---
title: "Create Payment Channel"
method: POST
path: "/v4/payees/{payeeId}/paymentChannels/"
tags: ["Payee Payment Channels"]
---

# Create Payment Channel

`POST /v4/payees/{payeeId}/paymentChannels/`

Create a payment channel

## Path parameters

- `payeeId` string, uuid, required

## Request body

- CreatePaymentChannelRequestV4
  - `paymentChannelName` string
  - `iban` string — Must match the regular expression ```^[A-Za-z0-9]+$```.
  - `accountNumber` string
  - `routingNumber` string
  - `countryCode` string — Valid ISO 3166 2 character country code. See the <a href="https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html" target="_blank" a>ISO specification</a> for details.
  - `currency` string — Valid ISO 4217 3 letter currency code. See the <a href="https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html" target="_blank" a>ISO specification</a> for details.
  - `accountName` string

## Response `201`

Payment channel is created.

## Other responses

- `400` — Invalid request. See Error message payload for details of failure
- `401` — Invalid access token. May be expired or invalid
- `403` — The authentication does not have permissions to access the resource This usually occurs when there is a valid authentication instance (client or user) but they do not have the required permissions
- `404` — The resource was not found or is no longer available
- `409` — The request contained data that would result in a duplicate value

---

[API](https://skmtc.net/velopaymentsapi/apis/velo-payments-apis.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/velopaymentsapi/apis/velo-payments-apis/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/velopaymentsapi/velo-payments-apis/revisions/05c3f09fc50a/schema)