Details
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New Feature
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.3.0
Description
This is a ticket to cover the new requirements from integration with a payment switching solution, using best practices in a push-payment real-time environment. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fa8f745cd7228a8f8418561ddadc715a3388d01656bcbc28680f86f2@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
Basically, there are a few minor changes are needed to fineract1.x to support integration with a payments hub. The payments hub will handle most of the functionality, so the changes to fineract1.x are to be minimal.
A new package will be created with new API endpoints.
The functional requirements will include:
- Get a quote
- Hold funds
- Send funds (confirmed )
Assuming customers are authenticated and using a front end solution, in the payments flow, end users (payors) get a "Request for Payment" (RfP) from a Payee and after getting a quote for the cost of that payment, they do a Payment Initiation. When they initiate the payment their checking/savings account shows an entry which is debit-amount-on-hold.
There is a further requirement around lookup values - where a new "secondary ID" is needed in the account table. That secondary ID is used for the routing address of the payee.
To further explain the intent, imagine a payments switch between two instances of fineract, the switch or "interoperable service for transfers" (IST) talks over APIs to a thin "Payments Hub" on the fineract infrastructure.
