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Zero Balance Account must be created before creating a Payment Run

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Effective:

  • 29 April 2024 on Sandbox
  • 30 April 2024 on Live

We are continuing to improve the payment runPayment RunA list of payments created by Buyers to settle their outstanding financial obligations with their suppliers. Payment runs are typically managed by the accounts payable function within a business on a periodic basis and go through stages of creation, authorisation, funding, and execution. creation process by ensuring that a payment runPayment RunA list of payments created by Buyers to settle their outstanding financial obligations with their suppliers. Payment runs are typically managed by the accounts payable function within a business on a periodic basis and go through stages of creation, authorisation, funding, and execution. cannot be created if the Zero Balance Account was not created.

A Zero Balance Account is automatically created for each supported currency as soon as your customers completed onboarding, therefore if your customer didn't complete onboard and tried to create a payment run the API endpoint will return an HTTP 409 error ZERO_BALANCE_ACCOUNT_INVALID_STATE.

You can find more information about the Zero Balance Account and Payment Run creation in our docs.

Affected API endpoints: