Technical specification · Banco Central do Brasil · Authoritative (T1)
Manual de Padrões para Iniciação do Pix
Current version 2.10.0 · entry recorded 8 Oct 2026
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What changed: The Banco Central do Brasil's standards for initiating Pix payments, including initiation by QR code, with the Pix API documentation. Version 2.10.0 is dated 19 August 2026 in the manual's revision history: it adds the AUTO initiation form to the mandatory information for initiation through a payment initiation service, adjusts the information on the payer's municipality code in dynamic QR codes with a due date, and adds information on the termination of a recurrence and of a recurrence request (Annex IV).
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What changed: Version 2.9.0, dated 5 September 2025 in the revision history of version 2.10.0, added an example of an alphanumeric CNPJ key and adapted the rules for forming the idRec and idSolicRec identifiers to the alphanumeric CNPJ. Recorded from that revision history; the file now at the linked address is version 2.10.0, and no separate version 2.9.0 file is linked. Superseded by version 2.10.0.
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