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Payment Initiation Examples

Illustrative request and response examples for the UK Open Banking Payment Initiation API v4.0.1

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Payment Initiation Examples is an example object payload from UK Open Banking, with 5 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

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{
  "title": "Payment Initiation API",
  "version": "4.0.1",
  "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenBankingUK/read-write-api-specs/master/dist/openapi/payment-initiation-openapi.yaml",
  "description": "Illustrative request and response examples for the UK Open Banking Payment Initiation API v4.0.1",
  "examples": [
    {
      "operationId": "CreateDomesticPaymentConsents",
      "path": "/domestic-payment-consents",
      "method": "POST",
      "type": "request",
      "mediaType": "application/json",
      "description": "Create a domestic payment consent",
      "example": {
        "Data": {
          "Initiation": {
            "InstructionIdentification": "ACME412",
            "EndToEndIdentification": "FRESCO.21302.GFX.20",
            "InstructedAmount": {
              "Amount": "165.88",
              "Currency": "GBP"
            },
            "CreditorAccount": {
              "SchemeName": "UK.OBIE.SortCodeAccountNumber",
              "Identification": "08080021325698",
              "Name": "ACME Inc",
              "SecondaryIdentification": "0002"
            },
            "RemittanceInformation": {
              "Reference": "FRESCO-101",
              "Unstructured": "Internal ops code 5120101"
            }
          }
        },
        "Risk": {
          "PaymentContextCode": "EcommerceGoods",
          "MerchantCategoryCode": "5967",
          "MerchantCustomerIdentification": "053598653254"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "operationId": "CreateDomesticPaymentConsents",
      "path": "/domestic-payment-consents",
      "method": "POST",
      "statusCode": "201",
      "type": "response",
      "mediaType": "application/json",
      "description": "Successful creation of a domestic payment consent",
      "example": {
        "Data": {
          "ConsentId": "58923",
          "CreationDateTime": "2026-06-13T10:00:00+00:00",
          "Status": "AwaitingAuthorisation",
          "StatusUpdateDateTime": "2026-06-13T10:00:00+00:00",
          "CutOffDateTime": "2026-06-13T15:30:00+00:00",
          "ExpectedExecutionDateTime": "2026-06-13T16:00:00+00:00",
          "ExpectedSettlementDateTime": "2026-06-14T09:00:00+00:00",
          "Initiation": {
            "InstructionIdentification": "ACME412",
            "EndToEndIdentification": "FRESCO.21302.GFX.20",
            "InstructedAmount": {
              "Amount": "165.88",
              "Currency": "GBP"
            },
            "CreditorAccount": {
              "SchemeName": "UK.OBIE.SortCodeAccountNumber",
              "Identification": "08080021325698",
              "Name": "ACME Inc",
              "SecondaryIdentification": "0002"
            },
            "RemittanceInformation": {
              "Reference": "FRESCO-101",
              "Unstructured": "Internal ops code 5120101"
            }
          }
        },
        "Risk": {
          "PaymentContextCode": "EcommerceGoods",
          "MerchantCategoryCode": "5967",
          "MerchantCustomerIdentification": "053598653254"
        },
        "Links": {
          "Self": "https://api.alphabank.com/open-banking/v4.0/pisp/domestic-payment-consents/58923"
        },
        "Meta": {
          "TotalPages": 1
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "operationId": "CreateDomesticPayments",
      "path": "/domestic-payments",
      "method": "POST",
      "type": "request",
      "mediaType": "application/json",
      "description": "Submit a domestic payment after consent authorisation",
      "example": {
        "Data": {
          "ConsentId": "58923",
          "Initiation": {
            "InstructionIdentification": "ACME412",
            "EndToEndIdentification": "FRESCO.21302.GFX.20",
            "InstructedAmount": {
              "Amount": "165.88",
              "Currency": "GBP"
            },
            "CreditorAccount": {
              "SchemeName": "UK.OBIE.SortCodeAccountNumber",
              "Identification": "08080021325698",
              "Name": "ACME Inc",
              "SecondaryIdentification": "0002"
            },
            "RemittanceInformation": {
              "Reference": "FRESCO-101",
              "Unstructured": "Internal ops code 5120101"
            }
          }
        },
        "Risk": {
          "PaymentContextCode": "EcommerceGoods",
          "MerchantCategoryCode": "5967",
          "MerchantCustomerIdentification": "053598653254"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "operationId": "CreateDomesticPayments",
      "path": "/domestic-payments",
      "method": "POST",
      "statusCode": "201",
      "type": "response",
      "mediaType": "application/json",
      "description": "Successful domestic payment submission",
      "example": {
        "Data": {
          "DomesticPaymentId": "58923-001",
          "ConsentId": "58923",
          "CreationDateTime": "2026-06-13T10:05:00+00:00",
          "Status": "AcceptedSettlementInProcess",
          "StatusUpdateDateTime": "2026-06-13T10:05:00+00:00",
          "ExpectedExecutionDateTime": "2026-06-13T16:00:00+00:00",
          "ExpectedSettlementDateTime": "2026-06-14T09:00:00+00:00",
          "Initiation": {
            "InstructionIdentification": "ACME412",
            "EndToEndIdentification": "FRESCO.21302.GFX.20",
            "InstructedAmount": {
              "Amount": "165.88",
              "Currency": "GBP"
            },
            "CreditorAccount": {
              "SchemeName": "UK.OBIE.SortCodeAccountNumber",
              "Identification": "08080021325698",
              "Name": "ACME Inc",
              "SecondaryIdentification": "0002"
            },
            "RemittanceInformation": {
              "Reference": "FRESCO-101",
              "Unstructured": "Internal ops code 5120101"
            }
          },
          "MultiAuthorisation": {
            "Status": "Authorised",
            "NumberRequired": 2,
            "NumberReceived": 2
          }
        },
        "Links": {
          "Self": "https://api.alphabank.com/open-banking/v4.0/pisp/domestic-payments/58923-001"
        },
        "Meta": {
          "TotalPages": 1
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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