Alma
To activate Alma please contact your account manager or reach out to our support team.
Alma is a popular buy now, pay later service in France. With Alma, shoppers can pay for their goods in three or four installments. Before approving a payment, Alma performs risk checks on the shopper. If successful, it takes on the full fraud risk for the payment, and pays you upfront.
How it works
Key information
| Available country codes | FR, BE |
| Supported merchant locations | European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, Switzerland |
| Supported currencies | EUR |
| API method name | alma |
| Supported API | Payments API, Orders API |
| Minimum transaction amount | EUR 50.00 |
Maximum transaction amount* *The stated maximum transaction value does not guarantee acceptance. Alma performs an approval check for every payment attempt (e.g., based on customer and risk criteria) and may reject transactions even within the allowed limits. | EUR 2,000.00 |
| Session timeout | 20 minutes |
| Supported Operations | Full Auto-Capture Full refund Partial refund |
| Refund validity | 365 days |
| Recurring payments | No |
| Settlement delay | 5 business days |
| Chargeback risk | Yes |
| Chargeback period | 120 days |
| Resource pack | Available here |