Use Case: Card Collections

Problem

Digitization and changes in customer preferences are putting pressures on large insurers to offer new and unfamiliar payment methods to their policyholders.

Exposure to certain payment methods such as card payments for premium collections has been limited for many insurers. Additionally, many enterprises lack experience and expertise in the payment arena, including the right technology to connect.

The complexity of accepting card payments is primarily linked to connecting new providers to existing IT infrastructure, embedding reporting into existing processes, updating the existing processes as well as navigating the provider and solution landscape in the payment ecosystem.

Solution

We offer insurers a single integration to seamlessly and rapidly deploy card collection capabilities, regardless of which billing or ERP system you use and how old it is.

Through Duck Creek Payments, insurers have access to all payment providers and payment technologies around the globe without the need for direct integrations. Payments also provides PCI DSS compliant iFrames that can be embedded into your customer's journey.

We do all the heavy lifting and simplify many of the technical problems, so you can fully enhance your payment capabilities while saving time and resources.

Prerequisites

In order to work with card collections, ensure the following.

You have access to the Tenant Portal
You have generated valid API Keys.
You have installed and configured the Marketplace Apps with the relevant credentials.
You have created and configured a Collect Scheme.

Supported Apps and Payment Methods

Stripe - Cards
Checkout.com - Cards
SIBS DPG - Cards
Braintree - Cards
Global Payments - Cards
Worldline Saferpay - Cards
NAB Gateway - Cards
BNZ CyberSource - Cards

Working with Card Collections

Step 1: Authenticate

The first step to using the Payments API is to authenticate yourself by generating an Access Token. See Authenticate your API Requests for more information.

Step 2: Define Your Payment Intention

For every collection, you need to set the value of the direction property to Debit.

Create your Order and Instruction and make a call to the create-order endpoint. See Define Your Payment Intention for more information.

POST URL OrderRequest Header SampleRequest Body Sample

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https://sandbox-api.imbursepayments.com/v2/order-management

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Authorization: Bearer {eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1N...9UAUBNuyPN6Xg}
x-account-id: 49bder42-90d9-46b1-b120-f6b347d621a0
x-tenant-id: 60452f48-5d48-4bc0-ab6f-5cr3ee411f63
Content-Type: application/json

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{
	"orderRef": "order_card_payment",
	"instructions": [
		{
			"instructionRef": "inst_payment",
			"customerRef": "DEEPAK_004",
			"direction": "DEBIT",
			"financialInstrumentId": "",
			"amount": "110.00",
			"currency": "GBP",
			"country": "UK",
			"schemeId": "4E1E8D9F022E7A6A09FAEB71992E7F2F",
              "settledByDate": "2022-12-01",
			"metadata": {}
		}
	]
}

Step 3: Generate Checkout Session Token

The billing details of the customer are optional. However, it is strongly recommended that you set the values for the billing details properties. The values of the orderRef and instructionRef properties should be the the same as in Step 2: Define Your Payment Intention.

Copy the value of orderRef and instructionRef properties from Step 2: Define Your Payment Intention and use them to make create the request body of the Create session token endpoint.

POST URL OrderRequest Header SampleRequest Body SampleResponse Body Sample

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https://sandbox-api.imbursepayments.com/v2/whitelabel-customer/session/checkout

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Authorization: Bearer {eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1N...9UAUBNuyPN6Xg}
x-account-id: 49bder42-90d9-46b1-b120-f6b347d621a0
x-tenant-id: 60452f48-5d48-4bc0-ab6f-5cr3ee411f63
Content-Type: application/json

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{
    "orderRef": "order_card_payment", 
    "instructionRef": "inst_payment",
    "expirySeconds": "6000",
    "billingStreet1": "45 Braemar Rd",
    "billingStreet2": "", 
    "billingCity": "Ballater", 
    "billingState": "Aberdeenshire", 
    "billingCountry": "UK", 
    "billingPostCode": "AB35 5RQ", 
    "customerEmail": "deepak.chopra@mymail.com", 
    "cardholderName": "Deepak Chopra"
}

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{
    "sessionToken": "73GMJdRQdkyselgaZ8z…………………….CMc0KBpMtY",
    "expires": 1660701819
}

When you make a successful call to the Payments' Checkout token endpoint, you will receive a response with two properties: expires and sessionToken. The value shown next to the expires property is the date and time that the token will expire. This value is a Unix (Epoch) timestamp. Use this form to convert the Unix timestamp to a human-readable date.

Epoch

Step 4: Embed the Checkout Token

The checkout session token can be used with a Pay-By-Link object or with the Checkout web component that can be placed on your checkout page using an iFrame. To learn how to embed the checkout token into an iFrame, see Embed Checkout Token.

To use the token as Pay-By-Link object, set the value of the sessionToken property as the value of the token query string in your URL.

URL Syntax - https://sandbox-checkout.imbursepayments.com/?token=(sessionToken)
URL Example - https://sandbox-checkout.imbursepayments.com/?token=%2ff3kKKK...V6FmE

Step 5: Check the Payment Status

After the Financial Instrument details of your customer has been submitted to Payments, the application will communicate with the Payment Service Provider (PSP) to handle the transaction. You can check the status of the transaction by polling the APIs. Alternatively, you can also set up a Webhook to notify you every time the transaction status changes.

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Authorization: Bearer {eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1N...9UAUBNuyPN6Xg}
x-account-id: 49bder42-90d9-46b1-b120-f6b347d621a0
x-tenant-id: 60452f48-5d48-4bc0-ab6f-5cr3ee411f63
Content-Type: application/json

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{
    ...
    "direction": "DEBIT",
    "status": "INCOMPLETE",
    "customerRef": "DEEPAK_004",
    "amount": 110.00,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "country": "UK",
    "settledByDate": "2022-12-01",
    "forecastedSettlementDate": null,
    "actualSettlementDate": null,
    ...    
    "transaction": {
      ...
      "status": "PROCESSING",
      ...
    },
    "failed": null,
    "cancelled": null
}