Open is one of India's leading SMB neobanks, pioneering "connected banking" - a unified business finance platform that layers payments, automated reconciliation, accounting, payroll, expense management, vendor payouts, and GST-compliant invoicing on top of partner-bank current accounts (ICICI, SBI, Axis Bank, Yes Bank and 20+ others). Beyond its SMB application, Open also ships an embedded-finance / Banking-as-a-Service stack branded as Zwitch (zwitch.io), which exposes the same connected-banking primitives - virtual accounts, payouts via NEFT/IMPS/RTGS, UPI collect and intent flows, the Layer hosted payment gateway, beneficiary management, PAN/bank/VPA verification, webhooks, and split settlements - as REST APIs for fintechs and platforms that want to embed account-to-account payments and Indian payment rails into their own products. Open's broader portfolio also includes BankingStack (white-label connected banking for partner banks), the Open Capital lending product, and a suite of e-commerce plugins (WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop, CS-Cart, WHMCS) plus PHP, Java, Node.js, iOS, and Android SDKs for the Layer payment gateway.
Open (open.money) publishes 20 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, Constants API, Events API, and 17 more. Tagged areas include Connected Banking, Neobank, Small Business, Embedded Finance, and Banking as a Service.
The Open (open.money) catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Open (open.money)’s developer surface includes support, authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, developer console, signup flow, GitHub presence, and 22 more developer resources.
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Programmatic creation and management of virtual accounts used as transfer wallets, collection wallets, and collection tools on top of partner-bank infrastructure. Virtual accoun...
Initiate single or bulk fund transfers from a virtual account to bank beneficiaries over NEFT, IMPS, or RTGS, and inspect transfer status, UTR, and settlement details. Powers ve...
Manage the set of bank-account beneficiaries that can be paid from a virtual account. Supports creating beneficiaries, listing, retrieving, updating, and deleting, with optional...
UPI collect requests, UPI Intent strings, and dynamic UPI QR codes for accepting customer-initiated payments on India's Unified Payments Interface rails. Includes mandate flows ...
Layer is Zwitch's hosted payment gateway. A few lines of layer.js render a fully PCI-compliant checkout pop-up that accepts net banking, UPI, credit/debit cards, and wallets. Se...
Identity and account-validation suite used during merchant onboarding, KYB, and pre-payout checks. Endpoints cover PAN verification, name matching, bank-account validation (stan...
Configure split-settlement rules so that incoming payments are automatically apportioned across multiple beneficiary accounts at settlement time. Used by marketplaces, aggregato...
No-code hosted payment pages and payment links that small businesses can share over email, SMS, or WhatsApp to collect one-time or recurring payments without writing integration...
Open's flagship SMB neobanking application. Connects one or more partner-bank current accounts (ICICI, SBI, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, and others) and layers on bill and invoice manag...
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