Getting started with Ansa

Create an account

1. Create your merchant account
   Your implementation manager will set up an Ansa account for you. If you don’t have an implementation manager yet, please contact [email protected]
2. Save API credentials
   Your implementation manager will provide your secret key securely. Use the Ansa Portal to generate additional secret keys as needed. Your publishable key is available in the Ansa Portal, while the secret keys are not visbile.

Integration Milestones

You are now ready to start writing your implementation! If you’re creating a mobile app, please visit our SDK documentation. The guide below indicates key API touch points.

1. Create a customer
   Create an Ansa customer using the create customer API.

2. Tokenize your payment data
   Use this guide to determine your tokenization strategy for customer payment data.

3. Create a payment method
   Create an Ansa payment method and attach it to the Ansa customer that you created using the create payment method API.

4. Add funds to a customer balance
   Add funds to a customer balance using the add balance API.

5. Make payment with customer balance
   Use balance from a customer balance using the use balance API.

6. Refund a customer payment
   You may refund a payment made from the customer balance using the refund to balance API or refund funds added to a balance to the original payment method using the refund to payment method API.

7. Incentivize your customers
   Create an incentive campaign with Ansa, own incentive logic yourself an add incentive funds to a customer wallet on your schedule

Data migration

Discuss data migration strategy with the Ansa team
Ansa supports migration of existing customer accounts, customer balances and stored payment methods - via both file and API. In order to have a seamless integration and avoid any disruptions to your service, it's crucial to develop a data migration plan that's customized to your requirements. Your implementation manager will guide you through the process.

Go Live

Once your implementation is complete - just switch over to production API keys and your implementation to production endpoints. Ansa is here to help strategize a roll out plan and help monitor go-live traffic.

Settlement

Ansa settles to your pay out bank account. We also generate transaction and overview level reports for each settlement for easier reconciliation. For more details, read the payouts guide.