API Overview

Bacs UK Direct Debit for Alternative Payment Processing Developer Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document
- VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Introduction to Direct Debits
- Mandate Requirements
- Handling Mandates Passed Through Third-Party Systems
- Direct Debit Batching Schedule
- Chargebacks
- Execution Date and Refund Period

Overview of Processing Direct Debits
- Create a Mandate Workflow
- Update a Mandate Workflow
- Revoke a Mandate Workflow
- Import a Mandate Workflow
- Process a Sale Workflow
- Cancel a Direct Debit Workflow
- Refund a Direct Debit Workflow
- Create a Mandate Statuses Workflow
- Import a Mandate Statuses Workflow
- Process a Sale Statuses Workflow

Requesting Direct Debits
- Create a Mandate
- Update a Mandate
- Import a Mandate
- Revoke a Mandate
- Check a Mandate Status
- Process a Direct Debit Sale
- Check a Direct Debit Status
- Cancel a Direct Debit
- Refund a Direct Debit

Reference Information
- Merchant Account Types
- Reason Codes for Bacs Direct Debits for the Simple Order API
- Export Compliance Reason Codes
- Generating Reports Using the Business Center
- Terminology

Requesting Direct Debits

The alternative payment direct debit services enable you to manage electronic mandates and to withdraw funds from your customer’s bank account and deposit those funds to your bank account. Direct debit services support one-time and recurring payments.

These are the direct debit services:

Mandate management: Create a mandate
Update a mandate
Import a mandate
Revoke a mandate
Check a mandate status
Processing direct debits: Process a direct debit sale
Check a direct debit status
Cancel a direct debit
Refund a direct debit