Deposits

Transfer funds onto your platform from a customer's external checking or savings accounts.

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Prerequisite

Set Up Enterprise Account In Sandbox

Overview

The deposit use case lets customers transfer money onto your platform. Your customer's external account is the funding source, and your platform is the funding destination.

Deposits overview diagram

Key Steps

1. Authenticate to Deliver

Use the /authenticate and /refresh endpoints.

2. Create a customer and an associated external account, which will be the funding source

Use the POST /persons or POST /businesses endpoint to create the customer and the POST /external/accounts endpoint to create the external account.

  • The external account can be created while verification takes place
  • If you are using your own account verification provider (BYO), the external account will be automatically verified

3. Ensure you have created your enterprise's external account, which will be the funding destination

Follow theSet Up Enterprise Account In Sandbox guide.

  • Pass your enterprise's id, provided to you by Orum, in the customer_reference_id to associate the external account with your enterprise
  • Set the customer_resource_type to "enterprise"
  • The external account will be automatically verified

4. Transfer funds from the source to the destination

Use the POST /transfers endpoint to create the transfer.

  • All Persons or Businesses and External Accounts must be in a verified state before the transfer can be created

Workflows

Deposits workflow