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

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

Retrieve information about an outbound bulk credit transfer initiation

Request

This operation is asynchronous. It is responded to by the [outboundBulkCreditTransferResponse operation] (https://docs.electrumsoftware.com/openapi/elpapi-cicd/elpapi-partner-redoc/bulk/outboundbulkcredittransferresponse).

A query for information about a previously submitted outbound bulk credit transfer initiation. This operation may be called at any time by the partner in order to query the state of the outbound request. If acknowledged by the server, the current status of the 'bulk' will be communicated to the partner via the outboundBulkCreditTransferResponse operation of the Partner API.

Scheme	Applicable
ZA_EFT	✗
ZA_RPP	✓
ZA_RTC	✓
CBPR+	✗

Headers

traceparentstring(traceparent)^[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}\-[A-Fa-f0-9]{32}\-[A-Fa-f0-9]...

A value used to trace an HTTP message within an Electrum Regulated Payments implementation. This field must be set as per the traceparent element defined in the W3C Trace Context Level 2 specification.

tracestatestring(tracestate)^[A-Za-z0-9=, _\*/@]{0,1024}$

A value used to provide context to an HTTP message as it is traced within an Electrum Regulated Payments implementation. This field must be set as per the traceparent element defined in the W3C Trace Context Level 2 specification.

Bodyapplication/jsonrequired

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.

includeIndividualCreditsStatusesboolean

A flag to indicate if the status of each individual credit transfer, as per Electrum's view, should be reflected in the response

originalMessageIdentifiersobject(MessageIdentifiers)required

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

originalMessageIdentifiers.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

originalMessageIdentifiers.messageIdentificationstring<= 35 charactersrequired

paymentInformationIdstring(UUID)required

Universally unique identifier to provide an end-to-end reference to the bulk initiation. This identifier remains the same for all messages related to the bulk transaction. Note: this is distinct from the UETR's of the individual transactions.

schemastringrequired

Value"CreditTransferInitiationStatusRequest"

curl -i -X POST \
  https://example.com/path/payments/api/v1/transactions/outbound/bulk/credit-transfer/status-request \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'traceparent: string' \
  -H 'tracestate: string' \
  -d '{
    "schema": "CreditTransferInitiationStatusRequest",
    "messageIdentifiers": {
      "creationDateTime": "2024-05-04T03:03:01Z",
      "messageIdentification": "messageId"
    },
    "originalMessageIdentifiers": {
      "creationDateTime": "2024-05-04T03:02:01Z",
      "messageIdentification": "uniqueMessageId"
    },
    "paymentInformationId": "uniqueUUID",
    "includeIndividualCreditsStatuses": false
  }'

Responses

Accepted. RFC9110 - 202

Response

No content

Respond to an inbound customer credit transfer request

Request

This operation is asynchronous. It starts with the inboundCreditTransfer operation.

Invoked when a response to a FI-to-FI-customer credit transfer is available. The response will indicate the success or failure of the inbound credit transfer.

Scheme	Applicable
ZA_EFT	✓
ZA_RPP	✗
ZA_RTC	✗
CBPR+	✗

Headers

traceparentstring(traceparent)^[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}\-[A-Fa-f0-9]{32}\-[A-Fa-f0-9]...

tracestatestring(tracestate)^[A-Za-z0-9=, _\*/@]{0,1024}$

Bodyapplication/jsonrequired

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

supplementaryDataobject(SupplementaryData)

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

originalMessageIdentifiersobject(MessageIdentifiers)required

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

originalMessageIdentifiers.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

originalMessageIdentifiers.messageIdentificationstring<= 35 charactersrequired

transactionIdentifiersobject(TransactionIdentifiers)required

Holds a series of identifiers to identify the transaction or an individual message that is part of a transaction.

transactionIdentifiers.endToEndIdentificationstring<= 35 charactersrequired

Unique identification, as assigned by the initiating party, to unambiguously identify the transaction. This identification is passed on, unchanged, throughout the entire end-to-end chain. Note: this is distinct from the UETR.

transactionIdentifiers.instructionIdentificationstring<= 35 characters

Unique identification, as assigned by an instructing party for an instructed party, to unambiguously identify the instruction. The instruction identification is a point to point reference that can be used between the instructing party and the instructed party to refer to the individual instruction. It can be included in several messages related to the instruction.

