GoCardless makes collecting payments with Direct Debit easy.
Direct Debit is an automated payment method which allows you to pull payments from your customers’ bank accounts.
The GoCardless API is a wrapper around diverse national Direct Debit systems allowing you to collect payments everywhere with one integration.
There are three key parts to an integration with the API - you can do one, two or all three of them:
- Setting up mandates with your customers’ bank accounts
- Collecting payments against your mandates
- Staying up-to-date with webhooks / events
Alongside the API, you’ll have access to the GoCardless Dashboard which you can also use to manage your account.
This means that, for example, you could choose to add your customers through your website using an API integration, but bill them manually through the Dashboard.
We'd suggest taking a look at the following sections to get you up and running with the GoCardless API: