Marketplaces

Escrow through our API

Create and manage held payments from your own platform, then send us your setup details in one go.

Buyer pays in through your platform

Funds secured

Escrow agent: Perpetual Corporate Trust

Seller paid when your API calls release it

A CheckVault payment moving from buyer to seller through CheckVault's five states. The buyer pays in, Perpetual Corporate Trust holds the money once it is secured, and it is released to the seller when both sides agree.

Three ways to connect

  • Hosted dashboard

    No code. Run trades in a dashboard on your own subdomain.

  • Handover API

    APIv2. You create the trade, then hand it to CheckVault.

  • Full API

    APIv3. Every step by API, on your own platform.

What the API covers

People

  • Individuals and organisations
  • Users, roles and permissions
  • Identity checks and bank details

Trades

  • One payment or several
  • Releases, refunds and variations
  • Fee surcharges

Your platform

  • Webhooks and a consent widget
  • Keys locked to your IP addresses
  • A staging site to build against

Full reference in our Postman workspace.

What it costs

Setup fee

$1,100 once

Invoiced when contracts are signed.

Annual fee

$3,300 a year

Paid in advance. Covers your staging and live environments.

The annual fee is waived in your first year, and in any year after 12 months with over $1,000,000 transacted. Prices include GST.

See all pricing

From form to live in four steps

  1. Fill in the form, about five minutes

  2. Email us the report

  3. Build and test on staging

  4. Go live on your subdomain

Broker onboarding

A report with everything we need to set up your environment.

Step 1 of 7 · Welcome

Before you start

Have these details ready.

  1. Platform: trade creation, name and subdomain

  2. Administrator: who manages your dashboard

  3. Configuration: payments and SMS

  4. API and branding, if you need them

So we can contact you about your setup.

Required. Answers are saved on this device only. Don’t enter passwords or API secrets.

Clear all answers?

This removes every answer and your saved progress on this device. It can’t be undone. Download your report first if you need a copy.

Questions about the API?

Tell us what you’re building and we’ll suggest the right setup.

Email our team

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