Returned Unpaid Payments can be re-presented if required. Bacs rules govern how and when these payments can be re-presented.
Re-present records are a single payment retry from a customer, taken against an existing Unpaid Payment record and therefore requires a reference to the original payment.
SmarterPay will notify you via a webhook whenever the state of a re-presented payment changes.
If SmarterPay Cloud receives a re-present Payment request with a collection_date set to a none banking date (weekend or national bank holiday), SmarterPay Cloud will record/store the Payment record with next available banking day, and return this date in the response.
For example, if a POST request tries to set the “collection_date” to Friday 30th March, this is the Easter Bank Holiday weekend with both Friday 30th and Monday 2nd being national bank holidays, the date stored and returned is Tuesday 3rd April.
| Method | Purpose |
|---|---|
| POST | Create a Payment Re-present |
| PUT | Update a Payment - Refer to the Payment PUT section |
| GET | Return Payment details - Refer to the Payment GET section |
Action: Create a Payment Re-present.
Method: POST
URL: https://api.smarterpaycloud.com/service.svc/payment/{ID}/represent
{ID} denotes ID of Payment record.
Request Parameters
| Property | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
| amount | True | Amount in pence – no decimal point |
| auddis | True | The unique AUDDIS ref beginning with the assigned prefix followed by an auto number. if no reference is provided to use then one will be generated. |
| collection_date | True | Date to receive payment - 10 digit date in the format of “YYYY-MM-DD” |
| custom_reference | False | Custom reference set on record |
| description | True | Reference description – will be included in outgoing email |
| metadata | False | String for Custom metadata. Maximum 1000 characters. |
| record_type | False | Default direct debit |
Request Sample
{
"payment":
{
"amount":100,
"collection_date":"2018-08-25",
"description":"metered bill",
"auddis":"AUD00003435",
"custom_reference":"XYZ"
}
}
Response Parameters
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| id | Unique identifier |
| amount | Amount |
| auddis | Unique auddis identifier |
| collection_date | Date to receive payment - 10 digit date in the format of “YYYY-MM-DD”, corrected, if the date received by the service is a none banking day, weekend or national bank holiday |
| created_at | Datetime formatted as ISO8601 |
| custom_reference | Custom reference set on record |
| description | Reference description – will be included in outgoing email |
| metadata | Returns optional, custom, metadata, if set |
| payment_type | Can be set to either “first_collection”, “ongoing_collection”,“final_collection” or “represent” |
| record_type | Record type of payment, default will be “direct_debit” |
| related_payment | This is the Payment id of the initial Failed Payment, only applicable for represented payments |
| status | This should always start with “pending_submission” and then change to “submitted”, can also be “failed”,“successful” or “cancelled” |
Response Sample
{
"payment":
{
"id":"PAY0000031",
"created_at":"2018-08-23T12:43:18.000Z",
"collection_date":"2018-08-25",
"amount":100,
"payment_type":"ongoing_collection",
"description":"metered bill",
"status":"pending_submission",
"auddis":"AUD00003435",
"related_payment":"PAY00000034",
"record_type":"direct_debit",
"custom_reference":"XYZ",
"metadata":""
}
}