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.

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elpapi-redoc.json
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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

AccountAdditionalIdUpdateRequest

A model containing the foundational elements shared across messages and generally expected in a message used during processing with the Electrum Regulated Payments API.

messageIdentifiersobject(MessageIdentifiers)required

Holds a point-to-point unique message identification string as well as a message's creation date time.

messageIdentifiers.​creationDateTimestring(date-time)required

The date and time at which the message was created, in senders local timezone or UTC. The date must be formatted as defined by date-time in RFC3339

messageIdentifiers.​messageIdentificationstring<= 35 charactersrequired

A reference used to unambiguously identify the message between the sending and receiving party. Take note that this uniquely identifies a single message in a potentially multi-message exchange to complete a payment.

supplementaryDataobject(SupplementaryData)

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

additionalIdentificationobject(AccountIdentification)required

Holds details pertaining to an identifier of an account or store of value.

additionalIdentification.​accountKnownAsstring<= 40 characters

A name or label of the account.

additionalIdentification.​identifierobject(AccountIdentifier)required
additionalIdentification.​identifier.​namespacestring[ 1 .. 40 ] characters

An identifier's namespace provides a context for the identifier to distinguish different identifiers which may have the same value but be intended to identify different accounts. For example, a bank may use the same MSISDN (identifier) with different namespaces to distinguish between a customer's cheque or savings accounts.

This may be used by the following schemes:

  • ZA_RPP
additionalIdentification.​identifier.​schemastringrequired

Indicates the schema of the identifier, e.g. MOBILE, CUSTOM.

Discriminator
additionalIdentification.​identifier.​valuestring[ 1 .. 2048 ] charactersrequired
additionalIdentification.​registeredSchemesArray of strings(PaymentSchemeName)

The list of schemes with which the identifier is registered.

Items Enum"ZA_RTC""ZA_RPP""ZA_EFT""ZA_AC""ZA_RMS""CBPR_PLUS"
currentIdentificationobject(AccountIdentification)required

Holds details pertaining to an identifier of an account or store of value.

currentIdentification.​accountKnownAsstring<= 40 characters

A name or label of the account.

currentIdentification.​identifierobject(AccountIdentifier)required
currentIdentification.​identifier.​namespacestring[ 1 .. 40 ] characters

An identifier's namespace provides a context for the identifier to distinguish different identifiers which may have the same value but be intended to identify different accounts. For example, a bank may use the same MSISDN (identifier) with different namespaces to distinguish between a customer's cheque or savings accounts.

This may be used by the following schemes:

  • ZA_RPP
currentIdentification.​identifier.​schemastringrequired

Indicates the schema of the identifier, e.g. MOBILE, CUSTOM.

Discriminator
currentIdentification.​identifier.​valuestring[ 1 .. 2048 ] charactersrequired
currentIdentification.​registeredSchemesArray of strings(PaymentSchemeName)

The list of schemes with which the identifier is registered.

Items Enum"ZA_RTC""ZA_RPP""ZA_EFT""ZA_AC""ZA_RMS""CBPR_PLUS"
schemastringrequired
Value"AccountAdditionalIdUpdateRequest"
{
  "messageIdentifiers": {
    "creationDateTime": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
    "messageIdentification": "string"
  },
  "supplementaryData": {
    "property1": "string",
    "property2": "string"
  },
  "additionalIdentification": {
    "accountKnownAs": "string",
    "identifier": { … },
    "registeredSchemes": [ … ]
  },
  "currentIdentification": {
    "accountKnownAs": "string",
    "identifier": { … },
    "registeredSchemes": [ … ]
  },
  "schema": "AccountAdditionalIdUpdateRequest"
}

SchemeRegistration

schemastring(PaymentSchemeName)required

Identifies the scheme used for the payment

  • ZA_RTC: South African Realtime Clearing scheme.
  • ZA_RPP: South African Realtime Payments Platform scheme.
  • ZA_EFT: South African Electronic Funds Transfer scheme.
  • ZA_AC : South African Authenticated Collections scheme.
  • ZA_RMS: South African Registered Mandate Service scheme.
  • CBPR_PLUS: Cross-Border Payments and Reporting Plus.
Enum"ZA_RTC""ZA_RPP""ZA_EFT""ZA_AC""ZA_RMS""CBPR_PLUS"
Discriminator
identifierobject(NonBankingIdentifier)
participantobject(InstitutionIdentification)
{
  "schema": "ZA_RPP",
  "identifier": {
    "namespace": "string",
    "schema": "string"
  },
  "participant": {
    "additionalIdentifications": [ … ],
    "address": { … },
    "bicfi": "string",
    "branch": { … },
    "clearingSystemMemberId": { … },
    "companyRegistration": "string",
    "lei": "string",
    "memberId": "string",
    "name": "string"
  }
}

ZaRppProxyIdentifierSchemeRegistration

schemastring(PaymentSchemeName)required

Identifies the scheme used for the payment

  • ZA_RTC: South African Realtime Clearing scheme.
  • ZA_RPP: South African Realtime Payments Platform scheme.
  • ZA_EFT: South African Electronic Funds Transfer scheme.
  • ZA_AC : South African Authenticated Collections scheme.
  • ZA_RMS: South African Registered Mandate Service scheme.
  • CBPR_PLUS: Cross-Border Payments and Reporting Plus.
Enum"ZA_RTC""ZA_RPP""ZA_EFT""ZA_AC""ZA_RMS""CBPR_PLUS"
Discriminator
identifierobject(NonBankingIdentifier)
participantobject(InstitutionIdentification)
{
  "schema": "ZA_RPP",
  "identifier": {
    "namespace": "string",
    "schema": "string"
  },
  "participant": {
    "additionalIdentifications": [ … ],
    "address": { … },
    "bicfi": "string",
    "branch": { … },
    "clearingSystemMemberId": { … },
    "companyRegistration": "string",
    "lei": "string",
    "memberId": "string",
    "name": "string"
  }
}

operational

Operations

bulk

Operations

accounts

Operations

account-verification

Operations
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