Daily Checkout.com payments briefing in Slack

Every weekday at 8am, send me a plain-English payments briefing for my Checkout.com account and post it to Slack. Run this on a schedule (cron), Monday through Friday, covering all of yesterday's activity.

Use Checkout.com's Search Payments to pull every transaction from yesterday. Filter to the previous calendar day and page through all results using the search cursor so nothing is missed. From that set, calculate the gross captured volume, the approval rate versus the decline rate, total refunds, and the top decline reasons ranked by count. Checkout.com returns amounts in the currency's minor units (for example 1000 means 10.00), so convert every figure to major units before reporting it and label the currency.

Then use Checkout.com's Get Disputes to list disputes and identify any new chargebacks opened against the account yesterday, filtering by status and date. Note the count and total value of any new disputes.

Compare yesterday's numbers against the prior day and the trailing 7-day average. Explicitly call out any spike in the decline rate or in new disputes so I can act before it gets expensive. If everything looks normal, say so briefly.

Write a short narrative summary, a few sentences plus the key figures rather than a raw data dump, and post it to Slack using Send a Message. Use Slack's mrkdwn formatting (single asterisks for bold), lead with the headline numbers, and put any decline or dispute spikes near the top so they are the first thing I see.