Mandate
A mandate is the standing instruction a member gives their bank to permit collections from a specified payee. In Syndik8, the payee is the syndicate (via the payment provider), and the mandate is what makes Direct Debit collections possible.
A member sets up a mandate once. From then on, the syndicate’s monthly billing run can pull whatever is outstanding (subject to an advance notice) without the member having to authorise each collection individually.
A mandate is in one of four states:
pending: created on the provider, awaiting member signature.active: signed and ready to collect against.cancelled: the member or admin cancelled it. Affects future collections only; does not retroactively undo past ones.rejected: the bank rejected the mandate (typically AUDDIS, invalid account details).
Only one mandate is active at a time per syndicate per member; a member can hold a sequence of mandates over time as old ones are cancelled and new ones set up.