How to get started

Availability and the next steps needed to integrate with this API.

Available countries/ territories

The Supply Chain Finance APIs currently support the locations listed below. For more details, please speak to your HSBC representative.

Region	Country/Territory
Asia Pacific	AU - Australia BD - Bangladesh CN - China HK - Hong Kong IN - India JP - Japan MY - Malaysia SG - Singapore TH - Thailand TW - Taiwan VN - Vietnam
Europe	FR - France GB - United Kingdom
Middle East	AE - United Arab Emirates
Americas	CA - Canada

This API is for corporate customers of HSBC, or corporate partners operating a third party platform.

API	Environment
API	Live	Sandbox
Submit Supplier On-boarding Application	✅	Coming Soon
Request Supplier On-boarding Status	✅	Coming Soon
Submit Approved Invoices'	✅	✅
Request Invoices' Summary List	✅	✅

For more details on eligibility for this API, please speak to our Trade Finance team .

Getting started is really simple! Please follow these steps to start working with our APIs:

Refer to API Security at HSBC to find out more about HSBC API Security Schemes.
Register for a Corporate account to get access to the documentation and sandbox environments.
Once you have registered, Find the APIs that meet your requirements and read the Documentation.
Review the API Specification under Endpoints for suitability of your business needs.

Review Documentation for technical details.

Documentation\Left Menu	Left Menu Item
	Refer to API Information for overview
	Refer to Securing a Connection to understand details of HSBC API Security schemas
	Refer to Making an API Request for step-by-step tutorials
	Refer to Response Codes and Formats for understanding and troubleshoots
	Refer to Sandbox Access for usage of the Corporate sandbox to build your integration and test connectivity

Once you are happy with how our APIs work, create a sandbox project under Dev Hub.
Refer to Sandbox Access for usage of the Corporate sandbox to build your integration and test connectivity
In the event of something going wrong during API testing, please send a support ticket via Contact Us.

Refer to Go Live for steps on generating security credentials for HSBC API Connectivity in live environment
Contact our Client Integration Team where a Client Integration Manager will be allocated to guide you through on-boarding and set up in our managed test environments and support connectivity to the live APIs