Change Log

Occasionally, new resources, fields, or possible values will be added to the existing fields the Payconiq APIs. All changes are listed below.

Release Notes – November 2023

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Included a note to the PQBC EXT onboarding instructions that the infrastructure supporting the External build is switched off each day from 21h30(CET) to 6h00 (CET) and during the weekends from Friday 21h30 (CET) until Monday 6h00 (CET).

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Removed Payconiq Test Bank app link for both iOS and Android devices as it will not longer be required to link bank account to PQBC EXT app.

Release Notes – October 2023

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Included Payconiq Test Bank app link to link the bank account to PQBC EXT app.

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Updated iOS and Android app links for PQBC EXT app.

Release Notes – September 2023

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Updated SMS code for PQBC EXT app. Users should enter the SMS code 123456 to onboard the app.

• Refund API

  Included new Refund statuses: PENDING, PROCESSING, REFUNDED, FAILED.

Release Notes – June 2023

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Added information on linking a bank account to the app.

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Included new test cards to onboard PQBC EXT app.

Release Notes – May 2023

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Updated Re-onboarding instructions.

• Users will receive code on their EU phone number and email address to onboard the PQBC EXT app.

• Testers can now contact [email protected] for test app related questions.

Release Notes – April 2023

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Swagger Definition

  Removed Swagger Definition file.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Refund API

  Included Refund Remittance information.

Release Notes – March 2023

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Updated Payconiq by Bancontact EXT app link for Android device.

Release Notes – September 2022

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Refund API

  Included a note: IBANs for payments done via Payconiq by Bancontact app is only available one or two days after the payment.

Release Notes – August 2022

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq EXT App

  Removed onboarding instructions for Payconiq EXT app as it is no longer functional.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Invoice Product

  Included a note: The combination of amount, reference, and description should always be unique. If not, the QR code could be considered paid.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Refund API

  Added refund information for 3C and 4C merchants.

Release Notes – June 2022

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Refund API

  Included information on Retrying a refund request.

Release Notes – April 2022

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq Test app

  Updated PQBC EXT app onboarding instructions with a new BNPPF Bancontact card.

Release Notes – March 2022

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Gmail and Hotmail email addresses are no longer supported.

• Included Re-onboarding instructions.

Release Notes – November 2021

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq Test app

  Included onboarding procedure for Payconiq EXT and Payconiq by Bancontact EXT app

Release Notes – September 2021

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Updated the link to implement universal links for iOS app.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Updated Logos, sample QR code for Receipt, Top-up and Invoice products.

Release Notes – July 2021

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Removed the link for Code snippets for Java and PHP programming languages on how to verify Payconiq signature.

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Removed information on Migrating from V2 to V3 and Certificate keys.

Release Notes – June 2021

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Custom Online

  Removed payment statuses: TIMEDOUT, CONFIRMED.

• Included new payment statuses: AUTHORIZATION_FAILED, EXPIRED, IDENTIFIED, PENDING.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Merchant callback

  Included sample signature and response body for callback.

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Updated the onboarding instructions file for Payconiq EXT app and Payconiq by Bancontact EXT app.

Release Notes – January 2021

Updates to Payconiq API

• Void payment

  Included Happy and Unhappy payment flows.

Updates to Payconiq API

• Terminal and Display

  Updated Process flow and Prerequisites.

Updates to Payconiq API

• Updated Process flow and prerequisites for Custom Online product and App2App.

Updates to Payconiq Documentation

• Payconiq By Bancontact App

  Included link for Enrollment on Payconiq by Bancontact test app

Updates to Payconiq API

• Checkout Page

  Included information on process flow for merchant checkout and Payconiq checkout page for custom online and App2App.

Updates to Payconiq API

• Removed Payconiq bulking V1 information.

Release Notes – December 2020

Updates to Payconiq API documentation

• Replaced productProfileId term with PaymentProfileId in Static QR sticker, Invoice, Top-up.

Updates to Payconiq API documentation

• Merchant callback

  Replaced merchantProfileId with PaymentProfileId in the response body of merchant callback.

Updates to Payconiq API

• Updated Process flow and prerequisites for Custom Online product and App2App.

Release Notes – October 2020

• Removed information on Instore-Receipt feature.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Invoice

  Updated Invoice product with deeplinks, remittance information and new product flow.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs

• Custom Online

  Included Checkout page payment flow for 3C and 4C merchants.

• New Field: returnUrl

  returnUrl field is mandatory if merchants and partners wants to use checkout web page flow.

Release of new Payconiq Payment APIs

• Online - Checkout Flow Online

  Consumer can now pay online via checkout web page hosted by Payconiq.

Release Notes – September 2020

Updates to Payconiq API documentation

• Updated branding guidelines for Payconiq by Bancontact.

Updates to Payconiq Payments APIs

• Removed information on Payconiq Bulking for V2.

Updates to Payconiq Payments APIs

• Reconciliation API

  Included Reconciliation API for merchants and partners who have subscribed to Payconiq Bulking V2.

