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Sipag — Card Acquiring (Brazil)

Sicoob's own card acquirer. Authorise, capture, void and refund credit and debit cards in BRL — instalments included — through the Fiserv IPG Web Service.

The Problem

Why does this extension exist?

pg_sicoob collects Pix and registered boleto into a Sicoob current account, and that is all a bank can do — a cooperative account cannot authorise a card. Brazilian drivers still expect to tap a card at the charger, and Pay-Per-Session needs an amount held before the cable unlocks and settled for what the session actually cost. Without an acquirer beside the bank, an operator that banks with Sicoob has to send card volume to an unrelated processor and reconcile two settlement streams.

The Solution

What you get

  • Credit and debit card authorisation in BRL — the half of Brazilian payments a bank account cannot serve
  • Pre-authorisation and capture — preAuth reserves an estimate, postAuth settles the session for what it actually cost
  • Instalments (parcelado) — split a charge over several months, with interest absorbed by the merchant or passed to the cardholder
  • Stored cards through HostedDataID — IPG keeps the card, the platform keeps only the token, so a top-up charges with nobody present
  • Void and refund from the same Web Service, whether the session was cancelled the same day or settled weeks ago
  • Mutually authenticated TLS with the client certificate Sipag issues to the merchant, and HTTP Basic on top
  • Pairs with pg_sicoob — Pix and boleto into the cooperative account, cards through its own acquirer, one platform
🎯 Who is this for?

CPOs and eMSPs in Brazil that bank with Sicoob and need to take cards as well as Pix and boleto. Enable it beside pg_sicoob and the platform routes each payment to whichever gateway can actually take it.

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Key Capabilities

Everything included

Card Authorisation

Send a sale for an immediate charge, or preAuth to reserve. Credit and debit, in BRL, on Sicoob's own acquiring contract.

Holds for Pay-Per-Session

preAuth reserves an estimate before the cable unlocks; postAuth captures the same amount or less once the session ends and the real cost is known.

Instalments (Parcelado)

Split a charge over several parcelas, with the interest absorbed by the merchant or passed to the cardholder — the way Brazilians expect to buy.

Stored Cards

IPG holds the card against a HostedDataID. The platform stores only that token, so a top-up or a monthly settlement charges without the driver present.

Void and Refund

Void a transaction before it settles, return it afterwards. Both go through the same Web Service, with the original order kept as the reference.

Certified TLS Channel

The client certificate and key Sipag issues to the merchant establish the mutually authenticated channel IPG requires, with HTTP Basic layered on top.

Use Cases

See it in action

How operators banking with a Sicoob cooperative take the card payments the bank itself cannot.

Driver taps a card at a cooperative's charger
A driver without a Pix-ready app pays by credit card at a charger in Minas Gerais. Sipag authorises in BRL and the money settles into the same Sicoob relationship as the operator's Pix takings.
Pay-Per-Session settles for what the session cost
The platform places a R$120 hold before unlocking the cable. The session draws R$68, and postAuth captures exactly that — the driver is never charged for energy they did not take.
Fleet card is charged monthly with nobody at the charger
A fleet stores its corporate card once. At month end the platform charges the stored HostedDataID for the whole period, with no one at the charger and no card details held on the platform.
Simulated Case Study

Cooperative network takes cards and bank payments on one platform

A charging network in Minas Gerais already collected Pix and boleto through pg_sicoob. Adding Sipag beside it brought card volume onto the same cooperative relationship: the platform routes Pix and boleto to the bank and cards to the acquirer, and the operator reconciles one settlement report instead of two.

100%
Brazilian methods covered
12x
Instalments offered
R$0
Card data held on the platform
1
Settlement stream to reconcile

Ready to take cards alongside Pix and boleto?

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