Overview

What is Ansa?

Ansa's payment platform lets merchants and marketplaces launch a stored value program, AKA closed-loop wallets. A customer can load funds into their wallet from a debit/credit card or bank transfer, and then pay from the wallet later on like with the Starbucks balance. Closed-loop means that once funds have been added, customers can not withdraw the funds.

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Business Impact

With Ansa, you can drive new revenue opportunities, boost retention, and unlock significant advanced cash flow.

Our API and web platform covers all aspects of a stored value wallet program, including:

• enabling customers to add funds via integration with your existing payment processor
• payouts to you from spent customer funds
• core ledger tracking all money movement and digital balance spend
• accounting and financial report generation
• marketing integrations
• refunds (concession or regular)
• incentives engine to drive adoption and repeat usage
• in-store payments for physical store transactions
• product analytics and warehousing to understand user activity

Integrating with Ansa

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You can use Ansa's sandbox environment to better explore the platform's functionality and core concepts.

For access, please contact [email protected] or your solutions engineer.

Ansa is designed to be quick to integrate, with an available sandbox to test the platform's functionality. The overall structure of the technical integration involves:

• Connecting your Ansa account with your payment processor to allow top-ups from debit/credit card
• Creating an Ansa wallet for users in your system
• Connecting payment methods (either via your payment processor or via our PCI compliant inbound proxy)
• Updating your checkout flow to allow users to top up, configure auto reload, and use their wallet balance to pay

For quick prototyping or production use, we distribute native iOS and Android SDKs to let you get set up in minutes.

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Mobile UI SDK

Interested in using our suite of mobile UI components to integrate into your app for quick launches?

We're currently building out our Ansa UI SDK – reach out to [email protected] to learn more and help us as an early tester.

Working with the API

Ansa's API is designed around core REST principles with Open API. To better understand how different entities interact with each other, it's helpful to understand our core data model concepts.

Architectural principles

1. Be consistent and auditable. Ansa's core ledger sits at the heart of our platform. Given the high stakes of handling your customers' and your funds, it is important that our platform is accurate, transparent, and resilient to failure.
2. Built to scale. Whether you are processing hundreds of transactions a week to millions, our transaction APIs are designed to handle throughput and scale with concurrent load. Ansa's platform also offers real-time customer balance and a performant webhooks architecture.

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Need Help?

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at [email protected].