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Elavon's eBoarding Partner API provides partners the ability to board new merchants to Elavon, which enables those merchants to accept payments online or in person. Our API automates the merchant underwriting process and reduces the time between signing a contract and processing transactions to as little as 15 minutes.

We offer 2 integration methods:
 
- **Managed (stateful) flow** provides free and easy to use eSignature functionality and agreement generation in HTML and PDF formats.

- **Unassisted (stateless) flow** provides more flexibility to control the user experience and is available to partners that have their own document eSignature capability. 

Depending on your existing UI and document signing capabilities, you and your Elavon Relationship Manager/Solutions Engineer can determine which method works best for boarding your customers. 

## Features

- Retrieve Elavon-generated unsigned merchant agreement
- Utilize Elavon e-Signature capabilities, if desired
- Board application data
- Upload supplemental documentation for merchant/business verification 
- Retrieve Elavon-generated signed merchant agreement, if applicable 
- Receive push notifications or poll for merchant application approval status
- Have point-of-sale (POS) equipment pre-configured and shipped to your merchant, if applicable 
- Receive push notifications or poll for information to program your own POS equipment, if applicable
- Receive push notifications or poll for merchant e-commerce setup information, if applicable

## Workflow

1. A merchant fills out a boarding application using the partner's UI.
2. The partner's UI connects to Elavon’s eBoarding Partner API.
3. Elavon eBoarding runs a credit check and evaluates the application.
4. If the application is approved, then the merchant will be eligible for payment processing services via point of sale terminals, mobile software, and/or online payment transactions.

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## Example use cases for partners

### Managed (stateful) flow
You already have a user interface (UI) for collecting new merchant data and preferred payment processing methods (point-of-sale equipment, e-commerce, etc.). You will utilize Elavon APIs to generate the merchant agreement, collect e-signatures, generate the signed agreement, then board the data and upload the signed application.  

### Unassisted (stateless) flow
You already have a user interface (UI) for collecting new merchant data and preferred payment processing methods (point-of-sale equipment, e-commerce, etc.), and you have software that can collect esignatures and create signed PDFs. You will use Elavon APIs to retrieve the unsigned HTML or PDF agreement, board the data, and upload the signed application. 

### eBoarding UI (SAT) flow
You do not have your own team of software developers and instead want to use Elavon's web-based tools to submit merchant applications. In this case, contact an Elavon representative.

## Getting Started 

### Step 1: Get credentials
If you've already spoken with an Elavon representative and have an assigned Elavon Relationship Manager/Solutions Engineer, contact them to request an account and credentials. 

If you are ready to begin but have not yet spoken with an Elavon representative, visit [Contact Us](https://www.elavon.com/contact-us/partnership-opportunities.html) to get started as an Elavon partner.

### Step 2: Select an integration method

You can choose to integrate using either Managed (stateful) flow or Unassisted (stateless) flow. To learn more, go to :magic-link[Integration by flow type]{id="integration-by-flow-type"}. Your Elavon Relationship Manager/Solutions Engineer can help you choose the flow that will work best for you. 

### Step 3: Test and certify your integration

Use the user acceptance test environment (```https://uat-buynow-na.elavon.net/api/```) to run acceptance tests and resolve errors so that your applications board as expected.

### Step 4: Go live

When your application passes all acceptance tests, you will receive production credentials and move to the production environment (```https://buynow.elavon.net/api/```).



Overview

Alliance Offers

Data as a Service

Invitation to Apply

Bank Holidays

Card Activation

Card Controls

Challenge-Widget

Commercial Credit Cards

Commercial Statements

Credit Card Account Details

Credit Card Accounts Overview

Credit Card Alerts

Credit Card Application Status

Credit Card APRs

Credit Card Balance Transfers

Credit Card Disputes

Credit Card Payments

Credit Card Qualified Offers

Credit Card Statements

Credit Card Transactions

Data Sharing for Marketing Purposes

Digital Wallets

Incoming Webhooks

Make a Payment - Coming Soon

Rewards Accelerator

Rewards Automatic Redemption

Rewards: Balance Summary

Rewards: Dashboard

Rewards Redemption Accounts

Rewards Redemptions

Rewards Transactions: Earned and Redeemed

Travel Notifications

User Profile

3DSecure2

CheckoutJs

Commerce SDK

Converge

Disputes Management

Dynamic Currency Conversion

eBoarding

Elavon Cloud Payments Interface

Elavon Payment Gateway

Fusebox

Hosted Payment Page

In Person Payments on Opayo

Leads

Lightbox payment modal

Online Payments on Opayo

Opayo

Opayo Direct

Opayo Forms

Opayo Reporting API

Opayo Server

Opayo Shared API

Payment Method Gateway

Payments Core 365

Simplify

viaconex

XML API

Card as a Service API

Core Banking API

Money Movement API

Reference API

Access Online Transactions

Account Transfers

Account Validation

ACH Originations

Avvance Connect

Avvance Express

Avvance Flex

Bank Information

Card as a Service

Check Payables

Corporate Account Information

Corporate Account Information 3LO

Corporate Credit Cards

Corporate Onboarding

Corporate Statements

Custody

Data Toolbox

Data Toolbox - Accounts

Data Toolbox - Documents

Data Toolbox - Transactions

Debit Card Phone Number Lookup

Disbursements via Zelle®

U.S. Bank Flexible Capital Platform

Foreign Exchange

Freight Payment Customer Profiles

Freight Payment Transactions

Instant payments

Investment Accounting

PaySmart

Payee Choice

Payee Token+

Payments Micro-front end

Payments SDK

Personal Loans

Positive Pay

Push to Card

Receivables

RTP® - Real-Time Payments

Tokenized Payments

Treasury Builder

U.S. Bank FBO Account

Virtual Account Reporting

Virtual Card Payments

Voyager Accounts

Voyager Cards

Voyager Drivers

Voyager Transactions

Voyager Vehicles

Wire Transfers

eBoarding Partner API Overview

Integration by flow type

Boarding process workflows

Main boarding elements

Passing data to board

Principal applicant

Additional shareholders

Contact information

Financial information

Card pricing

Bank account information

Billing

Fees

Payment processing equipment

Dynamic currency conversion (DCC)

Value added services

Third-party signing

Complementary API calls

API reference

Element code tables

Merchant category codes

Boarding timeouts

Push notifications

Best practices

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