transactionIdentifiers.transactionIdentificationstring<= 35 characters

Unique identification, as assigned by the first instructing agent, to unambiguously identify the transaction that is passed on, unchanged, throughout the entire interbank chain. Usage: The transaction identification can be used for reconciliation, tracking or to link tasks relating to the transaction on the interbank level. Usage: The instructing agent has to make sure that the transaction identification is unique for a pre-agreed period.

transactionIdentifiers.uetrstring(UUID)required

Universally unique identifier to provide an end-to-end reference of a payment transaction. This identifier remains the same for all messages related to the same transaction.

instructedAgentobject(InstitutionIdentification)

instructingAgentobject(InstitutionIdentification)

statusobject(Status)required

status.outcomestringrequired

APPROVED: The instruction has been approved.
CANCELLED: The instruction has been cancelled.
PENDING: The instruction is pending.
REJECTED: The instruction has been rejected.

Enum"APPROVED""CANCELLED""PENDING""REJECTED"

status.reasonInfoArray of objects(StatusReasonInfo)non-empty

A list of StatusReasonInfo values providing detailed reason information for the outcome.

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).

originalTransactionDataobject(OriginalTransactionData)

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

paymentSchemeobject(PaymentStatusReportPaymentScheme)required

Designates which scheme a payment status report is associated with and describes scheme-specific information for the payment status report.

paymentScheme.schemastringrequired

Discriminator

schemastringrequired

Value"PaymentStatusReport"

