Blnk v0.6.1

Release date: Apr 11, 2024

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Introducing Search

Search gives you full control and flexibility over how you fetch your transaction data from your Blnk Ledger. You can use Search to retrieve any data — ledgers, ledger balances, and transactions — from your Blnk Ledger. Blnk uses Typesense to handle fetching data from your ledger allowing you to efficiently display data in your application, easily track balances and transactions, and filter specific information needed from your ledger for investigation.

Go to Search Blnk - Overview to explore Search.

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Set precision when recording transactions

You can now set a precision value in your transaction request payload.

Blnk uses precision to convert transaction amounts to the lowest unit possible, e.g., converting naira to kobo, to ensure that your balances are correctly computed.

For instance, if a customer sends 1000.50 to a vendor, Blnk accepts the amount value as 1000.50 (float), retrieves the precision (e.g. 100) from the payload, and applies it to the amount. This converts our amount from 1000.50 to 100050 (the precise_amount).

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Introducing rates

You can now record transactions between two different asset classes (currency). By passing the rate value, Blnk automatically applies the rate to the amount being sent and records it in the destination balance.

E.g., if a NGN balance is sending 1000 Naira to a USD balance, you can record the transaction with the 1NGN = 0.00081USD rate like this:

{
	"reference": ref_1234567890,
	"amount": 1000,
	"currency": "NGN",
	"precision": 100,
	"rate": 0.00081,
	"source": "bal_ngn",
	"destination": "bal_usd"
}

This will debit NGN 1000 from bal_ngn and credit USD 0.81 to bal_usd.

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Commit inflight transactions in bits

You can now commit transactions in INFLIGHT in bits, i.e., you can release the amount being held by your system in batches based on the conditions you’ve set for the transaction or participating balance.

You can learn more in Introducing Inflight.

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New & improved

1. Fixed typos in the payloads for inflight and allow_overdraft.
2. General bug and performance improvements.