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BMO EFT Payments API

Initiates Canadian Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) credit and debit payments with live status updates and batch support (up to 50 payments), for business system integration. OAuth 2.0 plus client API key.

BMO EFT 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, EFT, and Canada. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, organized into 4 resource areas, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 2.2.5.

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

4 operations 4 paths 2 schemas 4 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
2.2.5
Base URL
https://sandbox-open-api.bmo.com/open-banking/commercial-sb
Authentication
API Key, OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
4

Authentication & Security 2

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

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 POST. They span 4 resource areas: Send Payment Credit, Send Payment Debit, Obtain Payment Status, Obtain Service Agreement List. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Send Payment Credit 1

Payment credit initiation which receives PAIN.001 ISO request as input and return PAIN.002 ISO as response

POST
/tpp/eft/payment-initiation/customer-credit-transfer-initiation
Send Payment Credit
CustomerCreditTransferInitiation 10 params body → 200400401403404415429500
Send Payment Debit 1

Payment credit initiation which receives PAIN.008 ISO request as input and return PAIN.002 ISO as response

POST
/tpp/eft/payment-initiation/customer-direct-debit-initiation
Send Payment Debit
CustomerDebitTransferInitiation 10 params body → 200400401403404415429500
Obtain Payment Status 1

Payment List which receives CAMT.005 ISO request as input and return PAIN.002 ISO as response.

POST
/tpp/eft/payment-initiation/get-transaction-status/get
Obtain Payment Status
GetTransactionStatus 10 params body → 200400401403404415429500
Obtain Service Agreement List 1

Service agreement search which receives CustomerEntityId (proprietary) as input and return CustomerAgreementInfoReport (proprietary) as response

POST
/tpp/eft/customer-access-entitlement/commercial-user-access-arrangement/get
Obtain Service Agreement List
GetServiceAgreementList 10 params body → 200400401403404415429500

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Problem (5 properties), SECURE (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SECURE
object
1 property
Problem
object
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

bmo-eft-payments-openapi.json Raw ↑

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BMO Account Information API
BMO ACH Payments API
BMO Wire Payments (U.S.) API
BMO Wire Payments (Canada) API
BMO Instant Payments (Interac) API
BMO Image Retrieval API
BMO Authorize & Token API
BMO Client Data Encryption Key API
BMO Push Notification API
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