Business Payments

Read for API integration recommendations for business payment use case.

We consider all B2B and B2C transactions as business payments. Our business payments API include both transaction processing and delivery flow of business payments. Based on your requirements and agreement with Machnet, you may deliver the transactions yourself. Regardless, these are external transactions to external receivers (individuals or businesses) who may be residing in a country different from the sender.

Integration Recommendations

This section will guide you through the API endpoints for the business payment use case. Please note that these are recommendations for standard flow and can be customized as per your needs.

1. User Registration

The first step is to register the business user in our system. Make sure to indicate business: true when you register a user. Users can only be registered from the country which has been enabled for you as per your agreement with Machnet. Fields outlined as mandatory in the user object are required during registration.

2. User KYB and Transaction Limits

Upon registration, the user will have to provide basic information on the business and details of the business representative so that necessary KYB checks can be conducted. In order to run KYB on the sender, you will have to:

1. Know what KYB information is required for the sender

2. Collect and send the required user and business representative information to Machnet

3. Initiate verification process

User KYB is conducted using the following basic information.

• Name of company

• Type of company

• Date of formation of the company

• Registered address

• Mailing address

• Phone number

• Email address

• Nature of business

• No. of employees

• EIN Number

• EIN Document

Once you have submitted the information, you also can check what KYB information has been provided by a user and its verification status. Each piece of information required for KYB and tier verification is referred to as a CIP tag and each CIP tag has its own verification status. Only when all CIP tags required for KYB verification (listed above) are verified will the KYB status of the user be verified.

Additional information may be required based on the transaction amount and frequency. This information is outlined in your spec sheet and can also be obtained using this API. Based on the information, you can submit the additional information collected from the user using the Update user API or the Update business representative API. Each time new information is submitted, make sure to initiate verification on the user to ensure verification of all submitted information.

3. Add a Receive User

All transactions must have an associated receiver. For business payments, the receiver could be an individual or a business. To add a receiver, create a user with type "RECEIVE" and based on whether the receiver is an individual or business, you can set business as true or false.

The receive user's type (individual or business) and corridor of the transaction determines the required information of the receive user. These details are provided to you by the Machnet Team. You will have to collect all mandatory information and conditional information (if applicable), otherwise, the transaction may not be delivered to the receive user.

We only support payout to bank accounts for business payments. Hence, along with the receive user details, the receive user's account also has to be added. The available banks and their details can be obtained using the Banks API. All banks which support business payments will have txn_supported_types as B2B and/or B2C. Funds will be directly deposited into the indicated receive user's account.

4. Add Funding Account

Once the required transaction information has been collected, the user will then have to link a funding source for the transaction. We support bank accounts and debit cards. These are added using a widget to ensure security.

The sender can add a funding account and proceed to create a transaction as long as their KYB status is not UNVERIFIED and IN PROGRESS.

5. Additional information based on transaction

You may need to collect additional information for each transaction such as an invoice for business payment or the purpose of the transaction. The additional information required may be based on the transaction amount or transaction corridor. Your spec sheet will contain all the additional transactional information that need to be collected. These need to be submitted during transaction creation.

6. Submit transaction

You are now ready to create the transaction. Please note that only users with SEND capabilities can create transactions within the limits set in the CIP documents. The transaction limits available to a user are based on the submitted KYB information and their verification status.

All transactions above the user's permitted limits and below the maximum transaction limit is placed on HOLD with the reason T004 Transaction Limit Exceeded. In such cases, the user will need to provide additional information to increase their transaction limits. The verification status of those additional required fields (CIP tags) will be in REQUESTED status. Once this information is submitted, you will need to initiate KYC again for the user. If the submitted information is VERIFIED, the transaction will be forwarded for processing.

If the transaction amount exceeds the maximum transaction limit set for a user of a Client, the transaction will be CANCELED.

7. Transaction Delivery

Even though a transaction has been created, a transaction will not be forwarded for payout to the receive user unless you send a delivery request. You can choose to send a delivery request once the funds have been debited from the sender (transaction status: PROCESSED) to contain risks or beforehand to ensure faster payments.

If you are delivering the transaction using your own payout network and NOT using our network, you will need to update the delivery status on our system as well.