Payment Event

https://publicschema.org/PaymentEvent

candidate

A record of a direct monetary transfer from a program to a beneficiary. Covers bank transfer, mobile money, cash, agent network, and prepaid card channels. Multiple payment events may fulfill a single entitlement (e.g., split payments, multi-tranche disbursements, or retries after failure).

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Supertypes

Event

Properties

Property Type Definition
Identifiers from Event concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Entitlement reference uri Reference to the entitlement that this payment or voucher fulfills.
Enrollment reference uri Reference to the enrollment to which this entitlement belongs.
Recipient concept:Party includes Person, Group, Household, Family, Farm
The person or group that received or is intended to receive the payment. The recipient may differ from the enrolled beneficiary, for example when a guardian, payment proxy, or survivor collects on behalf of the beneficiary.
Payment amount decimal The monetary value of this payment.
Payment currency string (currency) The ISO 4217 currency code for this payment.
Payment date date The date on which the payment was made or processed.
Payment status string (payment-status) The processing state of the payment.
Delivery channel string (delivery-channel) The mechanism through which the transfer reaches the beneficiary.
Failure reason string A description of why the payment failed, was returned, or was rejected.
Is reconciled boolean
Whether this payment has been matched and verified against financial system records.

Evidence

Present in all 6 mapped delivery systems.

Standard Equivalent Match
DCI Core N/A none
DCI does not define a standalone payment event entity. Payment data is tracked as properties on Beneficiary (disbursement history).

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