Make a Payment

To enable custom payment flows, the required payment channel can be selected by setting the channel attribute to one of the following combinations:

• ["new_payments_platform"] - for faster payments 24/7/365
• ["direct_entry"] - for slower traditional payments
• ["new_payments_platform", "direct_entry"] - enables automatic channel switching if a payment fails on the NPP

We now require supplying an Idempotency-Key header when performing this request to ensure you can safely retry the action in case of an issue. If the header value is different to one provided previously, we will be treating a request as a new operation which may lead to duplicate payments. To understand more on how to make idempotent requests, please refer to our Idempotent requests guide.