sepa-payment-qr-code
v2.0.2
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Generate a QR code to initiate a SEPA bank transfer.
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sepa-payment-qr-code
Generate a QR code to initiate a SEPA credit transfer a.k.a. bank transfer.
Installation
npm install sepa-payment-qr-code
Usage
// generate-qr-code.js
const generateQrCode = require('sepa-payment-qr-code')
const qr = generateQrCode({
name: 'Red Cross of Belgium',
iban: 'BE72000000001616',
amount: 123.45,
unstructuredReference: 'Urgency fund',
information: 'Sample QR code'
})
process.stdout.write(qr)
node generate-qr-code.js | qrencode -t ansiutf8 -l M
# prints QR code to the terminal
This library only generates the text input to be QR-encoded. Use the library of your choice to render the QR code to PNG/SVG/React/etc.
Note the following limitations posed by European Payments Council's (EPC) Quick Response Code: Guidelines to Enable Data Capture for The Initiation of a Sepa Credit Transfer document:
2 2D Code Guidelines Definition:
- QR code error level
M
(15% of code words can be restored)- Maximum QR code version
13
, equivalent to module size69
or 331 byte payload- Character sets:
- UTF-8
- ISO 8859-1
- ISO 8859-2
- ISO 8859-4
- ISO 8859-5
- ISO 8859-7
- ISO 8859-10
- ISO 8859-15
Also note that EPC QR codes are always in euros (EUR
).
See also
- EPC QR code – Wikipedia
- Quick Response Code: Guidelines to Enable Data Capture for the Initiation of a SEPA Credit Transfer EPC document
- Credit Transfer Payment API – W3C
Contributing
If you have a question or need support using sepa-payment-qr-code
, please double-check your code and setup first. If you think you have found a bug or want to propose a feature, refer to the issues page.