Pilot
Payment Pre-validation API Pilot environment
The Swift Pilot environment closely resembles the Live environment. It is intended to fully qualify your API integration.
Steps to access the Payment Pre-validation API in the Pilot environment
Place the subscription order
Make sure you are subscribed to Payment Pre-validation API.
Place order for testing in Pilot
Place the order Payment Pre-validation API for Consumers (Pilot) on Swift.com. Complete the order details by providing your BIC and implementation date from dropdowns.
Create an app for Pilot
Create a dedicated app for testing in the Pilot environment and select Payment Pre-validation API from the list of API products. Inside the app are consumer-key and consumer-secret which are the application credentials used to identify the application calling the API. After creating the app, promote the app to the Pilot environment.
Create a Certificate & assign the RBAC role for Pilot
Payment Pre-validation API supports the use of business certificates and channel certificates when signing the JWT in the authorisation API call. After creating the certificate, assign the RBAC role swift.preval!p to the certificate.
Making your first test API call in the Pilot environment
After completing the steps above, you now have the credentials required to access the Payment Pre-validation API in the Pilot environment. Refer to the authentication section to learn how to use the credentials you created above to start testing your integration with this API in Pilot.
Test Sparring Partner
We recommend testing with Swift Test Sparring Partner (TSP), loop test or test the payment pre-validation api central services. Refer to the information available in the Knowledge Centre to learn more about these options.