curl -i -X POST \
  https://example.com/path/payments/api/v1/transactions/inbound/credit-transfer-response \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'traceparent: string' \
  -H 'tracestate: string' \
  -d '{
    "schema": "PaymentStatusReport",
    "messageIdentifiers": {
      "messageIdentification": "9fd51c1234ba4819bbheyde296a68e1da",
      "creationDateTime": "2022-05-04T03:22:11Z"
    },
    "originalMessageIdentifiers": {
      "messageIdentification": "8fd51c7124ba4819b9253e296a68e1da",
      "creationDateTime": "2022-05-04T03:02:01Z"
    },
    "paymentScheme": {
      "schema": "ZA_EFT",
      "originalSchemeData": {
        "userReference": "Ab1 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "userCode": 1234
      }
    },
    "transactionIdentifiers": {
      "endToEndIdentification": "6249118655591098",
      "transactionIdentification": "RRN000000001",
      "uetr": "f27a34ad-c5ab-4b70-a3f9-946d743eaeaa"
    },
    "status": {
      "outcome": "APPROVED",
      "reasonInfo": [
        {
          "reason": {
            "schema": "CODE",
            "value": "ACSC"
          },
          "additionalInformation": "Settlement completed on debtor account"
        }
      ]
    },
    "instructingAgent": {
      "bicfi": "RY8PEG0L",
      "memberId": "AmazingBankId",
      "name": "Amazing Bank Inc",
      "branch": {
        "identification": 210514,
        "name": "ABC Plettenberg Bay",
        "address": {
          "addressType": "ADDR",
          "department": "Department of Mysteries",
          "streetName": "Street of Mysteries",
          "buildingNumber": 42,
          "buildingName": "Mysterious Building",
          "floor": 42,
          "postBox": 1024,
          "postCode": 4242,
          "townName": "Mysty Town",
          "townLocationName": "Mysty Location",
          "districtName": "Mysty District",
          "countrySubDivision": "Mysterious Cape",
          "country": "ZA",
          "addressLine": [
            "16A",
            "New market street",
            "Foreshore",
            "Cape Town",
            "ZA",
            8001
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "instructedAgent": {
      "bicfi": "RY8PEG0L",
      "memberId": "AmazingBankId",
      "name": "Amazing Bank Inc",
      "branch": {
        "identification": 210514,
        "name": "ABC Plettenberg Bay",
        "address": {
          "addressType": "ADDR",
          "department": "Department of Mysteries",
          "streetName": "Street of Mysteries",
          "buildingNumber": 42,
          "buildingName": "Mysterious Building",
          "floor": 42,
          "postBox": 1024,
          "postCode": 4242,
          "townName": "Mysty Town",
          "townLocationName": "Mysty Location",
          "districtName": "Mysty District",
          "countrySubDivision": "Mysterious Cape",
          "country": "ZA",
          "addressLine": [
            "16A",
            "New market street",
            "Foreshore",
            "Cape Town",
            "ZA",
            8001
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "originalTransactionData": {
      "paymentMethod": "CreditTransfer",
      "creditor": {
        "address": {
          "addressType": "ADDR",
          "department": "Department of Mysteries",
          "streetName": "Street of Mysteries",
          "buildingNumber": "42",
          "buildingName": "Mysterious Building",
          "floor": "42",
          "postBox": "1024",
          "postCode": "4242",
          "townName": "Mysty Town",
          "townLocationName": "Mysty Location",
          "districtName": "Mysty District",
          "countrySubDivision": "Mysterious Cape",
          "country": "ZA",
          "addressLine": [
            "16A",
            "New market street",
            "Foreshore",
            "Cape Town",
            "ZA",
            "8001"
          ]
        },
        "contactDetails": {
          "phoneNumber": "+27-0214620000",
          "mobileNumber": "+27-08230000000",
          "emailAddress": "developer.dave@electrum.com"
        },
        "countryOfResidence": "ZA",
        "identification": {
          "schema": "PERSON",
          "identifiers": [
            {
              "identification": "90001236549870",
              "scheme": {
                "schema": "CODE",
                "value": "NIDN"
              },
              "issuer": "Dept of Home Affairs"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "creditorAccount": {
        "identification": {
          "schema": "GENERIC",
          "scheme": {
            "schema": "PROPRIETARY",
            "value": "AProprietaryCode123"
          },
          "issuer": "Amazing Bank",
          "value": "abcdef987654"
        },
        "type": {
          "schema": "CODE",
          "value": "CACC"
        }
      },
      "creditorAgent": {
        "bicfi": "RY8PEG0L",
        "memberId": "AmazingBankId",
        "name": "Amazing Bank Inc",
        "branch": {
          "identification": 210514,
          "name": "ABC Plettenberg Bay",
          "address": {
            "addressType": "ADDR",
            "department": "Department of Mysteries",
            "streetName": "Street of Mysteries",
            "buildingNumber": 42,
            "buildingName": "Mysterious Building",
            "floor": 42,
            "postBox": 1024,
            "postCode": 4242,
            "townName": "Mysty Town",
            "townLocationName": "Mysty Location",
            "districtName": "Mysty District",
            "countrySubDivision": "Mysterious Cape",
            "country": "ZA",
            "addressLine": [
              "16A",
              "New market street",
              "Foreshore",
              "Cape Town",
              "ZA",
              8001
            ]
          }
        }
      },
      "creditorAgentAccount": {
        "identification": {
          "schema": "GENERIC",
          "scheme": {
            "schema": "PROPRIETARY",
            "value": "AProprietaryCode456"
          },
          "issuer": "Amazing Bank",
          "value": 541239876
        },
        "type": {
          "schema": "CODE",
          "value": "CACC"
        }
      },
      "amounts": {
        "bankSettlementAmount": {
          "value": 1,
          "currency": "ZAR"
        },
        "instructedAmount": {
          "value": 1,
          "currency": "ZAR"
        }
      },
      "remittanceInformation": {
        "unstructured": [
          "some",
