UK Open Banking

UK Open Banking File Payments API

The File Payments API from UK Open Banking — 4 operation(s) for file payments.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Payment Initiation Management BC-1340.10

Operations 4

POST /file-payments Submit a File Payment #
GET /file-payments/{FilePaymentId} Get a File Payment by FilePaymentId #
GET /file-payments/{FilePaymentId}/payment-details Get payment details for a File Payment #
GET /file-payments/{FilePaymentId}/report-file Get a File Payment's Report File #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://openbankinguk.github.io/read-write-api-site3/v4.0.1/
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RateLimits
https://artifacts.apis.io/open-banking-uk/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/open-banking-uk/openapi/open-banking-uk-file-payments-api-openapi.yml

SDKs

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/OpenBankingUK/read-write-api-specs

Other Resources

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Sandbox
https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/overview
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ConformanceSuite
https://github.com/OpenBankingUK/conformance-suite
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Plans
https://artifacts.apis.io/open-banking-uk/plans/plans.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

open-banking-uk-file-payments-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Payment Initiation File Payments API
  description: 'Swagger for Payment Initiation API Specification.


    **Please Note**: There are no optional fields, if a field is not marked as “Required” it is a Conditional field.'
  termsOfService: https://www.openbanking.org.uk/terms
  contact:
    name: Service Desk
    email: ServiceDesk@openbanking.org.uk
  license:
    name: open-licence
    url: https://www.openbanking.org.uk/open-licence
  version: 4.0.1
servers:
- url: /open-banking/v4.0/pisp
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/open-banking-uk/openapi/open-banking-uk-file-payments-api-openapi.yml