**Last updated**: 10 February 2026 | [**Change log**](/access/products/apms/changelog/)

# Automated Clearing House (ACH)/eCheck

A direct debit for US based merchants.

Automated Clearing House (ACH), often referred to as eCheck, allows your customers to pay by transferring funds directly from their bank account.

Note
Make yourself familiar with our [API principles](/access/products/reference/api-principles) to ensure a resilient integration.

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### Processing

Processing of ACH transactions happens overnight (or the next available working day at weekends and holidays). The handling bank issues regular reports outlining the successful and failed payments. Once the payment is successful, you can release the goods and services to the customer.

### Feature summary

| Payment type | Countries | Currencies | Recurring | Reversals | Partial reversals | Chargebacks |
|  --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Direct Debit | US | USD | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |


 In some cases you may wish to cancel a sale request. You can do this using a [reversal request](/access/products/apms/openapi/payment-lifecycle/reverse). You must do this within three hours of the sale request, on the same US business day, or it will be processed as a refund.

If your original reversal is not successful for any reason, you must re-send the reversal request after the three hour timeframe in order to make a refund request. 

Note
Chargebacks and refunds can occur, and are managed directly at acquirer level.

## Get started

Use our [API reference](/access/products/apms/openapi) and set your headers.

## Request

`POST` `https://try.access.worldpay.com/apmPayments`

### Example requests

### Parameters

## Response

### Example response

Successful
{
  "paymentInstrument": {
    "method": "ach",
    "type": "direct"
  },
  "paymentId": "eyJrIjoiYXBtLXNlcnZpY2UtZGVmYXVsdCIsImxpbmtWZXJzaW9uIjoiNi4wLjAifQ==.BnnxxcMle38OazhwbF8J+4rtJi8CAq:Y3zUOn1dw6VWfvx:PHL5L0S+5ara5vz6ouV5yBmVUQCiSwQjs+1x5qJIJxAKWMWc2Mlb1doricEYlzsZIRIGCflvnYu1Ns8g1S0+66n6wCELiB9OHfX7cdDZM8QaH19DiFbmMAchPSTyxQUry+EjhI+4Av0FZgKybTQW8Eq5Lj6LFzcEh8YV9gKLyAJXKJwZGztDqfCZz9C54i7Qm6PznXY+lb8gjX08QbPuM7eN9CDfUDc8S4J3uauHV:lzKfpwhCpCj20XtN:AkTEXfvJEm8PKFuVlX10AbTZIsCMVbuMS1sIqrgbendo:b1Rfx8XquR8u:dBYr5a70wYkewsxOvrYXmLip3FvyJdzRzXf3LyUgHUqZh:ulvr2BwGjsfY6y32HN+osTE4dworCDzhGpsvEwJ:GRwLUNfeKBzVqK6WhJGqM+s8XpCA==",
  "lastEvent": "authorized",
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/apmPayments/eyJrIjoiYXBtLXNlcnZpY2UtZGVmYXVsdCIsImxpbmtWZXJzaW9uIjoiNi4wLjAifQ==.BnnxxcMle38OazhwbF8J+4rtJi8CAq:Y3zUOn1dw6VWfvx:PHL5L0S+5ara5vz6ouV5yBmVUQCiSwQjs+1x5qJIJxAKWMWc2Mlb1doricEYlzsZIRIGCflvnYu1Ns8g1S0+66n6wCELiB9OHfX7cdDZM8QaH19DiFbmMAchPSTyxQUry+EjhI+4Av0FZgKybTQW8Eq5Lj6LFzcEh8YV9gKLyAJXKJwZGztDqfCZz9C54i7Qm6PznXY+lb8gjX08QbPuM7eN9CDfUDc8S4J3uauHV:lzKfpwhCpCj20XtN:AkTEXfvJEm8PKFuVlX10AbTZIsCMVbuMS1sIqrgbendo:b1Rfx8XquR8u:dBYr5a70wYkewsxOvrYXmLip3FvyJdzRzXf3LyUgHUqZh:ulvr2BwGjsfY6y32HN+osTE4dworCDzhGpsvEwJ:GRwLUNfeKBzVqK6WhJGqM+s8XpCA=="
    }
  },
  "_actions": {},
  "redirect": "",
  "commandId": "cmdSQBwMoFu3i2bNWmLGZLid0"
}
Error response
{
  "errorName": "bodyDoesNotMatchSchema",
  "message": "The json body provided does not match the expected schema",
  "validationErrors": [
    {
      "errorName": "fieldHasInvalidValue",
      "message": "Field is mandatory",
      "jsonPath": "$.instruction.value.amount"
    }
  ]
}
### Schema

#### Errors

Check out our API reference for [more responses or error codes](/access/products/apms/openapi/other/payment#other/payment/response&c=400).

**Next steps**

[Manage your ACH/eCheck payment](/access/products/apms/manage/).