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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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

ZaRtcCreditTransferPaymentSchemeData

businessReferencestring<= 10 characters^\d{2}[\dA-z]{8}$required

Business reference number. The first two numeric digits identify the bank and the last 8 characters contain a unique alphanumeric value generated by the originating bank (unique for the transaction).

originatorEchoDatastring<= 20 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

Echo data reserved for originator use. Must remain unaltered by the beneficiary.

userReferencestring<= 20 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

An explanation of the transaction, e.g. to be printed on the account holder's statement.

{ "businessReference": "string", "originatorEchoData": "string", "userReference": "string" }

ZaRtcPaymentStatusReportPaymentSchemeData

authorisationIdstring<= 6 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

A unique number assigned by the beneficiary bank to identify the transaction if it is approved. Must remain unaltered by the originator.

beneficiaryEchoDatastring<= 20 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

Echo data reserved for beneficiary use. Must remain unaltered by the originator.

{ "authorisationId": "string", "beneficiaryEchoData": "string" }

ZaRtcPaymentStatusReportPaymentScheme

originalSchemeDataobject(ZaRtcCreditTransferPaymentSchemeData)required
originalSchemeData.​businessReferencestring<= 10 characters^\d{2}[\dA-z]{8}$required

Business reference number. The first two numeric digits identify the bank and the last 8 characters contain a unique alphanumeric value generated by the originating bank (unique for the transaction).

originalSchemeData.​originatorEchoDatastring<= 20 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

Echo data reserved for originator use. Must remain unaltered by the beneficiary.

originalSchemeData.​userReferencestring<= 20 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

An explanation of the transaction, e.g. to be printed on the account holder's statement.

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(ZaRtcPaymentStatusReportPaymentSchemeData)required
schemeData.​authorisationIdstring<= 6 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

A unique number assigned by the beneficiary bank to identify the transaction if it is approved. Must remain unaltered by the originator.

schemeData.​beneficiaryEchoDatastring<= 20 characters^[\dA-z ]*$

Echo data reserved for beneficiary use. Must remain unaltered by the originator.

{ "originalSchemeData": { "businessReference": "string", "originatorEchoData": "string", "userReference": "string" }, "schema": "ZA_RTC", "schemeData": { "authorisationId": "string", "beneficiaryEchoData": "string" } }

transactional

Operations

financial

Operations

identifier-determination

Operations

bulk

Operations

refund

Operations