Sub Account Overview
DOKU Sub Account is a set of APIs and tools that facilitate you to accept and send payments on your marketplace or software platform. DOKU Sub Account is a solution for merchants that need to handle payment between different parties at different times in different scenarios. DOKU Sub Account gives you more strength to handle the payment routing easier than ever before without compromising user experience.
With DOKU Sub Account, you can create accounts for your partners, transact on behalf of them, split payments, monitor their transactions, directly bill them, send payouts and more.
Once DOKU Sub Account service has been verified for your business, you may use the Account API to create sub accounts, thereafter simply include account_id parameter in DOKU API call to create a transaction for those accounts. These accounts and their transactions will appear in the Finance - Sub Account tab on your DOKU Dashboard. Currently DOKU Sub Account is in closed beta. Contact us if you want to get early access.
When using DOKU Sub Account you will be referred to as a Platform, each party that receives money on your platform will be referred to as a Partner.
- Platform: Merchant (Business entity that has legal agreement with DOKU)
- Partner: Merchant's Business Partner e.g seller, branch, service/ product provider, etc (Business entity/ personal that has legal agreement with Platform)
Learn How DOKU Sub Account Works
1. Create an Account
When using DOKU Sub Account you need to create an account (known as sub account) for each party that receives money on your site. These accounts are created when your partner signs up for your site. The type of account you choose for your partner determines your partner experience and operational responsibilities such as KYC/ KYB, user support, etc. Currently there are two account types you can use with DOKU Sub Account, each of which is designed for different use cases.
- Default: This account is almost completely invisible to the account holder and DOKU has no direct contact with them. Default accounts are suitable for platforms who want to control the entire user experience. Liability for partner KYC/ KYB is on Platform.
- Standard: Platform can manage payout, customize the flow of funds. An account with a Standard account is able to log in to DOKU Dashboard to view their transaction history and account balance. Liability for partner KYC/ KYB is on Platform.
2. Accept Payment
This part describes how to accept a payment, route part or all of the funds to your partner’s account, and (optionally) move a portion into your own balance. How funds from payments are allocated between accounts depends upon which approach is used. You can use DOKU Direct or DOKU Checkout to accept payment. Here an example of creating a payment for your partner account:
3. Payout your Partner
As a Platform, you can request to payout money from your partner’s balance account for any purpose e.g: withdrawal, refund, paying vendor/supplier, etc.
Understanding Account Balances
Both your platform account and a partner account are still just DOKU accounts, each with their own, separate account balance.
All Sub Account can have balances in two states:
- pending, meaning the funds are not yet available to pay out.
- available, meaning the funds can be paid out now. Notes: Available balance is depends on what payment channel being used, e.g Virtual Account aggregator can be paid out D+1 working day
Balance Dashboard
You can monitor all your partner balance here:
Preparation
- This feature currently only works for Aggregator Merchant, meaning that your funds are settled from acquiring to DOKU, then DOKU will forward the funds to your account.
- You have activated the sub account service when onboarding to DOKU.
- Sub Account currently only works for integration with:
- Checkout (Virtual Account)
- Direct API (Virtual Account)
Then you are good to go!
What's next?
Start the quick and easy integration process with DOKU Sub Account. Learn more here.