During onboarding, if a merchant submits an application that has a problem and needs to be fixed, you can now do that in the Rainforest Portal or allow your merchants to fix it themselves using the merchant onboarding component.

We are releasing an update to the Merchants view in the Rainforest Platform Portal to give more visibility into the merchant's latest application.

When a Payin is blocked by Rainforest because it appears fraudulent, we will be changing the refusal_code returned by our API from RAINFOREST_RISK_DECLINEto RISK_DECLINE.

This week, we launched a change to the Onboarding component to clarify the questions around the merchant's estimated payment activity.

Rainforest is excited to share that you can now use Plaid bank account verification for merchant onboarding! Plaid authenticates your merchant's financial information, permitting companies to transfer sensitive information securely. You can learn more about how Plaid works or how they secure financial data.

Rainforest is introducing permission groups, a higher-level API for permissions. Permission groups let you:

We are releasing an update to the bank account entry page within the merchant onboarding component. No code changes are necessary, and the revised flow will automatically apply to any new display of the merchant onboarding component starting January 16, 2023.

This change released on December 1st, 2023 at 12pm ET.