/sepa-payment-qr-code

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.

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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 size 69 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

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.