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Africa's Talking Payments API

Mobile C2B checkout, B2C, and B2B mobile money transfers.

Africa’s Talking Payments API is one of 6 APIs that Africa’s Talking publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Payments. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version version1.

Requests are made against 5 base URLs: https://api.africastalking.com/version1, https://api.sandbox.africastalking.com/version1, https://voice.africastalking.com, https://bundles.africastalking.com, https://payments.africastalking.com.

3 operations 3 paths 6 schemas 3 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
version1
Base URL
https://api.africastalking.com/version1
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Africa's Talking Payments API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as apiKey (apiKey). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKey — Africa's Talking API key generated from your account dashboard.

Paths & Operations 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Payments 3

Mobile C2B checkout, B2C, and B2B mobile money transfers.

POST
/mobile/checkout/request
Mobile C2B checkout
mobileCheckout body → 201
POST
/mobile/b2c/request
Mobile B2C payment
mobileB2C body → 201
POST
/mobile/b2b/request
Mobile B2B payment
mobileB2B body → 201

Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are MobileB2BRequest (9 properties), MobileCheckoutRequest (7 properties), MobileB2CResponse (4 properties), MobileB2BResponse (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

MobileB2CRequest
object
3 properties 3 required
MobileB2BResponse
object
4 properties
MobileB2BRequest
object
9 properties 8 required
MobileB2CResponse
object
4 properties
MobileCheckoutRequest
object
7 properties 5 required
MobileCheckoutResponse
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

africastalking-payments-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Africa's Talking publishes across the network.

Africa's Talking Airtime API
Africa's Talking Mobile Data API
Africa's Talking Premium SMS API
Africa's Talking SMS API
Africa's Talking Voice API
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