Note: This article is relevant to merchants integrating with Zepto in Australia.
A unique feature of Zepto is the use of Open Banking technology to deliver a more effective direct debit. Open Banking technology is used by many companies in financial services, and to provide seamless integration for these companies we have built connectors to some of the leading Open Banking data aggregators.
The following high-level integration scope supports the below use cases:
Customer origination utilises either Basiq or Illion's Open Data Solutions (ODS) to establish a connection to the customer’s bank account.
Recurring payment schedules
Variable one-off payments to the same customer
Variable recurring payments to the same customer
Sample businesses: lending platforms, collections, invoice financing, payment plan providers, b2b marketplaces, round-up apps.
Direct debit using Zepto is a 2 step process:
Create an Agreement utilising the active connection to their bank account, effectively 'on-boarding' them into Zepto.
Issue Payment Requests as per the customer payment schedule.
1. Step 1: KYC-Trusted Agreements
Our KYC-Trusted endpoints are available to merchants that have an existing integration with either Basiq or Illion ODS. A merchant is able to securely share the tokenised connection to their customer's bank account with Zepto. This enables an ongoing connection to the customer's bank account powering our Open Banking capabilities.
Captures BSB and Account number with 100% data accuracy
Establishes an ongoing bank connection with the customer enabling available funds pre-check
Creates an Agreement and Contact within Zepto that your application can submit Payment Requests to
Documentation:
Optional: Add the limits to the agreement that will mirror the repayment schedule the customer has agreed to, such as, max and min amounts for a single debit, as well as the total amount that can be debited over time.Leaving the limits blank puts no restrictions on Payment Request amounts.
2. Step 2: Payment Requests
Direct Debits are created through our Payment Requests. Create a new Payment Request each time you want to Direct Debit your customer.
If you need to Direct Debit your customer on a recurring basis, you will need to create a scheduler within your application that creates a Payment Request via our API each time a payment is due.
You can submit Payment Requests in real-time and up until the 19:05 pm cut off time for same-day processing. You can also submit Payment Requests prior to the due date by setting the ‘maturation date’ to reflect when you would like the payment to be processed.
Available balance checks: These are is all performed by our system and the status of the transaction will be delivered to you via webhooks. In the event that a customer has insufficient funds, you will receive a status of Prefail. The Payment Request will remain in the Prefail state until either voided or retried.
Developer Pro-trips: For more information on our available funds pre-check and how to manage pre-fails please see the following article:
Support
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