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Bancontact

Bancontact is a payment institution operating in Belgium.

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Product overview

Feature summary

Payment type	Country	Acceptance Currency	Settlement Currency	Recurring	Reversals	Partial Reversals	Reversals period	Disputes
Local card scheme	Belgium	EUR	EUR	❌	Partial refund - yes Partial cancel- No	Partial refund - yes Partial cancel- No	Up to 180 days	❌

Minimum transaction amount: 0.02 EUR
Maximum transaction amount:
- 1.500 EUR on mobile app
- 5.000 EUR by bank
Maximum amount for a single refund: 3.000 EUR

Get started

Get started using our API Reference and set your headers.

Request

POST https://try.access.worldpay.com/apmPayments

Example requests

application/json

{
  "transactionReference": "Memory265-13/08/1876",
  "merchant": {
    "entity": "default"
  },
  "instruction": {
    "method": "bancontact",
    "value": {
      "amount": 250,
      "currency": "EUR"
    },
    "narrative": {
      "line1": "MindPalaceLtd"
    },
    "paymentInstrument": {
      "type": "direct",
      "country": "BE"
    },
    "resultUrls": {
      "cancel": "https://worldpay.com/cancel",
      "pending": "https://worldpay.com/pending",
      "success": "https://worldpay.com/success"
    },
    "customer": {
      "email": "moriarty@example.com"
    }
  }
}

Parameters

transactionReferencestring[ 1 .. 64 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_/!@#$%()*=.:;?\[\]{}~+]*$required

merchantobject(MerchantV2)required

merchant.entitystring[ 3 .. 32 ] characters^([a-zA-Z0-9\- ]*)$required

Used to route the request in Access Worldpay, created as part of on-boarding.

Example: "default"

instructionobject(InstructionV2)required

Object that contains the payment type and details.

instruction.methodstringrequired

Type of payment method

Value"alipay_cn"

Discriminator

instruction.valueobject(Value)required

The value of the payment.

instruction.value.amountinteger(int64)[ 1 .. 2147483647 ]required

The amount in the lowest denomination of the currency e.g. pennies for GBP, cents for USD.

Example: 12

instruction.value.currencystringrequired

The supported ISO 4217 currency codes.

Enum"AED""AFN""ANG""AOA""ARS""AUD""AWG""AZN""BAM""BBD"

instruction.narrativeobject(NarrativeBase)required

instruction.narrative.line1string[ 1 .. 24 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9-., ]*$required

The description shown on your customer's bank statement for the payment.

Example: "MindPalace"

instruction.paymentInstrumentobject(AlipayCnInstrumentV2)required

instruction.paymentInstrument.typestringrequired

Type of instruction

Value"direct"

instruction.paymentInstrument.languagestring

Your customer's language.

Enum"aa""ab""ae""af""ak""am""an""ar""as""av"

instruction.resultUrlsobject(ResultUrlsAlipay)required

instruction.resultUrls.cancelstring

The URL your customer is redirected to, after a cancelled payment outcome.

Example: "https://worldpay.com/cancel"

instruction.resultUrls.failurestringrequired

The URL your customer is redirected to, after a failed payment outcome.

Example: "https://worldpay.com/failure"

instruction.resultUrls.pendingstringrequired

The URL your customer is redirected to, after a pending payment outcome.

Example: "https://worldpay.com/pending"

instruction.resultUrls.successstringrequired

The URL your customer is redirected to, after a successful payment outcome.

Example: "https://worldpay.com/success"

instruction.deviceDataobject(DeviceData)

instruction.customerobject(CustomerWithName)

Response

Successful request response

an HTTP code 201
a paymentId which is unique to the payment - we recommend storing the "id", as you can use it to manage the payment later
a url to redirect your customer to the APM provider to complete the payment
a link to query the payment status
an object which will give flow information such as method (e.g. bancontact) and type (direct)
a commandId generated by us identifying a single merchant interaction (e.g. cmdYNdIHBPJwbkjLiykzTx0)

Example response

{
    "paymentInstrument": {
        "method": "bancontact",
        "type": "direct"
    },
    "paymentId": "eyJrIjoiYXBtLXNlcnZpY2UtbG9jYWwiLCJsaW5rVmVyc2lvbiI6IjYuMC4wIn0=.BnnxxcMle38OazhwbF8J+4rtJi8CAq:Y3zUOn1dw6VWfvx:PHL5L0S+5ara5vz6ouV5yBmVUQCiSwQjs+1x5qJIJxAKWMWc2Mlb1doricEYlzsZIRIGCflvnYu1Ns8g1S0+66n6wCELiB9OHfX7cdDZM8QaH19DiFbmMAchPSTy3YhKhjHb7eU81eSTnCsB+em66NOYspir3PJsMwGsI7DgQG6H8RA6ud004Gi7UbmmWuCYako2x2qLNAoCkV0HeDe9tVGUUJ8RPRm2jMHH20eHV:lzKfpwhCpCj20XtN:CPsSI2e:sopgZlkbmyvzDIeWSIThE3J1pPGsapqefRFo:b1Rfx8XquR8u:dBYr5a70wYkewsxOvrYXmLip3Fvy7rdfTE9SB:F5xmui5ij57ItzoUGQqmhdlJEFtZOvawnk19rQ8+2IHhZzeukzTZ41bET6DfydrjX20ywVxbq2Jw==",
    "lastEvent": "pending",
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/apmPayments/eyJrIjoiYXBtLXNlcnZpY2UtbG9jYWwiLCJsaW5rVmVyc2lvbiI6IjYuMC4wIn0=.BnnxxcMle38OazhwbF8J+4rtJi8CAq:Y3zUOn1dw6VWfvx:PHL5L0S+5ara5vz6ouV5yBmVUQCiSwQjs+1x5qJIJxAKWMWc2Mlb1doricEYlzsZIRIGCflvnYu1Ns8g1S0+66n6wCELiB9OHfX7cdDZM8QaH19DiFbmMAchPSTy3YhKhjHb7eU81eSTnCsB+em66NOYspir3PJsMwGsI7DgQG6H8RA6ud004Gi7UbmmWuCYako2x2qLNAoCkV0HeDe9tVGUUJ8RPRm2jMHH20eHV:lzKfpwhCpCj20XtN:CPsSI2e:sopgZlkbmyvzDIeWSIThE3J1pPGsapqefRFo:b1Rfx8XquR8u:dBYr5a70wYkewsxOvrYXmLip3Fvy7rdfTE9SB:F5xmui5ij57ItzoUGQqmhdlJEFtZOvawnk19rQ8+2IHhZzeukzTZ41bET6DfydrjX20ywVxbq2Jw=="
        }
    },
    "_actions": {},
    "redirect": "http://secure-test.worldpay.com/redirect?tokenId=dc9c308b-d56b-4823-968e-0f94b20d6b73",
    "commandId": "cmdOl8x_MaK4TxcF3exdl5cL0"
}

Errors

Check out our API reference for the full error code schema.

Next steps

Manage your Bancontact payment