Release Notes - August 2020

• Added information on Payconiq Bulking for V2 and instructions for migration request from V1 to V2.

Release Notes - July 2020

Updates to Payconiq Payments APIs

• Included information on Loyalty integration, callback headers, request body, response body and response status codes.

• Included new payment statuses Terminal and Display: PENDING_MERCHANT_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, VOIDED.

Release of new feature: Terminal and Display

• New feature: Void Payment

  Void flow feature to enable payment terminals to stay in the lead of payments.

Release Notes – May 2020

Updates to Payconiq Payment API – Authentication

• Swagger API

  Merchants can now choose to receive the payment callback via TLS One-way or TLS Two-way Encryption.

Release Notes - July 2019

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs - Swagger API

• Swagger API

  The swagger APIs have been added to the documentation.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs - Online Payments Timeout

• Online Payments Timeout

  The timeout settings for online payments has been increased from 2 minutes to 20 minutes. Users now have a longer period to scan QR codes for online payments.

Updates to Payconiq API documentation

• Brand Guide for Online Payments

  A brand guide for online payments has been added to the Payconiq Developer Portal. You can find it here.

Release Notes - May 2019

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs - Callbacks

• Callback retries supported

  A retry policy has now been enabled for all Payconiq callbacks.

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs - Static QR Sticker Product

• New product: Static QR

  A new product has been added which is the Integrated Static QR Sticker. Merchants can now offer an integrated Static QR solution to consumers to pay in store. The use of a POS Id mandatory for the product to work.

Release Notes - April 2019

Release of new Payconiq Partner Integration.

Partners can integrate Pyaconiq via the Payment Service Porivder APIs to offer Payconiq to its Submerchants.

Payment Service Provider APIs

• New API endpoint to create partner payments.

Release Notes - March 2019

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs (V3).

• New Field: Callback Header

  signature - A signature is now included in the header of the callback. This represents a Payconiq digitally signed content using JSON data structures and base64url encoding which makes up the JSON Web Signature (JWS).

Updates to Payconiq Payment APIs (V2).

• Optional Field: Widget V2

  signature - The signature in the V2 Widget is now optional. You do not have to set this while setting up your widget.

Release Notes - February 2019

Release of new Payconiq Payment APIs (V3).

The payments V3 API is used by merchants and partners to facilitate Payconiq payments. The Payconiq Payments API V3 takes advantage of Payconiq’s new payment processing platform which allows Payconiq to offer more products and features in shorter development times.

Features of Payment V3

The main features of the payments V3 APIs include:

• Support for 3 new products. Invoice, Receipt & Top-up

• Changes to Create Payment API

• Changes to Get Payment Details API

• Changes to Get Payment List API

• Callback Request Changes

• Changes to the Payconiq Widget

• Added endpoint to get IBAN for refund.

• Changes to Error Objects

Release Notes - February 2019

Enhancements to the Payconiq API Version 2. (V2)

• Callback retries not supported

  The retry policy on Payconiq callbacks are not supported anymore. Payconiq sends a callback only once per payment.

• Updated Field Length: Webhook id in Widget

  webhookId - This field has been updated with with the field length restriction of 35 characters.

• Updated Field Length: description in Create Payments API

  description - This field has been updated with with the field length restriction of 140 characters.

• Updated Field Length: Exteranl reference id in Create Payments API

  externalRefId - This field has been updated with with the field length restriction of 35 characters.

• New Feature: Payconiq Bulking

  It is now possible to enable bulking of transactions for your Payconiq integration via the Payconiq APIs.

  The bulkId is a parameter which can be set and used to reference a bulk batch payment. If not set, bulking is done based on the IBAN.

  The bulkId can be set when creating a transaction and is returned in the details of a transaction, if set.

• Removed Status: Payconiq Callback & Get Transaction Details

  CANCELED_BY_MERCHANT - This field has been removed as a status from the Payconiq callback request and from the Get Transaction Details response. CANCELED is returned for both merchant and consumer canceled transactions. Pleae treat a transaction as canclled whether it was done by the merchant or consumer.

Release Notes - August 2018

Enhancements to the Payconiq API Version 2. (V2)

• New Field: Get Transaction Details Response

  endToEndId - The end to end Id of the transaction. This field is the same Id which is present on the bank statement of the merchant or partner for reconciliation purposes.

• New Field: Create Transaction Response

  qrUrl - URL which automatically generates a Payconiq QR code once invoked.

Release Notes - July 2018

Enhancements to the Payconiq API Version 2. (V2)

• Authentication: Support for new API Keys

  There is support for new API keys which do not expire. With these keys you do not have to replace keys that have been assiged. Existing JWT tokens will continue to work.

• API Endpoints: Changes to Transaction and Refund Details

  There have been changes to the transaction and refund details. These changes were necessary to comply with GDPR regulations. Kindly check the API documentation for latest json structure.