ADadyen
Business lines

Create a business line

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Creates a business line.

This resource contains information about your user's line of business, including their industry and their source of funds. Adyen uses this information to verify your users as required by payment industry regulations.Adyen informs you of the verification results through webhooks or API responses.

You can create a maximum of 200 business lines per legal entity for payment processing.

Requests to this endpoint are subject to rate limits:

  • Live environments: 700 requests per 5 seconds.

  • Test environments: 200 requests per 5 seconds.

  • Failed requests are subject to a limit of 5 failures per 10 seconds.

post/businessLines

Request

  • Base URL
    https://kyc-test.adyen.com/lem/v1
  • URL
    https://kyc-test.adyen.com/lem/v1/businessLines
  • Auth
    • HTTP basic
    • or API key in header X-API-Key

Request body

capability'receivePayments' | 'receiveFromPlatformPayments' | 'issueBankAccount' required

The capability for which you are creating the business line.

Possible values: receivePayments, receiveFromPlatformPayments, issueBankAccount

industryCodestring required

A code that represents the industry of the legal entity for marketplaces or platforms. For example, 4431A for computer software stores.

industryCodeDescriptionstring

The description of the industry code.

legalEntityIdstring required

Unique identifier of the legal entity that owns the business line.

salesChannelsstring[]

A list of channels where goods or services are sold.

Possible values: pos, posMoto, eCommerce, ecomMoto, payByLink.

Required only in combination with the capability to receivePayments or receiveFromPlatformPayments.

Response

OK - the request has succeeded.

capability'receivePayments' | 'receiveFromPlatformPayments' | 'issueBankAccount' required

The capability for which you are creating the business line.

Possible values: receivePayments, receiveFromPlatformPayments, issueBankAccount

idstring required

The unique identifier of the business line.

industryCodestring required

A code that represents the industry of the legal entity for marketplaces or platforms. For example, 4431A for computer software stores.

industryCodeDescriptionstring

The description of the industry code.

legalEntityIdstring required

Unique identifier of the legal entity that owns the business line.

salesChannelsstring[]

A list of channels where goods or services are sold.

Possible values: pos, posMoto, eCommerce, ecomMoto, payByLink.

Required only in combination with the capability to receivePayments or receiveFromPlatformPayments.

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