Fees
Where the price of a conversion lives, why there is no fee field to reconcile, and what to ask us. Mechanics, never numbers: your rate is in your agreement, not on this page.
This page describes how pricing behaves on this API. It publishes no percentage, no minimum, no ceiling and no rate card, and it never will: your commercial terms are in your agreement with us, they differ between partners, and a number printed here would be wrong for most readers and stale for the rest.
What does belong here is the arithmetic, because your reconciliation has to agree with ours to the minor unit.
The quote is the price
Ask for a quote and you get both legs and the rate between them. Those amounts are what the order executes at. There is no separate fee line to add or subtract, no fee field on any response, and nothing to reconcile beyond the two legs you were shown.
Never derive the other leg yourself
Supply one leg and read the other off the response. The derived leg rounds in OnLink's favour, so a number you computed will occasionally disagree with the one the order executes at — and the response is the one that is true. Store both legs from the response and reconcile against those.
Why the rounding matters more than the rate
If you disclose a price to your own payer at checkout, you are quoting a number that has to survive three journeys: your display, our calculation, and your reconciliation afterwards. The rate is the part that is easy to get right. The part that goes wrong is the minor unit — a leg recomputed on your side from the rate, rounded the other way, produces a cent of drift per order and a reconciliation break per month.
Read both legs off the quote, hold them as integer minor units, and never as a binary float. See Money.
What to ask us
- Your rate, and whether it carries a minimum or a ceiling.
- What your invoice looks like, and on what cycle.
Email info@onlink.africa. Those are commercial questions with a per-partner answer, which is exactly why they are not documented here.