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Flutterwave Transfers API

Disburse funds globally across bank account transfers, mobile money transfers, and wallet-to-wallet transfers spanning 30+ African countries plus US/UK/EU/Asia corridors. Manage transfer recipients, transfer senders (KYC for cross-border), and real-time FX conversion via the Rates endpoints.

Flutterwave Transfers API is one of 19 APIs that Flutterwave publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Payouts, Transfers, Remittance, FX, and Cross-Border. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 5 operations across 3 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 4.0.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.flutterwave.cloud/f4b/production, https://api.flutterwave.cloud/f4b/sandbox.

5 operations 3 paths 3 schemas 2 GET2 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
4.0.0
Base URL
https://api.flutterwave.cloud/f4b/production
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Flutterwave Transfers API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the clientCredentials flow. By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 5

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 2 GET, 2 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Transfers 5

Create, list, retrieve, update, retry, and duplicate payouts.

GET
/transfers
List Transfers
listTransfers 2 params → 200
POST
/transfers
Create A Transfer
createTransfer 1 param body → 201
GET
/transfers/{id}
Retrieve A Transfer
getTransfer 1 param → 200
PUT
/transfers/{id}
Update A Transfer
updateTransfer 1 param body → 200
POST
/transfers/{id}/retry
Retry Or Duplicate A Transfer
retryTransfer 2 params → 200

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Transfer (11 properties), TransferRequest (8 properties), TransferList (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TransferRequest
object
8 properties 2 required
TransferList
object
1 property
Transfer
object
11 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

flutterwave-transfers-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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