Beneficiary Update Webhook event
Trigger: Update of Beneficary details following the receipt of a notification from the beneficiry’s bank (Bacs only).
Tip: Webhooks may be updated from time to time and it is important to consider the Versioning and Backward Compatibility guidelines when developing your solution. We recommend that your handler ignores new fields it is not expecting; any new fields that may be added will provide new information, which may be safely ignored.
Webhook Message Details
This Webhook has just one event type: BeneficiaryAccountUpdate.
This Webhook is only possible for Bacs (GBP) beneficiaries and is triggered when an AWACS notification is received from Bacs. |
Following a beneficiary update, when you Create a Credit Transfer payment, the 201 Created
response will include:
- The new (updated account details) in the
beneficaryAccount
object. - The old beneficiary account details in the
originalBeneficiaryAccount
object.
Webhook Event Message Details
The following table describes the details of the Webhook notification:
Parent | Parameter | Type | Mandatory/Optional | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
root | eventTimestamp | number | Mandatory | The Unix epoch timestamp |
root | eventType | string | Mandatory | BeneficiaryAccountUpdate |
root | resourceReference | string | optional | This is set to the beneficiary's name. |
root | resourceReferenceType | string | optional | This can be a business reference of the resource, useful when filtering events via the Webhooks area of the Nuapay Console. |
root | resourceUri | string | Mandatory | This is URI of the resource for RESTful API querying. Use the URI in the Retrieve Credit Transfer call. |
root | resourceType | string | Mandatory | This is the type of the resource to which the URI is related. In this case it is a Beneficiay resource. |
root | reasonCode | string | optional | Null for beneficiaries. |
root | resourceOwner | string | Mandatory | This is the identifier of the merchant resource to which this notification is linked. |
JSON Sample
The following is an example of an Incoming CT event JSON:
Headers:
POST | http://example.com/webhooks |
Content-Type: | application/json;charset=UTF-8 |
x-signature: | 123ab01d030dee864fb44cc65a3be52ae591f46cde8d14d3e72fbc3790e4a304 |
Content-Length: | 261 |
X-Request-Id: | dc645679-71a5-498d-bb29-ec027948c7c1 |
JSON Request Body
{
"eventTimestamp": 1501169079000,
"eventType": "BeneficiaryAccountUpdate",
"resourceReference": "John Smith",
"resourceReferenceType": "beneficiaryName",
"resourceUri": "/beneficiary/ybo8zayk2q",
"resourceType": "beneficiary",
"reasonCode": null,
"resourceOwner": "tc47ygrg72"
}
Tip: Webhook URIs do not include a version number. If you are attempting to retrieve a specific resource via a v2 API, please make sure to include the full
v2
path in your request.