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Payments & Deposits

Everything about receiving funds, settlement times, and fees.

Bank account deposit times

Find out how long it takes for the money to reflect in your bank account once the client has paid.

How to activate online payments

Step-by-step guide to set up your account and receive card, bank transfer or bank debit payments from your quotes and invoices.

Processing fees and rates

Cord Payments fees by currency and method: card and SPEI in Mexican pesos, and no Cord fee in the other currencies.

Handling disputes and chargebacks

Learn what a chargeback is and the steps you must follow to respond to or win a bank dispute.

Collect a deposit

Ask for a percentage up front on approval and collect the balance per terms.

Identity verification and beneficial owners (KYC)

What verification asks for, why it changes by country, how to declare owners with 25% or more, and what to do when a document is rejected.

Issue refunds to customers

How to refund a quote or invoice payment, fully or partially, and how to correct the tax document afterwards.

Automatic AI collections

An agent that, once credit lapses, reminds with the real link and can propose an installment plan.

Client portal and paying several invoices

One link per client with all their invoices, their balance per currency and paying several at once: how to create it, send it, rotate it and what your client sees.

Automatic payments and what happens when a charge fails

Your client saves a method in their portal and each invoice is charged on its due date: what is charged, when, how they authorize it and the retry policy by decline type.

Bank debit: SEPA, ACH, Bacs and Canadian pre-authorized debit

Collect with a debit from your client's bank account: SEPA Direct Debit in EUR (Spain, Germany and France), ACH bank debit in USD (United States), Bacs Direct Debit in GBP (United Kingdom) and pre-authorized debit in CAD (Canada). How to turn it on, how long it takes, disputes, refunds and where it is offered.

Get paid with Mercado Pago

Connect your Mercado Pago account so clients pay from the quote link: which countries it applies to, what they see, when it is marked paid, and what it does not do yet.

Cash Payment Reception

Current availability of cash payments.

Change Payout Frequency

Learn how your deposit schedule is determined.

Deposit reconciliation

Export your received payments to match deposits with your accounting.

Get paid with Bizum

How to offer Bizum in Cord so your customers in Spain pay from their bank's app.

Interest-free installments (MSI)

How to offer interest-free card installments in Cord, what they cost, and what your customer sees.

Multi-currency collections

How to quote and collect in a currency different from your accounting currency, which methods collect each currency and how the invoice declares the exchange rate.

Processing limits

How payment limits are determined and what to do when a transaction is declined.

Reasons for Declined Payments

Common bank error codes and how to fix them.

Receive international payments

Collect from clients abroad in their currency by card, bank transfer, direct debit or Mercado Pago, and invoice the sale according to the country you issue from.

Switch between bank transfer and card

What to check before trying a different payment method.

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