integration with payments for automatic electronic payment notification

Z

zeely

Senior Member
Joined
Aug 17, 2005
Messages
908
Reaction score
2
I'm sure the banks provide automatic payment notification via tcpip. How does one access this? who do you speak to? has anyone here implemented this before?
 
Yeah, they do. Its called an email and its transmitted via tcpip :D
 
ghoti said:
Yeah, they do. Its called an email and its transmitted via tcpip :D
Click to expand...

yeah yeah :)

i'm pretty sure theres an actual notification system in place which pushes notifications to your listening server.
 
zeely said:
yeah yeah :)

i'm pretty sure theres an actual notification system in place which pushes notifications to your listening server.
Click to expand...

I think what you are looking for is an API, and I am not sure what the banks offer in this regards :D
 
So has anyone done integration like this before?
 
zeely said:
I'm sure the banks provide automatic payment notification via tcpip. How does one access this? who do you speak to? has anyone here implemented this before?
Click to expand...

I'm pretty sure that you have to pay the banks some amount of money for this type of api ... another way you might be able to work around it is to perhaps read it off some email server (maybe set a standalone one?) since email messages are pretty much standard?

*EDIT*
The other way they notify is via sms ... so it could be possible to setup a gsm modem and read all notifications received by the sim .. an alternative solution i guess :)
 
smb3 said:
I'm pretty sure that you have to pay the banks some amount of money for this type of api ... another way you might be able to work around it is to perhaps read it off some email server (maybe set a standalone one?) since email messages are pretty much standard?

*EDIT*
The other way they notify is via sms ... so it could be possible to setup a gsm modem and read all notifications received by the sim .. an alternative solution i guess :)
Click to expand...

we dont mind paying for access to the API.

I've already written an app that picks up sms from a GSM modem, but this approach sucks. We have a web based app doing a few million transactions per month. It doesnt make any sense to have a pc with a 3g modem listening for SMS. What if the power goes off.

A tcpip API approach would be best as we can then write the app to run on our back end servers and update the database as required
 
currently our admin staff sit an manually capture client payments, but this is also a problem as it requires manual labour and is error prone. There are literally thousands of deposits each day. So an automatic notification system with an API would make life so much easier.

I've heard that the banks do it, but i'll be a monkeys uncle if i can figure out who to talk to or how to find out more about it
 
I know what of your talking about.. Like for when you receive a payment in your bank account it sets off an event trigger to do something. I have seen some sites use them, for example to buy prepaid electricity online, as the get your EFT it automatically sends me my code. Was looking for software like this too and how to access some sort of bank api to view current payments. Let me know if you find anything on this. Going to try ask around to see how certain companies take their approach to this.

~Koeks
 
ok - so FNB's version is called "incontact PRO". It can push notifications to your listening server.

I'm still trying to find out from ABSA/NEDBANK
 
We bank with FNB and wrote an app to POP our inContact notifications, read the reference and apply those payments to matching accounts.

What OS is your system running on?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X