4. Create a Payment Order

Now we can create a payment order to send the counterparty $10 over ACH. As we mentioned, you will use your internal account ID as the originating_account_id and the counterparty's external account ID as the receiving_account_id.

You can see additional sample requests for payment orders here.

curl --request POST \
  -u ORGANIZATION_ID:API_KEY \
  --url https://app.moderntreasury.com/api/payment_orders \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "type": "ach",
    "amount": 1000,
    "direction": "credit",
    "currency": "USD",
    "originating_account_id": "0f8e3719-3dfd-4613-9bbf-c0333781b59f",
    "receiving_account_id": "5acec2ef-987b-4260-aa97-b719eeb0a8d5"
  }'

This is the response you will see. It contains the ID of the payment order, c5f4009c-bdd6-4cc1-84b2-17974ac9e77a, as well as additional details about it.

{
  "id": "c5f4009c-bdd6-4cc1-84b2-17974ac9e77a",
  "object": "payment_order",
  "type": "ach",
  "amount": 1000,
  "direction": "credit",
  "originating_account_id": "0f8e3719-3dfd-4613-9bbf-c0333781b59f",
  "receiving_account": {
    "id": "5acec2ef-987b-4260-aa97-b719eeb0a8d5",
    "object": "external_account",
    "account_type": "checking",
    "party_name": "Kenner, Bach & Ledeen",
    "party_type": null,
    "party_address": null,
    "account_details": [
      {
        "id": "81a7cd32-39f5-4f0c-873f-4d9137ec9cd9",
        "object": "account_detail",
        "account_number": "123456789",
        "account_number_type": "other",
        "created_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z",
        "updated_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z"
      }
    ],
    "routing_details": [
      {
        "id": "5ceb251f-0235-48a2-81cb-0c668f5ee81b",
        "object": "routing_detail",
        "payment_type": null,
        "routing_number": "121141822",
        "routing_number_type": "aba",
        "created_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z",
        "updated_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z"
      }
    ],
    "created_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z",
    "updated_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z"
  },
  "receiving_account_id": "5acec2ef-987b-4260-aa97-b719eeb0a8d5",
  "receiving_account_type": "external_account",
  "accounting_category_id": null,
  "currency": "USD",
  "effective_date": "2018-11-19",
  "priority": "normal",
  "description": null,
  "statement_descriptor": null,
  "remittance_information": null,
  "metadata": {},
  "status": "approved",
  "counterparty_id": "37ba4454-dd33-4aa0-8906-0e2e4103e45c",
  "transaction_ids": [],
  "charge_bearer": null,
  "foreign_exchange_indicator": null,
  "foreign_exchange_contract": null,
  "nsf_protected": false,  
  "created_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-11-09T00:11:07Z"
}