PARTY"
  },
  "mandateInformation": {
    "dateOfSignature": "2019-08-24",
    "electronicSignature": "string",
    "finalCollectionDate": "2019-08-24",
    "firstCollectionDate": "2019-08-24",
    "frequency": { … },
    "mandateIdentification": "string",
    "reason": { … },
    "trackingDays": 1
  }
}

operational

Operations

bulk

Operations

accounts

Operations

account-verification

Operations
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