Sepa-payment-qr-code NPM

sepa-payment-qr-code

Generate a QR code to initiate a SEPA credit transfer a.k.a. bank transfer.

ISC-licensed

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).

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.