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Add Funds to your Balance

Overview

Card products have an underlying financial account called the product funding account. Like all financial accounts, the product funding account has its own associated set of ledgers. The ledgers for your product funding account differ based on your card product's vertical.

Funding your product funding account differs for live and test environments:

  • Live environment: Your product funding account has an account and routing number, and may be funded via wire transfer from an external bank account.
  • Test environment: You can Simulate Funding your Balance via Wire Transfer to test your integration.

Your product funding account's role depends on your card product vertical. The following table provides an overview of each card product vertical and its associated product funding account role:

Card Product VerticalProduct Funding Account Role
Prepaid debitCovers negative balances in account holder financial accounts and issues provisional credits
ChargeBacks the line of credit issued to financial accounts
Secured chargeBacks the line of credit issued to financial accounts
FleetBacks the line of credit issued to financial accounts
AP automationProvides funds to account holder financial accounts via funds load
PrepaidProvides funds to account holder financial accounts via funds load
PayrollProvides payroll advance, covers negative balances in account holder financial accounts, and issues provisional credits

Transfer methods

The speed and cost of transfer methods varies. The following table outlines the transfer methods available for product funding accounts, and the speed of each method:

Transfer MethodSpeed
Wire transferSame business day
Internal Highnote transferInstant

Find your product funding account ID

Note: To fund your product funding account in the live environment, you will initiate a wire transfer outside of Highnote. This does not require knowing your product funding account ID.

To fund your product funding account using an internal Highnote transfer or to simulate a wire transfer in the test environment, you must use your product funding account ID.

You can use the following query to find your product funding account ID using the Highnote API. In the response payload, the ID in the ProductFundingFinancialAccountFeature field is your product funding account ID:

Simulate a wire transfer

Warning: The Highnote test environment lets you explore the platform features and functionality. It is intended for experimenting, building integrations, and training your team.

To ensure the security of your real-world data, please do not use production data in the test environment. Production data includes sensitive information like customer details, financial data, or personally identifiable information (PII).

Use only dummy or test data explicitly created for testing purposes in the test environment.

In the test environment, you can simulate a wire transfer to fund your product funding account using the following mutation:

Find wire transfers

You can use a node query to find incoming and outgoing wire transfers. The direction of a wire transfer is defined as follows:

  • Incoming: Money is coming into a Highnote financial account via wire transfer.
  • Outgoing: Money is leaving a Highnote financial account via wire transfer.

Incoming wire transfers

Use the following query to find an incoming wire transfer:

Outgoing wire transfers

Use the following query to find an outgoing wire transfer:

Find wire transfer reversals

Wire transfer reversals occur when a wire transfer has been reversed by Highnote's support team. In the event of a wire transfer reversal, a memo is left on the wire transfer to state the reason for the reversal. The direction of a wire transfer reversal is defined as follows:

  • Incoming: An incoming wire transfer has been reversed by the Highnote support team.
  • Outgoing: An outgoing wire transfer has been reversed by the Highnote support team.

Incoming wire transfer reversal

Use the following query to find an incoming wire transfer reversal:

Outgoing wire transfer reversal

Use the following query to find an outgoing wire transfer reversal:

Transfer funds from a financial account to product funding account

Use the following mutation to transfer funds from a Highnote financial account to your product funding account. For input variables, use the following IDs:

  • toFinancialAccountId: Product funding account ID
  • fromFinancialAccountId: Account holder's payment card financial account ID

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