          "unstructured",
          "information"
        ],
        "structured": [
          {
            "referredDocuments": [
              {
                "type": {
                  "issuer": "AmazeBank123456",
                  "schema": "CODE",
                  "value": "CINV"
                },
                "documentIdentifier": "A0123456789"
              }
            ],
            "referredDocumentAmount": {
              "duePayableAmount": {
                "value": 1,
                "currency": "ZAR"
              },
              "remittedAmount": {
                "value": 1,
                "currency": "ZAR"
              }
            },
            "creditorReference": {
              "type": {
                "issuer": "AnotherAmazeBank1234",
                "schema": "CODE",
                "value": "RADM"
              },
              "reference": "ABC123XYZ999"
            },
            "additionalRemittanceInformation": [
              "Some",
              "Additional",
              "Information"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      "debtor": {
        "address": {
          "addressType": "ADDR",
          "department": "Department of Mysteries",
          "streetName": "Street of Mysteries",
          "buildingNumber": "42",
          "buildingName": "Mysterious Building",
          "floor": "42",
          "postBox": "1024",
          "postCode": "4242",
          "townName": "Mysty Town",
          "townLocationName": "Mysty Location",
          "districtName": "Mysty District",
          "countrySubDivision": "Mysterious Cape",
          "country": "ZA",
          "addressLine": [
            "16A",
            "New market street",
            "Foreshore",
            "Cape Town",
            "ZA",
            "8001"
          ]
        },
        "contactDetails": {
          "phoneNumber": "+27-0214620000",
          "mobileNumber": "+27-08230000000",
          "emailAddress": "developer.dave@electrum.com"
        },
        "countryOfResidence": "ZA",
        "identification": {
          "schema": "PERSON",
          "identifiers": [
            {
              "identification": "90001236549870",
              "scheme": {
                "schema": "CODE",
                "value": "NIDN"
              },
              "issuer": "Dept of Home Affairs"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "debtorAccount": {
        "identification": {
          "schema": "GENERIC",
          "scheme": {
            "schema": "PROPRIETARY",
            "value": "AProprietaryCode123"
          },
          "issuer": "Amazing Bank",
          "value": "abcdef987654"
        },
        "type": {
          "schema": "CODE",
          "value": "CACC"
        }
      },
      "debtorAgent": {
        "bicfi": "RY8PEG0L",
        "memberId": "AmazingBankId",
        "name": "Amazing Bank Inc",
        "branch": {
          "identification": 210514,
          "name": "ABC Plettenberg Bay",
          "address": {
            "addressType": "ADDR",
            "department": "Department of Mysteries",
            "streetName": "Street of Mysteries",
            "buildingNumber": 42,
            "buildingName": "Mysterious Building",
            "floor": 42,
            "postBox": 1024,
            "postCode": 4242,
            "townName": "Mysty Town",
            "townLocationName": "Mysty Location",
            "districtName": "Mysty District",
            "countrySubDivision": "Mysterious Cape",
            "country": "ZA",
            "addressLine": [
              "16A",
              "New market street",
              "Foreshore",
              "Cape Town",
              "ZA",
              8001
            ]
          }
        }
      },
      "debtorAgentAccount": {
        "identification": {
          "schema": "GENERIC",
          "scheme": {
            "schema": "PROPRIETARY",
            "value": "AProprietaryCode123"
          },
          "issuer": "Amazing Bank",
          "value": 609812345
        },
        "type": {
          "schema": "CODE",
          "value": "CACC"
        }
      },
      "initiatingParty": {
        "address": {
          "addressType": "ADDR",
          "department": "Department of Mysteries",
          "streetName": "Street of Mysteries",
          "buildingNumber": "42",
          "buildingName": "Mysterious Building",
          "floor": "42",
          "postBox": "1024",
          "postCode": "4242",
          "townName": "Mysty Town",
          "townLocationName": "Mysty Location",
          "districtName": "Mysty District",
          "countrySubDivision": "Mysterious Cape",
          "country": "ZA",
          "addressLine": [
            "16A",
            "New market street",
            "Foreshore",
            "Cape Town",
            "ZA",
            "8001"
          ]
        },
        "contactDetails": {
          "phoneNumber": "+27-0214620000",
          "mobileNumber": "+27-08230000000",
          "emailAddress": "developer.dave@electrum.com"
        },
        "countryOfResidence": "ZA",
        "identification": {
          "schema": "PERSON",
          "identifiers": [
            {
              "identification": "90001236549870",
              "scheme": {
                "schema": "CODE",
                "value": "NIDN"
              },
              "issuer": "Dept of Home Affairs"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "purpose": {
        "schema": "CODE",
        "value": "ACCT"
      },
      "supplementaryData": {
        "customData1": "My custom data 1",
        "customData2": "My custom data 2"
      },
      "paymentTypeInformation": {
        "localInstrument": {
          "schema": "CODE",
          "value": "BTR"
        }
      }
    }
  }'

Responses

Accepted. RFC9110 - 202

Response

No content

Respond to an inbound customer credit transfer authorisation request

Request

This operation is asynchronous. It starts with the inboundCreditTransferAuthorisation operation.

This operation is called by partners to provide a response approving or declining an inbound FI-to-FI-customer credit transfer authorisation request that Electrum made earlier. For declined authorisations, no further action is taken. For approved authorisations, Electrum will respond with a final callback indicating the successful completion of the credit transfer. For declined authorisations, no subsequent response is sent.

Scheme	Applicable
ZA_EFT	✗
ZA_RPP	✓
ZA_RTC	✓
CBPR+	✗