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# BILL VALIDATE API

Bill Validate API is a request which is sent from the NPCI through BOU to the biller portal in order to check if the bill exists or not.

#### <mark style="color:blue;">**Request Parameters**</mark>

**The various parameters are explained below:**

| Parent Property/Element                | Property/Element Name | Mandatory | Data Type               | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| -------------------------------------- | --------------------- | --------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| \[ROOT] (No parent property / element) | refID                 | M         | String                  | Unique identification assigned by the initiating BBPOU to unambiguously identify the transaction which is passed on, unchanged, throughout the entire end-to-end chain, binding the Fetch and Payment messages Status of the bill fetch response Successful/Failure |
|                                        | billerId              | M         | String                  | Unique identification code allocated to the Biller                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|                                        | customerParams        | M         | Array                   | Customer bill fetch related details                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|                                        | customerParams.tags   | M         | Object                  | Contains name and value pair which describes details about the customer to the biller                                                                                                                                                                               |
|                                        | tenantId              | M         | String Fixed length - 4 | OU ID of request originating BOU                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |

#### <mark style="color:blue;">**Expected Acknowledgement Parameters**</mark>

**The various parameters are explained below:**

| Parent Property/Element                | Property/Element Name | Mandatory | Data Type                               | Description                 |
| -------------------------------------- | --------------------- | --------- | --------------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| \[ROOT] (No parent property / element) | reason                | M         | String Min Length – 1, Max Length – 100 | Reason of the Status        |
|                                        | code                  | M         | String Fixed Length 3                   | Response code for a request |
|                                        | status                | M         | String Min Length – 1, Max Length – 100 | Status of given request     |

<mark style="color:blue;">**Json Formatted Request Example**</mark>

```json
    {
    "refId": "String",
    "billerId:": "String", "customerParams": [
    {
    "name": "String",
    "value": "String"
    }
    ],
    "tenantId" : "String"
    }
```

<mark style="color:blue;">**Json Formatted Response Example**</mark>

<pre class="language-json"><code class="lang-json">    {
<strong>    "reason":"String",
</strong>    "code":"Integer", "status":"String"
    }
</code></pre>


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