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BankAccount.credit & BankAccount.debit -- deprecated or not?


The BalancedPayments 1.1 documentation talks about using Customers and Orders as core transaction objects, but for our application, it's not particularly necessary or useful (our model is not a marketplace of buyers and sellers). We'd just like to directly credit/debit to/from BankAccounts.

It currently works, but the credit and debit apis have been removed from the online docs. Is my project at risk unless I implement Customer and Order?


Solution

  • Those methods, themselves, are not deprecated, but marketplaces are now required to use orders. That means the order parameter needs to be supplied in those requests. Since Orders are required and Orders are created on "merchant" Customer instances, the use of Customer is also required. Orders and Customers are very useful, https://www.balancedpayments.com/account-reconciliation.

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