Automated Merchant Onboarding

Onboarding Process

If there is a limited number of merchants, they can be onboarded in a manual process. Otherwise the onboarding needs to be automated.

The automated merchant onboarding consists of three steps:

  1. You create a contract for your merchant. This initiates the onboarding process.

  2. We conduct the further steps of registration with the merchant until they become eligible to receive payments.

  3. We mark the contract active, and send a push notification to your system.

Optionally, you upload the registration documents of the merchant to save them double effort. The upload can be automated, or done in secuOffice.

The above steps are described in more detail at the next pages.

Create a Merchant Contract

The first step is to create a contract for the new merchant. This contract will be closed between the merchant and us to the conditions of your framework contract. It authorises the merchant to receive payments for sales at your marketplace.

This contract is derived from a master contract, using the endpoint POST /api/v2/Payment/Contracts/{id}/requestId. The master contract ID in our example has the ID GCR_33V83WAUVJ8QHC226N3N9KM8Y0DSOH:

Request
POST /api/v2/Payment/Contracts/GCR_33V83WAUVJ8QHC226N3N9KM8Y0DSOH/RequestId HTTP/1.1
Host: connect-testing.secupay-ag.de
Authorization: Bearer qb56tjj1bcvo9n2nj4u38k84lo
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
 
{
"contact": {
"salutation": "Mr.",
"title": "Dr.",
"forename": "Max",
"surname": "Mustermann",
"companyname": "Musterfirma GmbH",
"dob": "1981-02-03",
"email": "muster@example.com",
"phone": "+49 555 5555555",
"mobile": "+49 170 5555555",
"address": {
"street": "Musterstr.",
"street_number": "1a",
"postal_code": "09999",
"city": "Musterstadt",
"country": "DE"
}
},
"project": "Musterfirma GmbH",
"payout_account": {
"iban": "DE27100777770209299700",
"owner": "Musterfirma GmbH"
}
}

This are the parameters:

Field

Type

Explanation

contact

object

Merchant details.

project

string

Unique project name.

payout_account

object

Bank account of the merchant.

payin_account

boolean

Optional field to request a separate pay-in account. This is usually not needed, and and defaults to false.

These are the details of the contact field:

Field

Type

Explanation

companyname

string

Company name, if not a private person.

forename

string

First name of the contact person.

surname

string

Last name.

salutation

string

Salutation, such as "Mr." / "Ms.".

title

string

Optional academic title (academic), e.g.: "Dr.", "Dr. med.", "Dipl.-Ing.", "Dipl.-Inf.", "Dipl.-Kauf", "e. Kfm", "Prof."

dob

string

Date of birth; format: YYYY-MM-DD

nationality

string

Optional nationality as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code like "DE"

email

string

Email address

phone

string

Phone number; ITU-T E.123 format

mobile

string

Optional mobile phone number; ITU-T E.123 format

address

object

Postal address

This is the address structure in depth:

Field

Type

Explanation

street

string

Street name

street_number

string

House number

postal_code

string

ZIP code

city

string

City

country

string

Country as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, like "DE"

These are the details of the payout_account field (at top-level of the request):

Field

Type

Explanation

iban

string

International Bank Account Number (IBAN) without spaces

bic

string

Bank Identifier Code (BIC; also SWIFT code) without spaces; optional for bank accounts in Germany (IBAN starts with "DE")

owner

string

Bank account owner

If everything is fine, the API responds with 200 OK and the needed details:

Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
...
 
{
"merchant": {
"object": "general.merchants",
"id": "MRC_EDFUVDKYKY58CH0B70U73SFAGW0XOK"
},
"contract": {
"object": "general.contracts",
"id": "GCR_7GDYFMMJ9SK75P2BJRRN6JA8Y0DSOJ"
},
"apikey": "fc1aa3bed1b1608b2253fc407b96858d55121210"
}

After creation, the contract is locked for payouts. When the KYC process is finished and the contract is unlocked, you receive an automated push notification. This notification is described in the Reference section for Push Notifications.

The response object contains a contract ID (contract/id). You need to store this ID in the system. It is needed when you create transactions the orders.

Upload Registration Documents

You can upload the registration documents in secuOffice. But it can improve the onboarding process when you forward the registration documents.

