GoCardless

GoCardless is a platform for collecting recurring and one-off payments directly from customers’ bank accounts. It is commonly used in ecommerce for subscription billing, invoice payments, and automated payment collection.

Key features include:

Direct debit payment processing
Instant bank payments
Customer mandate creation
Payment API access
Multi-currency support

This scenario creates a GoCardless customer and initiates an instant first payment with a direct debit mandate when an order is finalised in ShopWired.

This scenario allows:

Triggering from a ShopWired order finalised webhook
Creating a customer in GoCardless via HTTP request
Initiating a payment and mandate in GoCardless
Passing order total as payment amount
Defining currency for the transaction

ShopWired can only provide support for the scenario as provided in this guide. Any customisations or changes made to the scenario are supported by Make.

Prerequisites

An account with Make
An account with GoCardless

Scenario blueprint

A blueprint is provided for this scenario here:

Public blueprint link

Modules used in this scenario:

ShopWired order finalised
HTTP - Create GoCardless customer
GoCardless - Create instant first payment and direct debit mandate

This scenario uses:

A webhook trigger
HTTP module to create a GoCardless customer
GoCardless app module to create a payment and mandate

Scenario setup steps

Select the scenario blueprint provided with this guide
Open it in Make
Create a new scenario from the blueprint
Replace any placeholder values if required
Connect required accounts
Turn the scenario on
Trigger the relevant event in ShopWired

ShopWired webhook data

Event: order.finalized

{
  "event": {
    "topic": "order.finalized",
    "data": {
      "object": {
        "reference": "1000123",
        "total": "59.99",
        "currency": "GBP"
      }
    }
  }
}

Required user inputs

Field	Description
GoCardless API token	Used in the HTTP module Authorization header
Currency	Currency code used for payments (e.g. GBP) if not dynamically mapped
Customer details	Email, name, and address fields used in HTTP request body
Webhook URL	Generated by Make and added to ShopWired

Recommendations

Ensure the currency field is correctly set or mapped from ShopWired data
The amount must remain multiplied by 100 to match GoCardless minor units
Replace static customer data in the HTTP module with mapped ShopWired fields
Keep API tokens secure and do not expose them in shared scenarios
Test the webhook by placing a real order in ShopWired
This scenario only runs when an order is finalised
This scenario does not update or modify orders in ShopWired