One Off Payments: Emails to Your Payer

For One Off Payments, you have a choice if you want to send the emails yourself or if Flywire sends the emails automatically for you.

How do I define who sends the emails?

When you are Creating a Checkout Session for One Off Payments, the enable_email_notifications parameter defines who sends the emails.

With this parameter you can decide if you want to send the emails to your payer yourself or if you want Flywire to automatically send the emails for you:

• true: Flywire sends the emails for you

• false: You send the emails yourself

Default: false

Refer to One Off Payments: Emails to Your Payer for which emails need to be send for One Off Payments.

Important information if you are sending the emails yourself

How do I get the correct email address for sending the emails?

You'll receive the payer's email address in the postMessage of the event listener, see The postMessage of the Event Listener for more details.

Which emails do I need to send?

Mandatory Emails for One Off Payments

Email	Description	Example email from Flywire
Payment Guaranteed	You need to send this to your payer after Flywire received the money from the payer. You'll know that this has happened when the payment is in status guaranteed, see Payment Status Notifications.

Optional Emails for One Off Payments

Email	Description	Example email from Flywire
Payment Initiated	Only for payment method "Bank Transfer". This is an optional email for your payer to send them the payment instructions for their bank transfer after the payment is initiated. It is highly recommended to send your payer this email so they can look up how to transfer the money to you. If you chose to let Flywire send emails for you (see How do I define who sends the emails?), Flywire will send this email containing a link to the payment instructions. If you are sending the email yourself, you can insert the payment instructions directly into the email. Where to find the payment instructions for your payer