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BMO ACH Payments API

Initiates and manages U.S. ACH credit and debit payments (sending or collecting funds) with live status updates, for treasury and accounting system integrations. OAuth 2.0 plus client API key.

BMO ACH Payments API is one of 11 APIs that BMO publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Payments, ACH, and United States. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, organized into 3 resource areas, and defines 14 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.1.3.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://sandbox-open-api.bmo.com/open-banking/commercial-sb.

4 operations 4 paths 14 schemas 4 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.1.3
Base URL
https://sandbox-open-api.bmo.com/open-banking/commercial-sb
Authentication
API Key, OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
3

Authentication & Security 2

BMO ACH Payments API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as x-api-key (api-key-1). It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 3 scopes.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 POST. They span 3 resource areas: PaymentInitiation, PaymentStatus, TppACHArrangementCompany. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

PaymentInitiation 2

This is a tag for Payment Initiation - send Payments. receive PAIN001/PAIN008 (Debit/Credit) ISO request as input and return PAIN002 ISO as response after interacting with downstr…

POST
/tpp/ach/payment-initiation/customer-credit-transfer-initiation
Send Payment Credit
CreditPaymentInitiation 15 params body → 200400401403404415429500
POST
/tpp/ach/payment-initiation/customer-direct-debit-initiation
Send Payment Debit
DebitPaymentInitiation 15 params body → 200400401403404415429500
PaymentStatus 1

This is a tag for PaymentStatus which enquiry sends CAMT005 ISO JSON Request standard messages and enquires and responds back with PAIN002 message structure after querying matchin…

POST
/tpp/ach/payment-initiation/get-transaction-status/get
Obtain Payment Status
PaymentStatus 15 params body → 200400401403404415429500
TppACHArrangementCompany 1
POST
/tpp/ach/customer-access-entitlement/commercial-user-access-arrangement/get
Get Company ID List
ACHCompanyIDList 15 params body → 200400401403404415429500

Schemas 14

The contract defines 14 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Problem (6 properties), Result (4 properties), LinkedCompanies (3 properties), AdditionalDetail (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

RequestPayload
object
1 property
ResponsePayload
object
2 properties 2 required
SECURE
object
2 properties 2 required
Result
object
4 properties 2 required
ResultDetails
object
2 properties
ACHCompanyIDListRequest
object
1 property 1 required
ACHCompanyIDListResponse
object
2 properties 2 required
UserEntity
object
2 properties 1 required
LinkedCompanies
object
3 properties 3 required
Consent
object
1 property 1 required
CompanyResult
object
3 properties 2 required
CompanyIDList
object
2 properties 2 required
Problem
object
6 properties 4 required
AdditionalDetail
object
An object containing detailed Additional information.
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

bmo-ach-payments-openapi.json Raw ↑

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