Instant payouts

Introduction

The instant payment mode allows payouts to be processed within 25 seconds, rather than the 48 hours required for the batch processing of standard payout bank wires.

Scope

This functionality is available on the PayOuts object. Instant payment is only possible for payout bank wires in euros to a receiving bank in the SEPA zone.

Prerequisites

The following criteria are checked by MANGOPAY before we send a request for instant payment:

• You are authorised to execute instant payments

• You use the version 2.01 of the MANGOPAY API

• The user holding the bank account is KYC verified (KYCLevel=REGULAR)

• The user is not blocked by MANGOPAY

• The payout is in euros and the receiving bank is in the SEPA zone

• The amount of the payout is lower than the threshold above which MANGOPAY carries out a manual verification to guarantee the security of your funds (this threshold depends on your activity and workflow, but it is about €2,500 on average)

Once these verifications are complete, we proceed with the request for an instant payout. Several other criteria must be respected for the operation to be instantaneous:

• The receiving bank must be reachable. This means that it participates in the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme of the European Payments Council (EPC). A non-exhaustive list of reachable banks can be found on the EPC website.
• No opposition is linked to the banking situations of the creditor or debtor. These oppositions can be functional (e.g. deceased account holder) or technical (e.g. the receiving bank does not respond).
• No instant payment has been made to the same bank account for the same amount in the preceding 24 hours.

If any one of the criteria above is not satisfied, we process the instant payment request as a standard payout.

To determine whether a bank account was created using v1 or v2, please compare with the following examples:

BankAccount example created using API v1

{
    "OwnerName": "Name Surname",
    "OwnerAddress": "6 rue Ordeneria, batiment A, 75018 Paris FR",
    "IBAN": "FR7610107041011234567890129",
    "BIC": "BREDFRPPXXX",
    "Tag": "Postman create a bank account"
}

BankAccount example created using API v2

{
    "OwnerName": "Name Surname",
    "OwnerAddress": {
        "AddressLine1":"6 rue Ordeneria",
        "AddressLine2": "batiment A",
        "City": "Paris",
        "PostalCode":"75018",
        "Country":"FR"
    },
    "IBAN": "FR7610107041011234567890129",
    "BIC": "BREDFRPPXXX",
    "Tag": "Postman create a bank account"
}

Activation

Please contact support@mangopay.com to activate instant payouts. There are two ways you can integrate this feature:

1. On demand

On calls to the Create a PayOut endpoint, the parameter PayoutModeRequested enables you to request the instant payment mode on each payout using the value INSTANT_PAYMENT (or INSTANT_PAYMENT_ONLY, see below). If this parameter is not sent, the payout will be processed as STANDARD (within 48 hours).

2. Threshold

Alternatively, MANGOPAY can set a threshold under which all payouts will be attempted as instant payments. In case of an unsuccessful instant payment attempt, there is a fallback so that the payout will be made automatically via standard bank wire. The threshold approach requires no integration on your side; the feature can be activated as soon as you request it. The on-demand functionality can still be used even if a threshold is in place. If you set a PayoutModeRequested value for a particular payout call, it will take precedence over the threshold rule in place.

Please contact support@mangopay.com to switch the activation mode.

Endpoints

Request an instant payment

On calls to the PayOut endpoint, the parameter PayoutModeRequested enables you to request an instant payout by using the value INSTANT_PAYMENT. Otherwise, you can use the value STANDARD to request a normal payout (processed in under 48 hours).

If no parameter is sent, the payout will be processed as STANDARD.

POST  /payouts/bankwire

In the response to the API call, the parameter Status will have the value CREATED to indicate that the request has been taken into account.

Verify the payout mode used

Once the payout request has been made, you can verify the mode applied via a GET call to the following endpoint. This new endpoint gives the same information as the existing one with additional information regarding the instant payment.

GET  /payouts/bankwire/{id}

Verify the eligibility of an instant payout request

Before making a payout request, you can verify that all your settings are correct and that the destination bank is reachable with a POST call to the following endpoint. This call has the same parameters as the payout request but is to a different endpoint.
Note, however, that you need to set the PayoutModeRequested parameter to “INSTANT_PAYMENT” for this call to work properly.

POST  /{ClientID}/payouts/reachability/

For more details on the result codes, please see Errors.

Testing

To simulate a banking error blocking an instant payment, you can use the following bank account:

    "IBAN": "FR541558929750ZZZZZZAC01915",
    "BIC": "CMBRFR2BXXX",

To simulate a non-reachable bank account, you can enter the following bankwire reference in the call body:

    "BankWireRef": "IP1070",