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The FedNow Service is a new instant payment service developed by the Federal Reserve Banks to enable any financial institution across the U.S., to provide safe and efficient instant payment services in real time, around the clock, every day of the year.

Through financial institutions participating in the FedNow Service, businesses and individuals will be able to send and receive instant payments conveniently, and recipients will have full access to funds immediately, giving them greater flexibility to manage their money and make time-sensitive payments.

The FedNow Service can be added to your payment options to clear and settle instant payments and help with payment network resiliency through redundancy. Financial institutions and their service providers will be able to use the service as a springboard to provide innovative instant payment services to customers.

Use Cases

• Account-to-Account (A2A) Transfers: Instantly move funds between their own accounts at different financial institutions, enhancing cash flow management and providing immediate access to funds.
• Bill Payments: Send real-time bill payments, ensuring timely transactions and reducing the risk of late fees. This capability benefits service providers by offering immediate confirmation of payments.
• Instant Payroll: Send payouts, or disburse salaries instantly, allowing employees immediate access to their earnings, which is useful for on-demand payment models.

FedNow Payment Flow

1. End user submits a transaction request to the TabaPay client.
2. The TabaPay client sends a Create Transaction API request per these instructions.
3. TabaPay will send a request to the FedNow Service.
4. The FedNow service will validate the request (e.g. verify format).
5. FedNow service sends the request to the recipient's FI to seek confirmation that the receiver intends to accept the payment.
6. Confirmation response (for example the receiver might respond with an "accept").
7. The FedNow service will settle the payment. Debiting and crediting the designated master accounts for both the sender and receiver FI respectively.
8. FedNow notifies both Financial Institutions that the funds have settled. Receiver FI receives an "advice" and the SenderFI an "acknowledgement".
9. TabaPay responds to the TabaPay Client.
10. TabaPay Client notifies the end user.

How Does FedNow work?

1. Simplified Flow

TabaPay is a registered Technology Provider of Real-time payments over the FedNow network. Through FedNow, TabaPay provides our clients with the ability to conveniently send payments directly from bank accounts at participating institutions 24/7, and to receive and access funds sent to them over the FedNow network immediately.

A simplified FedNow Payment Flow can be summarized:

1. TabaPay client sends a Create Transaction push request.
2. TabaPay will forward this request to the FedNow network.
3. TabaPay will return the results of the transaction in the response (informing you if it was a successful transaction or not).

2. How to construct your API request

Request endpoint

You will be using the Create Transaction API.

Body Parameters

All ACH transactions are pulling or pushing funds to a bank account.

1. The key field for you to include is the achOption field. You would use F for FedNow
2. You would fill in the bank object in the destination account object.
3. There are other additional fields common to all transactions (e.g. amount, etc.).

What is the bank object?

The bank object is available for the sourceAccount and destinationAccount objects. It contains the following information:

1. routingNumber
   string
   required
   ABA routing transit number
2. accountNumber
   string
   required
   Bank Account Number
3. accountType
   string
   required
   Bank Account Type.
   • S Savings
   • C Checking
   • A Business Savings
   • B Business Checking
   • L Loan