Data types
Some of the fields of the merchant onboarding API must follow a specific format. While these have been called out in detail in each entity section, we have also outlined general formatting in the table below for common field types.
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Country | The country code fields follow the ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 standard in uppercase. Examples: "ES", "US". |
| Currency | The currency code fields follow the ISO 4217 Alpha 3 standard in uppercase. Examples: "EUR", "USD". |
| Date | Dates are formatted using the complete date format according to the ISO 8601 standard: "YYYY-MM-DD". Example: "2015-09-01". |
| Date-time | Date-time fields combined date and time in UTC: "YYYY-MM-DDT hh:mm:ss.sss". Example: "2015-09-01T23:59:59.479". |
| id | Identifiers generated by the API are globally unique. |