{"id":30639,"date":"2026-08-20T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accountable.eu\/help-center\/what-is-a-sepa-mandate-and-how-do-you-confirm-it\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:27:07","slug":"what-is-a-sepa-mandate-and-how-do-you-confirm-it","status":"publish","type":"help_center","link":"https:\/\/www.accountable.eu\/en-be\/help-center\/what-is-a-sepa-mandate-and-how-do-you-confirm-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a SEPA mandate, and how do you confirm it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_a55b5efbd9\">Overview<\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">A SEPA Direct Debit mandate is your authorization allowing a company or organization to collect payments from your account via SEPA Direct Debit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Many service providers require a SEPA mandate to collect recurring payments such as rent, insurance, or software subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_666f80f278\">Which SEPA Direct Debits are supported?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">With your Accountable Banking business account, you can pay SEPA Direct Debits as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">This includes payments such as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\ud83c\udfe0 Rent<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\ud83d\udcbb Software subscriptions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\ud83d\udcf1 Phone or internet contracts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\u26a1 Utility bills<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f Insurance premiums<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Other recurring payments<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Once a valid SEPA mandate has been registered, these payments can be collected from your business account as normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\"><b>\u26a0\ufe0f Important:<\/b> Collecting SEPA Direct Debits from other people&#8217;s accounts (i.e. debiting your customers or other third parties) is currently not supported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">At the moment, you cannot use your Accountable Banking account as a SEPA Direct Debit originator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_49b8b2e3ae\">How do I confirm a SEPA mandate?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">If you need to register a SEPA Direct Debit mandate, please contact our support team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">We will send you a <b>secure link<\/b> that allows you to register and confirm your SEPA mandate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_f264ffef99\">\u203c\ufe0f Please do not send your mandate by post<\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Please <b>do not<\/b> send your SEPA mandate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">to the Accountable Office<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">directly to our banking partner<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">or to any postal address<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">SEPA mandates can only be registered using the secure link provided by our support team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_677fd91776\">\ud83d\ude80 Need help?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">If you already have a SEPA mandate or need help setting one up, simply contact our support team. \ud83d\udc9c We&#8217;ll send you the appropriate link and be happy to assist you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a business partner (such as a supplier or service provider) wants to automatically debit payments from your Accountable banking account, this is done through a SEPA B2B mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","help_label":[523,532],"class_list":["post-30639","help_center","type-help_center","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is a SEPA mandate, and how do you confirm it? 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