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Bank Payments

Setting up mandates

Direct Debit Mandates Verified Mandates PayTo Agreements and Payments Build a client to create mandates offline Supporting mandates set up outside of your product Importing Mandates Blocking mandates

One-off payments

Taking an Instant Bank Payment Taking a one off payment

Recurring payments

Taking Subscription payments Taking Instalment payments Variable Recurring Payments

Combining one-off and recurring payments

Take a first Instant Payment with mandate  set up

Responding to events

Responding to Mandate Events Responding to Billing Requests Events

FX Payments Reconciling Payouts ACH and PAD Consent Types

Send money

Introduction to Outbound Payments Payment Account API request signing

Send an outbound payment

Adding a new recipient Initiate an outbound payment Approve an outbound payment Cancel an outbound payment

Tracking outbound payments Bank Account Holder Verification Strong Customer Authentication

Optimise and increase revenue

Prevent fraud with Protect+ Retain customers with fallbacks Reduced failed payments with Success+

Prefill customer details

New customer record Existing customer record Populate Billing Request Flow

Tutorials

Taking Direct Debit payments using Billing Requests and Custom Payment Pages Handling tax Handling Customer Notifications

GoCardless Embed

Introduction Creating a creditor Adding a creditor bank account Optional Setting a scheme identifer Optional

Setting up mandates / collecting payments

Billing Request with Actions: Setting up a Direct Debit mandate Collecting a Direct Debit payment Billing Request with Actions: Taking an Instant Bank Payment Billing Request with Actions Dual Flow: Taking an Instant Bank Payment and setting up a Direct Debit mandate

Handling webhooks

Reconciling payouts

Payout Items API Automated Payout Reporting Optional

Setting Up Branding Optional API request signing Optional Bank Details Access Optional

Bank Account Data

Overview Quickstart Guide Endpoints Bank Selection UI Sandbox Statuses and Error code Output: Account Details Output: Balances Output: Transaction Details Postman Collection FAQs

Outbound Payments

This guide provides an overview of how GoCardless handles outbound payments, covering key features, examples, and API usage to ensure you have everything you need to get started.

What is an Outbound Payment?

Outbound Payments enable merchants to send money using the GoCardless API.

Why "Outbound Payments"? Unlike collection payments, where funds move from customers to merchants, the money flow for sending money is reversed — funds are transferred from the merchant's account to the recipient's account. To clearly reflect this reversed flow, we named the resource "Outbound Payment".

Availability

Geo	Currency	Scheme
🇬🇧 UK	GBP	faster_payments

What’s next?

Payment Account

Set up API request signing for outbound payments

Add a recipient for sending money

Create your first outbound payment to send money

Connect as a partner