/instantly

Instant Mobile Money Payments API

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Instantly

Mobile money API client built on top of BROKER. Yh the name is misleading becuase mobile money transfers have never been that instant. I believe we will get there soon.

Motivation

I have been building apps that need mobile money integration and I realise I will probably be doing a lot of repetitive work all the time. Instantly hopes to solve that problem for me and for you too. One API for all my mobile money integrations built on top of SMSGH's BROKER

Documentation

You, yes you, are a developer who is building the NBA (Next Big App) and the app needs to integrate with mobile money payments in Ghana, then use Instantly. First register on Unity, get your client_id and client_secret from Unity and go to Broker, create a wallet and go to token to retrieve your wallet token.

Running

You need postgres and go installed on your system to get this running:

Manual

  • Clone the project to your $GOPATH
  • Install the dependencies
  • Run
$ git clone https://github.com/ngenerio/instantly

Create a config.yaml in the root directory of this project. Specify the configuration as the example below:

SERVER_ENV: development # development or production
UNITY_CLIENT_ID: xxxxxxxx # Your unity client ID from SMSGH
UNITY_CLIENT_SECRET: xxxxxxxx # Your unity client secret from SMSGH
BROKER_TOKEN: xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxx # Your broker token from broker
BROKER_SENDER: Instantly # Your app name
BROKER_CALLBACK_URL: https://<host>:/api/v1/payment/callback # Specify host as the url this app has been hosted at
BROKER_BASE_URL: https://api.smsgh.com/usp # Don't touch this
DB_NAME: postgres # Database name: either `postgres` or `mysql`
DB_PATH: user=<username> password=<password> host=<host> dbname=<somedb> sslmode=disable # Your database connection url
MIGRATIONS_DIR: db # Don't touch this
REDIS_URL: localhost:6379
REDIS_PASSWORD:

Create a dbconf.yml in the db folder and specify the configuration:

development:
    driver: postgres
    open: user=<username> password=<password> host=<host> dbname=<somedb_Test> sslmode=disable

production:
    driver: postgres
    open: user=<username> password=<password> host=<host> dbname=<somedb> sslmode=disable

Run these commands to install, build and run:

$ glide install
$ make build
$ ./instantly

Awesome Instant API Endpoints

This is the data you need to send to Instantly:

{
    "phoneNumber": "2332xxxxxxxx",
    "amount": 50.00,
    "mno": "TIGO",
    "name": "Eugene Asiedu",
    "type": "debit"
}
Parameters
  • phoneNumber - the phone number of the individual
  • amount - the account to be debited or credited
  • mno - the mobile network operator
  • name - the name of the individual
  • type - either debit or credit

The payment endpoint is http://host:port/api/v1/payment. Send the your the token you get after registering in the headers as:

X-Api-Key:

$ curl -H "X-Api-Key: <Your API Token>" -X POST -d '{"phoneNumber":"2332xxxxxxxx","amount":50.00,"mno":"TIGO","name":"Eugene Asiedu","type":"debit"}' http://<host>:<port>/api/v1/payment