China

Call Enable a capability API to select your declarant and submit your request to enable China local transfers, and specify transfer_cny_local in the request URL.

Provide the following parameters in your request:

• entity_type: The type of entity of your preferred declarant.
• id: Enter transfer_cny_local.

If the declarant is an individual:

• person_id: ID of your legal representative or beneficial owner, which can be found by calling Retrieve account details API.
• contact_email: Email for the individual.
• bank_details: Details of a bank account in mainland China owned by this individual.

If the declarant is a business:

• economic_category_code: The economic category code of your business.
• is_special_economic_zone: Whether your business is registered in a Special Economic Zone in China.
• special_economic_zone_business_type: If it is in a Special Economic Zone, identify the zone type by entering a 3-digit code.
• contact_email: Email for the individual.
• bank_details: Details of a bank account in mainland China owned by this business.

If you are registered as a platform account, you can call this endpoint on behalf of your connected accounts by specifying the open ID in the x-on-behalf-of header.

After submitting an Enable a capability API request, you should receive PENDING in the status parameter within the response. You will receive an updated status within 0-2 business days, with most successful requests taking around 2 hours. You can also subscribe to Capability webhook events to receive notifications in case of any status transitions. To check if your capability has been enabled, call Get capability by ID API and specify transfer_cny_local in the request URL. Listed below are the possible statuses after you request to enable China local transfers.

If your request is rejected with a status of DISABLED, it is due to entering the incorrect information, such as mismatching bank details (including phone number). It is also possible that the ID associated with your declarant is not a Chinese national ID, or is expired. The status may also become DISABLED when your declarant turns 70.

If you are registered as a platform account, you can call this endpoint on behalf of your connected accounts by specifying the open ID in the x-on-behalf-of header.

Call Upload order items API to increase transfer limit for China local transfers. You can submit order information from 1 item up to a maximum of 500 items.

• When you submit multiple order items, it is possible that only some of them pass validation. If you wish to have any order items that pass validation rules to be accepted and used toward increasing your transfer limit, set the allow_partial_success query parameter in the endpoint URL to true. If you wish for the entire request to be rejected so you may adjust the order item details and reattempt submission, set the parameter to false or null.
• Set the type query parameter to CNY_INBOUND.

Provide the following parameters in your request:

• category: The order category must be goods_trade_online for both B2C e-commerce goods trade and B2B e-commerce orders.
• currency: The three-letter ISO 4217 currency code for the order currency.
• item_name: A readable name of the item sold.
• item_quantity: The quantity of the item (should be an integer).
• item_unit_price: The unit price of the item.
• item_url: URL of the item. You can provide a link to the product page for e-commerce goods trade. The domain of this Item URL should match the one you provided at onboarding. Reach out to your Accout Manager if you wish to submit additional domains for approval.
• line_total: The total amount for the line items. This must match with item_quantity and item_unit_price.
• order_datetime: Order date time in ISO 8601 date-time format, no more than 350 days old.
• order_id: The unique ID for the order. This should be the order ID assigned by the e-commerce marketplace or your ERP/other softwares. For multiple items sharing the same order_id, submit all of them in a single request.
• shipment_provider: Name of the logistics provider.
• shipment_tracking_number: Tracking number issued by the logistics provider (5 to 35 characters).

Upon successful upload of order information without errors, you will receive a 200 (OK) response with an empty response body.

To retrieve your available transfer limit for China local transfers, call Get transfer or deposit limit API and specify the type query parameter to CNY_INBOUND in the endpoint URL.

Only orders dated in the past 350 days may count towards your transfer limit, which will reduce as orders expire. To retrieve information about the expiring transfer limit, call Get expiring transfer or deposit limit API and specify the type query parameter to CNY_INBOUND in the endpoint URL. The response will return the available order amount that is due for expiry together with the expiry date. This allows you to schedule your transfers to utilize orders before they expire.