Cheque Printing API | PaymentsNow

REST API & Webhooks

Wire cheque fulfilment into the software you already run

Connect your web or desktop application to the PaymentsNow API and every payment it generates can move to our print floor on its own — turning same-day cheque and document fulfilment into a background process your team never has to babysit.

✓Built on plain HTTPS POST calls, so it slots into virtually any language, framework, or shell script you happen to use.
✓Trigger cheque issuance and payment management entirely in code — no portal logins, no manual uploads.
✓Build and test against a full sandbox first, then promote to live when you’re confident it behaves.
✓Predictable JSON comes back on every call, ready to parse and store wherever your data lives.

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What you can automate

Endpoints for accounts, tracking, cheques, and mail

Spin up and manage merchant accounts

The “Create Merchant Account” endpoint is built for firms running payments for many companies at once.

Provision a fresh client (merchant) account per company under your umbrella
Bind one or more bank accounts to each for clean, separated cheque issuance
Attach the Signing Officer’s signature to keep every account compliant and secure

Real-time shipment webhooks

Point us at a webhook URL and we push delivery events to it the moment they happen, over HTTP POST.

Each payload carries the carrier, tracking number, status, estimated delivery, and timestamp
Delivered over HTTPS for encrypted, dependable notifications
Hardened with IP whitelisting plus User-Agent checks so only your endpoint is trusted

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Issue cheques straight from payment data

The “Upload Cheques” endpoint takes raw payment records and runs the entire issuance flow for you.

Pass custom fields when you need tailored cheque content
Already have a print-ready PDF cheque? Send it and we print and mail it as-is
Hooks neatly into the back-office systems you already operate
Generates and tracks each cheque end to end, with no manual steps
Keeps working consistently even as your internal systems evolve

Print and mail documents on rules you set

A full document API gives you fine-grained control over the whole print-and-mail lifecycle.

Drop in extra pages or content driven by your own business logic
Use “Document Type” labels to trigger conditional handling — say, stapling pages to a cheque
Verify and correct recipient addresses before anything prints
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) automates inserting and physical handling
Set the delivery method per batch with the “Send By” option for on-time arrival
Carrier tracking barcodes keep mail sorted and traceable to the door

See the list of available APIs & webhooks

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a sandbox to develop against?

Yes — a full test environment with the same endpoints as production. Build, submit test cheques, and fire webhooks end-to-end before any real money prints.

How do status updates get back to our system?

Webhooks push every lifecycle event — accepted, printed, dispatched, delivered, returned — as it happens, and the same data is queryable by REST for nightly reconciliation jobs.

How is API access secured?

Scoped keys per environment, TLS 1.3 on every call, and approval rules still apply — an API-submitted cheque can be forced through the same signing-officer gates as one entered by hand.

Cheque Printing & Mailing API