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M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Account Balance API

The Account Balance API from M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) — 1 operation(s) for account balance.

M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Account Balance API is one of 11 APIs that M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Account Balance. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.safaricom.co.ke, https://sandbox.safaricom.co.ke.

1 operations 1 paths 2 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.safaricom.co.ke
Authentication
HTTP Bearer, HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Account Balance API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (OAuth access token from /oauth/v1/generate) (bearerAuth). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Account Balance 1
POST
/mpesa/accountbalance/v1/query
Query the balance of a business shortcode.
accountBalance body → 200

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AccountBalanceRequest (8 properties), AsyncAckResponse (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

AccountBalanceRequest
object
8 properties
AsyncAckResponse
object
Synchronous acknowledgement; the real result is POSTed to ResultURL.
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

mpesa-account-balance-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) publishes across the network.

M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Authorization API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) B2B API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) B2C API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) C2B API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Dynamic QR API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) M-Pesa Express API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Reversal API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Standing Order API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Tax Remittance API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Transaction Status API
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