To achieve this you can upload his documents, one-by-one. After that you create a "service case" ticket. If you need to hand in missing documents later, you repeat this. You upload the missing documents, and create another "service case" for them.

Document Upload with Multipart Message

The endpoint for multipart message uploads is POST /api/v2/Document/Uploads with Content-Type: multipart/form-data:

Request
POST /api/v2/Document/Uploads HTTP/1.1
Host: connect-testing.secupay-ag.de
Authorization: Bearer qb56tjj1bcvo9n2nj4u38k84lo
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----Boundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Accept: application/json
 
----Boundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Dummy file"; filename="dummy.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/pdf
 
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If you need to understand more about multipart data transmission, you can refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Form-Data.

Response
{
"object": "document.uploads",
"id": "DUP_8Z092GGNK60KD94JPZFKYDS6C67X4C",
"created": "2018-08-01T08:00:30+02:00"
}

Response parameters:

Field

Type

Meaning

object

string

Always document.uploads

id

string

ID of uploaded file; needed for subsequent API requests

created

string

Date and time of the upload (ISO 8601)

The file content is not contained in the object representation.

Document Upload with JSON Request

The endpoint for JSON uploads is POST /api/v2/Document/Uploads with Content-Type: application/json:

Request
POST /api/v2/Document/Uploads HTTP/1.1
Host: connect-testing.secupay-ag.de
Authorization: Bearer qb56tjj1bcvo9n2nj4u38k84lo
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
 
{
"name": "Gewerbeanmeldung",
"type": "application/pdf",
"content": "JVBERi0xLjQKJcOkw7zDtsOfCjIgMCBvYmoKPDwvTGVuZ3RoIDMg...GCg=="
}

The parameters name and type are optional but recommended. The field content takes the Base64 encoded file.

The API responds with an representation of the created file object.

Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
...
 
{
"object": "document.uploads",
"id": "DUP_8Z092GGNK60KD94JPZFKYDS6C67X4C",
"created": "2018-08-01T08:00:30+02:00"
}

Response parameters:

Field

Type

Meaning

object

string

Always document.uploads

id

string

ID of uploaded file; needed for subsequent API requests

created

string

Date and time of the upload (ISO 8601)

The file content is not contained in the object representation.

Create a Service Case

Having uploaded the files, we create the Service Case.

The endpoint for this is POST /api/v2/Services/Uploadidents:

Request
POST /api/v2/Services/Uploadidents HTTP/1.1
Host: connect.secucard.com
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Accept-Charset: utf-8
Authorization: Bearer b7ekfehla82elit67jk7n1ng00
{
"contract_id": "GCR_7GDYFMMJ9SK75P2BJRRN6JA8Y0DSOJ",
"documents": [
      "DUF_8Z092GGNK60KD94JPZFKYDS6C67X4C",
"DUP_37L1T9B3BYGVTJ759FOKXFFPJY0NVG"
  ]
}

If everything is fine, the API responds with 200 OK and the ticket ID:

Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
...
 
{
"service_issue_id": 12345678
}

The response contains a service issue ID. It should be saved in your system. So it can be used to identify the ticket at secupay.

Check the Activation Status

Depending on the project setup, two push messages may be sent, one for the General Contract (GCR), and one for the Payment Contract (PCR). We recommend to work with the General Contract.

After this, you need to read the General Contract to recognise whether it is approved or not:

Request
GET /api/v2/General/Contracts/GCR_2JPUE9F2D7TTNJ3Z5R6V7Y9D8HB5FT HTTP/1.1
Host: connect-testing.secupay-ag.de
Authorization: Bearer qb56tjj1bcvo9n2nj4u38k84lo
Accept: application/json

If everything is fine, the API responds with 200 OK and the representation of the General Contract:

Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
...
 
{
"object": "general.contracts",
"id": "GCR_2JPUE9F2D7TTNJ3Z5R6V7Y9D8HB5FT",
"id_old": 1015383,
"approved": true,
"merchant": {
"object": "general.merchants",
"id": "MRC_PTBGSDJPO0H024K2Q5FBOMD21UNATQ"
}
}

The property "approved" tells, whether the contract can receive payments (true) or not (false).