Overview

Wire payments are fund transfers done electronically across a network of banks or transfer agencies. The direction of wire payment is always Credit, moving funds from the Unit account to the counterparty account.

Once you create a wire payment, Unit will process it immediately, and a Wire Transaction will be created.

Wire payments may be subject to additional review, authorization, and approval actions, based on risk parameters defined by your bank partner. The Pending Review status indicates that a wire payment requires manual action by Unit, you, or your bank partner, before the payment can be processed and sent. For more information about required actions for wires - please review our Outgoing Wire Payment Workflow Guide.

caution

Wires are typically used to move large amounts of money. Wires are final and cannot be disputed - once the funds are sent, they cannot be recouped. For that reason, Unit highly recommends that you re-authenticate the customer before a wire is sent. The best practice includes:

1. Re-authenticate using username and password
2. Authenticate the customer using OTP
3. Mobile: Authenticate the customer using Biometric Authentication

note

Wire payments are not enabled by default. Wires are subject to a minimum payment amount and a callback threshold that is determined by your bank partner. Please contact Unit if you would like to enable this functionality. Before going live with wires, you must provide a designated email address for your organization to receive automated notifications of required actions for wires.

Create a Wire payment

Wire payments are fund transfers done electronically across a network of banks or transfer agencies. The direction of wire payment is always Credit, moving funds from the Unit account to the counterparty account.

Once you create a wire payment, Unit will process it immediately, and a Wire Transaction will be created.

caution

Wires are typically used to move large amounts of money. Wires are final and cannot be disputed - once the funds are sent, they cannot be recouped. For that reason, Unit highly recommends that you re-authenticate the customer before a wire is sent. The best practice includes:

1. Re-authenticate using username and password
2. Authenticate the customer using OTP
3. Mobile: Authenticate the customer using Biometric Authentication

note

Wire payments are not enabled by default, and are subject to a minimum payment amount that is determined by the partner bank. Please contact Unit if you would like to enable this functionality.

Verb	POST
Url	https://api.s.unit.sh/payments
Required Scope	payments-write or wire-payments-write
Data Type	wirePayment
Timeout (Seconds)	5

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
amount	integer	The amount (in cents).
description	string	Payment description (maximum of 50 characters), this will show up on statement of the counterparty.
counterparty	Wire Counterparty	The party on the other side of the Wire payment.
idempotencyKey	string	Optional. See Idempotency.
tags	object	Optional. See Tags. Tags that will be copied to any transaction that this payment creates (see Tag Inheritance).

Relationships

Name	Type	Description
account	JSON:API Relationship	The Deposit Account originating the payment.

Example Request:

curl -X POST 'https://api.s.unit.sh/payments'
-H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json'
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}'
--data-raw '{
  "data": {
    "type": "wirePayment",
    "attributes": {
      "amount": 200,
      "direction": "Credit",
      "description": "Wire payment",
      "counterparty": {
        "name": "April Oniel",
        "routingNumber": "812345678",
        "accountNumber": "1000000001",
        "address": {
          "street": "20 Ingram St",
          "city": "Forest Hills",
          "state": "CA",
          "postalCode": "11375",
          "country": "US"
        }
      }
    },
    "relationships": {
      "account": {
        "data": {
          "type": "depositAccount",
          "id": "10000"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}'

Response

Response is a JSON:API document.

Example Response:

{
  "data": {
    "type": "wirePayment",
    "id": "1135",
    "attributes": {
      "createdAt": "2021-08-30T12:19:18.639Z",
      "amount": 200,
      "direction": "Credit",
      "description": "Wire payment",
      "counterparty": {
        "name": "April Oniel",
        "routingNumber": "812345678",
        "accountNumber": "1000000001",
        "address": {
          "street": "20 Ingram St",
          "city": "Forest Hills",
          "state": "CA",
          "postalCode": "11375",
          "country": "US"
        }
      },
      "status": "Pending"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "account": {
        "data": {
          "type": "account",
          "id": "10000"
        }
      },
      "customer": {
        "data": {
          "type": "customer",
          "id": "10000"
        }
      },
      "customers": {
        "data": [
          {
            "type": "customer",
            "id": "10000"
          }
        ]
      },
      "transaction": {
        "data": {
          "type": "transaction",
          "id": "4"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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Receiving a wire payment

You can receive wire (Fedwire) payments into any deposit account. To do so, you may provide the routing number and account number to trusted third parties. These numbers are both attributes of any Deposit Account.

Received wire payments are processed automatically. You can get notified on them by listening to the transaction.created webhook and inspecting the payload for a Wire Transaction.

As an example, receiving a wire payment in the amount of $4,000 when the balance is $0 will automatically result in a balance increase. Two transactions will be created: one Wire Transaction and one associated Fee Transaction (if the fee is non-zero).

Receiving International Wires

Unit supports the ability to receive international wires.

Receiving international wires has compliance implications. As such, it is only enabled for specific use cases. Please contact Unit if you need to receive international wires as part of your product.

Possible Wire rejection Reasons

When creating a Wire payment, it may be rejected due to the following reasons:

Reason	Description
AccountFrozen	The counterparty account is frozen.
SuspectedFraud	The payment is suspected to be fraudulent.
InsufficientFunds	The available balance isn’t enough to cover the value of the wire.
Invalid Routing Number	The counterparty routing number is not valid.
Wire Rejected	The counterparty rejected the wire payment.
AccountClosed	The counterparty account has been closed.
ClientRequest	The client has requested the wire payment to be rejected.