EPC API for calling Electrum (17.1.0)

The Electrum EPC API for calling Electrum is an asynchronous API that allows Corporate Clients 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.

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epc-elpapi-redoc.json

epc-elpapi-redoc.yaml

Overview

URL

https://electrum.co.za

Electrum Support

support@electrum.co.za

License

proprietary

Servers

Mock server

https://docs.electrumsoftware.com/_mock/openapi/epc-cicd/epc-elpapi-redoc/

Payments API sandbox

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

credit-transfer

Operations related to credit transfer transactions.

Operations

scheme-inquiry

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

Operations

request-to-pay

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

Operations

Schema

StructuredRemittanceInformation

additionalRemittanceInformationArray of strings<= 3 items

creditorReferenceobject(CreditorReference)

invoicerobject(Party)

This model is the basic representation of a Party. It is expanded on depending on whether the party is a person or an organisation.

originatorReferencestring<= 35 characters

An explanation of the transaction, this field may be used to capture the information which may then be displayed on the payment originator's bank statement (ie. the debtor for a credit transfer or the creditor for a direct debit). This field is not supported by all Electrum partner implementations, and will be ignored if provided in an unsupported use-case.

referredDocumentAmountobject(ReferredDocumentAmount)

referredDocumentsArray of objects(ReferredDocument)

taxRemittanceobject(TaxRemittance)

{
  "additionalRemittanceInformation": [
    "string"
  ],
  "creditorReference": {
    "reference": "string",
    "type": { … }
  },
  "invoicer": {
    "address": { … },
    "contactDetails": { … },
    "countryOfResidence": "string",
    "identification": { … },
    "knownAsName": "string",
    "legalName": "string"
  },
  "originatorReference": "string",
  "referredDocumentAmount": {
    "duePayableAmount": { … },
    "remittedAmount": { … }
  },
  "referredDocuments": [
    { … }
  ],
  "taxRemittance": {
    "creditor": { … },
    "date": "2019-08-24",
    "debtor": { … },
    "referenceNumber": "string",
    "sequenceNumber": 0,
    "totalTaxAmount": { … },
    "totalTaxableBaseAmount": { … },
    "ultimateDebtor": { … }
  }
}

RemittanceInformation

structuredArray of objects(StructuredRemittanceInformation)

unstructuredArray of strings

{
  "structured": [
    { … }
  ],
  "unstructured": [
    "string"
  ]
}

BaseOriginalTransactionData

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)

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)

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)

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.

{
  "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"
  },
  "debtorAccount": {
    "currency": "string",
    "identification": { … },
    "name": "string",
    "proxy": { … },
    "type": { … }
  },
  "debtorAgent": {
    "additionalIdentifications": [ … ],
    "address": { … },
    "bicfi": "string",
    "branch": { … },
    "clearingSystemMemberId": { … },
    "companyRegistration": "string",
    "lei": "string",
    "memberId": "string",
    "name": "string"
  },
  "paymentMethod": "CreditTransfer",
  "paymentTypeInformation": {
    "categoryPurpose": { … },
    "localInstrument": { … },
    "serviceLevel": [ … ]
  },
  "remittanceInformation": {
    "structured": [ … ],
    "unstructured": [ … ]
  },
  "settlementDate": "2019-08-24",
  "supplementaryData": {
    "property1": "string",
    "property2": "string"
  }
}

transactional

Operations

financial

Operations

identifier-determination

Operations

bulk

Operations

refund

Operations