Creating a Collection Scheme

If you are need to collect funds from your customer then your Tenant will need at least one Collection Scheme set up. Collection Schemes define the rules around which payment methods, such as Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, etc, are presented to your customers.

For more information on Collection Schemes, see the Collection Schemes in Getting Started.

Prerequisites

In addition to familiarity with the Core Concepts, you’ll need the following:

• A valid Access Token derived from a Tenant API Key
• The appId of an App you have previously installed that you want to add to this Collection Scheme.

Create the Collection Scheme

Using your Access Token we can create a new Collection Scheme.

By default your new Collection Scheme will be in draft only. It will need to be Published before it can be used for collecting money.

Request

Use the following request to create a new Collection Scheme.

Note: The scheme we are creating has the following properties:

• The Rules are filtering for EUR, any country, and a value between 1 and 1000.
• The available payments methods will be from the BRAINTREE_SDK App.

curl --location --request POST "https://sandbox-api.imbursepayments.com/v1/schemes/collect" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer {access-token}" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data "{
	    \"name\": \"Motor Insurance - EUROPE\",
      \"code\": "",
      \"rules\": [
        {
          \"priority\": 0,
          \"currencies\": [
            \"EUR\"
          ],
          \"countries\": [],
          \"highValueInclusive\": 1000,
          \"lowValueInclusive\": 1,
          \"configurations\": [
            {
              \"priority\": 0,
              \"appId\": \"BRAINTREE_SDK\",
              \"excludedPaymentMethods\": [ "" ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
  ]

Response

The schemeId property will be the id of your newly created Collection Scheme.

{
  "schemeId": "8a7f806f-782a-498d-9627-b742f0a89c40",
  "publishedDraftId": "",
  "drafts": [
    {
      "draftId": "5a8b5f84-a799-44ba-96c2-8006daa7088b",
      "name": "Motor Insurance - EUROPE",
      "code": "",
      "rules": [
        {
          "priority": 0,
          "currencies": [
            "EUR"
          ],
          "countries": [],
          "highValueInclusive": 1000,
          "lowValueInclusive": 1,
          "configurations": [
            {
              "priority": 0,
              "appId": "BRAINTREE_SDK",
              "availablePaymentMethods": [
                "VISA", "MASTERCARD", "DISCOVER", "MAESTRO", "AMERICAN-EXPRESS", "PAYPAL"
              ],
              "excludedPaymentMethods": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Publishing the Draft

After creating a new Scheme we need to Publish the draft that was added.

In the previous step, the response included a drafts collection. We’ll use the draftId from the first item in the collection when we call the Publish function.

Request

Call the endpoint below, replacing YOUR_SCHEME_ID and YOUR_DRAFT_ID with your actual values.

POST https://sandbox-api.imburse.net/v1/schemes/collect/YOUR_SCHEME_ID/drafts/YOUR_DRAFT_ID/publish

Using the example response from the previous step we will call the Publish endpoint with our values:

POST https://sandbox-api.imburse.net/v1/schemes/collect/8a7f806f-782a-498d-9627-b742f0a89c40/drafts/5a8b5f84-a799-44ba-96c2-8006daa7088b/publish

Response

You will see that the publishedDraftId property is now referencing the draft we created earlier.

{
  "schemeId": "8a7f806f-782a-498d-9627-b742f0a89c40",
  "publishedDraftId": "5a8b5f84-a799-44ba-96c2-8006daa7088b",
  "drafts": [
    {
      "draftId": "5a8b5f84-a799-44ba-96c2-8006daa7088b",
      "name": "Motor Insurance - EUROPE",
      "code": "",
      "rules": [
        {
          "priority": 0,
          "currencies": [
            "EUR"
          ],
          "countries": [],
          "highValueInclusive": 1000,
          "lowValueInclusive": 1,
          "configurations": [
            {
              "priority": 0,
              "appId": "BRAINTREE_SDK",
              "availablePaymentMethods": [
                "VISA", "MASTERCARD", "DISCOVER", "MAESTRO", "AMERICAN-EXPRESS", "PAYPAL"
              ],
              "excludedPaymentMethods": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

What’s Next?

• Creating a Payout Scheme