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EPS (Electronic Payment Standard) is an online bank transfer payment method in Austria. Customers pay from their Austrian bank account and confirm each payment in their online banking. Payrails processes EPS through Checkout.com.

How an EPS payment works

EPS is a bank redirect payment method:
  1. The customer selects EPS at checkout.
  2. Payrails creates the payment at Checkout.com and returns a redirect URL, and the customer goes to their bank.
  3. The customer confirms the payment in their online banking.
  4. The bank sends the customer back to your returnInfo URL.
  5. Payrails receives the final result from Checkout.com and updates the payment.
Each payment is single-use: the customer confirms every payment on its own. Payrails captures EPS payments immediately, so a successful payment is final.

Supported currencies and countries

EPS supports EUR (euro) as its only presentment currency.

Supported workflows

Before you begin

Complete these steps before you send your first EPS payment through Checkout.com:
  1. Set up a Checkout.com integration in your workspace. Follow the Checkout.com integration setup guide if you don’t have one yet.
  2. Ask Checkout.com support to enable EPS on your Checkout.com account.
  3. In the Payrails Portal, go to Settings → Integrations, open your Checkout.com integration, select EPS under Payment methods, and save.
  4. Add EPS as a payment option in your workflow.

Request fields for Checkout.com

EPS needs no method-specific fields. Send the standard authorize fields, including the returnInfo URLs for the redirect. Payrails also sends these fields to Checkout.com when they’re present:

Authorize an EPS payment

Call authorize a payment with eps as the paymentMethodCode. The response includes the redirect to the customer’s bank.
Authorize request
After the customer confirms the payment, the bank returns them to your success or error URL. Confirm the result through webhook notifications or the execution status before you fulfill the order.

How Checkout.com handles EPS

  • Payrails creates the EPS payment through the Checkout.com Payment Setup API. Checkout.com needs no payment token for EPS.
  • If Checkout.com doesn’t return a redirect for a pending EPS payment, Payrails fails the payment, because the customer can’t complete it.
  • Payrails doesn’t save the EPS payment method at Checkout.com, so Save Instruments and MIT aren’t available.
Last modified on October 2, 2026