GoCardless Embed

Introduction

GoCardless Embed allows you to offer white-labelled bank payments to your merchants. This guide walks through how to integrate with GoCardless' API in order to access our global bank pay network.

You can follow this guide along with the GoCardless Embed Postman collection.

Contents

This guide will cover:

  • Creating creditors to represent each of your merchants.

  • Adding creditor bank accounts where GoCardless will settle funds.

  • Requesting scheme identifiers to customise the beneficiary name on the payer's bank statement.

  • Using Billing Requests to set up mandates and collect payments.

  • Handling webhooks to keep track of event actions and trigger notifications to payers.

  • Reconciling payments to keep track of the entire flow of funds.

Prerequisites

Before starting this guide you should:

  • Contact the GoCardless Embed team so we can set up a sandbox account for you.

  • Once you have access to your account, create a read-write API token in the dashboard and use it to make a request. Follow making your first request for how to do this.

What's next?

Creating a creditor