Quickstart: Make a bank transfer payment with Payments API v1

Make a single immediate payment with our Payments API v1:

1. Sign up to our Console and get your client_id and client_secret.
2. Make a POST /connect/token call to exchange the code you get from your Console for an access_token.
3. Set up a single immediate payment, specifying recipient and amount.
4. Select your bank to make the payment by following the authorisation link.

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Step 1 - Sign up

1. Sign up to our Console > App settings and get your client_id and client_secret.
2. Download our sandbox Postman collection. It contains sample requests so that you can quickly retrieve data and generate code snippets in various languages of your choice.

Step 2 - Obtain an access token

1. Open the first step in the Postman collection and select the Body tab.
2. Set client_id and client_secret to your sandbox application's values.
3. Select Send to send the request to our server.

You’ll receive an access_token in the response. Copy this value to your clipboard.

Step 3 - Make a bank transfer payment

1. Go to the second step in the Postman collection > Authorization.
2. Set access_token to the value you got in the response in Step 2.
3. Go to the Body tab and replace the values with the actual payment details. Make sure redirect_uri is one of the URIs that has been whitelisted in the TrueLayer Console.
4. Select Send to send the request to our server.
5. Open the auth_uri in a browser to complete the payment.
6. Use the customer number 123456789012 and follow the hints above the password input fields to complete authentication.

Step 4 - Get Payment Status

1. Go to the third step in the Postman collection > Authorization.
2. Set access_token to the value you got in the response in Step 2.
3. Replace PAYMENT-ID-HERE in the URI with the value of simp_id you got from the response in Step 3.
4. Select Send to send the request to our server. We will return the status for this payment.