SumUp · Schema
Merchant
PaymentsPoint-of-SaleCard ReadersCheckoutFintechMobile PaymentsOnline Payments
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"title": "Merchant",
"allOf": [
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"merchant_code",
"country",
"default_currency",
"default_locale"
],
"properties": {
"merchant_code": {
"description": "Short unique identifier for the merchant.",
"type": "string",
"example": "MK01A8C2",
"readOnly": true
},
"organization_id": {
"description": "ID of the organization the merchant belongs to (if any).",
"type": "string",
"example": "G0UZPVAX"
},
"business_type": {
"description": "The business type.\n* `sole_trader`: The business is run by an self-employed individual.\n* `company`: The business is run as a company with one or more shareholders\n* `partnership`: The business is run as a company with two or more shareholders that can be also other legal entities\n* `non_profit`: The business is run as a nonprofit organization that operates for public or social benefit\n* `government_entity`: The business is state owned and operated\n",
"type": "string"
},
"company": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/Company"
},
"country": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/CountryCode"
},
"business_profile": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/BusinessProfile"
},
"avatar": {
"description": "A user-facing small-format logo for use in dashboards and other user-facing applications. For customer-facing branding see `merchant.business_profile.branding`.\n",
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"alias": {
"description": "A user-facing name of the merchant account for use in dashboards and other user-facing applications. For customer-facing business name see `merchant.business_profile`.\n",
"type": "string"
},
"default_currency": {
"description": "Three-letter [ISO currency code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217) representing the default currency for the account.\n",
"type": "string",
"example": "EUR",
"maxLength": 3,
"minLength": 3,
"readOnly": true
},
"default_locale": {
"description": "Merchant's default locale, represented as a BCP47 [RFC5646](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5646) language tag. This is typically an ISO 639-1 Alpha-2 [ISO639\u20111](https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-code) language code in lowercase and an ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 [ISO3166\u20111](https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html) country code in uppercase, separated by a dash. For example, en-US or fr-CA.\nIn multilingual countries this is the merchant's preferred locale out of those, that are officially spoken in the country. In a countries with a single official language this will match the official language.",
"type": "string",
"example": "de-DE",
"maxLength": 5,
"minLength": 2
},
"sandbox": {
"description": "True if the merchant is a sandbox for testing.",
"type": "boolean",
"example": false
},
"meta": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/Meta"
},
"classic": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ClassicMerchantIdentifiers"
},
"version": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/Version"
},
"change_status": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ChangeStatus"
}
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/Timestamps"
}
],
"externalDocs": {
"description": "Merchant documentation",
"url": "https://developer.sumup.com/tools/glossary/merchant"
}
}
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