Electrum Regulated Payments Events API (17.1.0)

The Electrum Regulated Payments Events API is a synchronous API that describes the events emitted by the Electrum Regulated Payments platform during the course of transaction processing.

This document describes the single endpoint that you will need to implement in order to receive event notifications posted by Electrum.

As transactions are processed by Electrum, events are emitted to provide information about the status of the transactions and the operations preformed on them. These events do not affect processing, but provide information that can be used for operational support and monitoring purposes.

All events are posted to the same single URL. Event are differentiated by a unique descriptor contained in the name field of the message body. This descriptor serves to allow the receiver to determine whether the particular event is of interest.

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

https://electrum.co.za

Electrum Support

support@electrum.co.za

License

proprietary

Languages
Servers
Mock server

https://docs.electrumsoftware.com/_mock/openapi/elpapi/elpapi-events/

Payments API sandbox

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

state

Transactions transition through different states. As each state is entered, an event is emitted. This event provides information about the state entered by the transaction. Included in this information is the message payload of the operation that triggered the state transition in the Electrum Regulated Payments. Note: The message payload attached to an event might be an internally-triggered message and not the message sent to or received from the Electrum Regulated Payments API.

Operations

Schema

ShortenedAccountNumber

An account number, shortened to 11 characters according to the account number reduction rules in the EFT technical standards. This field is intended for internal use by Electrum and generally should not be populated by partner implementations.

string(ShortenedAccountNumber)= 11 characters

An account number, shortened to 11 characters according to the account number reduction rules in the EFT technical standards. This field is intended for internal use by Electrum and generally should not be populated by partner implementations.

"stringstrin"

ZaEftSchemeData

shortenedCreditorAccountNumberstring(ShortenedAccountNumber)= 11 characters

An account number, shortened to 11 characters according to the account number reduction rules in the EFT technical standards. This field is intended for internal use by Electrum and generally should not be populated by partner implementations.

shortenedDebtorAccountNumberstring(ShortenedAccountNumber)= 11 characters

An account number, shortened to 11 characters according to the account number reduction rules in the EFT technical standards. This field is intended for internal use by Electrum and generally should not be populated by partner implementations.

userReferencestring<= 30 charactersrequired

An explanation of an EFT transaction, which will be printed on the debtor's statement for direct debits or the creditor's statement for credit transfers. Note that when populating a value for a direct debit, the first 10 characters must contain the Banks user code as configured at Bankserv. If configured, Electrum will populate this value automatically, in which case at most 20 characters should be used as a reference to avoid truncation.

{
  "shortenedCreditorAccountNumber": "stringstrin",
  "shortenedDebtorAccountNumber": "stringstrin",
  "userReference": "string"
}

ZaEftCreditTransferPaymentScheme

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.
  • CBPR_PLUS: Cross-Border Payments and Reporting Plus.
Enum"ZA_RTC""ZA_RPP""ZA_EFT""CBPR_PLUS"
schemeDataobject(ZaEftSchemeData)required
schemeData.​shortenedCreditorAccountNumberstring(ShortenedAccountNumber)= 11 characters

An account number, shortened to 11 characters according to the account number reduction rules in the EFT technical standards. This field is intended for internal use by Electrum and generally should not be populated by partner implementations.

schemeData.​shortenedDebtorAccountNumberstring(ShortenedAccountNumber)= 11 characters

An account number, shortened to 11 characters according to the account number reduction rules in the EFT technical standards. This field is intended for internal use by Electrum and generally should not be populated by partner implementations.

schemeData.​userReferencestring<= 30 charactersrequired

An explanation of an EFT transaction, which will be printed on the debtor's statement for direct debits or the creditor's statement for credit transfers. Note that when populating a value for a direct debit, the first 10 characters must contain the Banks user code as configured at Bankserv. If configured, Electrum will populate this value automatically, in which case at most 20 characters should be used as a reference to avoid truncation.

{
  "schema": "ZA_RTC",
  "schemeData": {
    "shortenedCreditorAccountNumber": "stringstrin",
    "shortenedDebtorAccountNumber": "stringstrin",
    "userReference": "string"
  }
}
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