Well we can count more than three years since Safaricom released the M-Pesa APIs as RESTful APIs accessible through their developer portal. Their Github repository, has a sample android application that uses "Lipa na M-Pesa Online" API. This API initiates an M-Pesa transaction on behalf of the user of an app, the user needs only to input their M-Pesa PIN to complete the transaction.
public STKPushService mpesaService() {
return getRestAdapter().create(STKPushService.class);
}
Now is their something similar for AirtelMoney because I have clients who want to have all the mobile money payments we have in Kenya in their app. Its worrying that their is more of Mpesa than other apis? I am looking for a way to incorporate airtel money to my app like we do on Mpesa because we already have apps that support airtel money
POST https://sandbox.safaricom.co.ke/mpesa/stkpush/v1/processrequest
Has anyone tried this AirtelMoneyLib which I see was last updated 3 years ago.
<?php
/**
*
*/
require_once('config/Constant.php');
require_once('lib/AirtelMoney.php');
$airtelclient=new AirtelMoney;
//Call the processing function with parameters as shown
//You can do a retrieval of data from a request at this point
//Not advisable to pass the username and password in request. Rather use an environment variable for the same
/**
* $Username=$_POST['username'];
* $password=$_POST['password'];
* $msisdn=$_POST['msisdn'];
* $referenceId=$_POST['referenceId'];
* $timeFrom=$_POST['timeFrom'];
* $timeTo=$_POST['timeTo'];
*/
$referenceId="1601056579194";
$timeTo="";
$timeFrom="";
$airtelclient->processMerchantQuery(USERNAME,PASSWORD,$referenceId,MSISDN,REQUEST1,$timeTo,$timeFrom);
?>
I need to know a few things that are making it hard for me to even get some feedback when a http request is sent.
A recent google search pulled up new API called LIPISHA now kind off open source on github how the set back with it is that it comes with a huge price tag
That is why am trying to see how this old api can work for me
