Dedicated client money accounts with Verify
This collection covers:
- Onboarding a customer using Verify
- Opening a dedicated client money account for the customer
- Making, receiving, and tracking payments
- Closing a bank account
1. Onboard a customer using Verifyโ
Before you can open bank accounts, you will need to create legal persons to represent your customers in our system.
You are using Verify, our onboarding product that lets you submit your customer's information, and run automated ID&V, screening and anti-fraud checks on them all in one go.
Select the guide you need based on the type of customer you are onboarding.
- ๐ข Limited company
- ๐ง Individual
- ๐ฉโ๐ง Sole trader
2. Open a client money account for the customerโ
You can now use the legal person URL you created in the last step to open a bank account for your customer.
๐ผ Open a client money account
You are using dedicated client money accounts, which means the account will hold money from a single customer, who is the beneficiary of that account.
Learn more about owners, controllers, and beneficiaries.
3. Paymentsโ
Receive a payment into the accountโ
Griffin automatically receives payments, so there are no actions you need to take here, but you can track the progress of inbound payments by creating a webhook.
- ๐ช Create a webhook
- ๐ฐ Receive a payment
Make a payment from the accountโ
You can use a webhook or polling to track payments you have submitted.
๐ธ Make a payment
- Webhook
- Polling
4. Close the bank accountโ
Once closed, the bank account cannot be reopened. Once a bank account enters the closing
state, it will no longer accept inbound payments.