Payment Order Placement

Post a payment transaction on Smobilpay for e-commerce to initiate the payment process.

The payment order request contains information about the payment to be collected:

Items included in the order (for presentation to customer in the payment page)
Total amount requested from customer for payment (in XAF)
Language of customer (to present payment page in customer’s language)
Optional information for tracking and increased customer experience

URL	/api/order
HTTP method	POST

Request
Content-Type	application/json
Path Params	none
Query Params	none
Header Params	Authorization: Bearer <access token>
Body	OrderPlacementRequest - [JSON]

Example

Request

CODE

{
  "currency": "XAF",
  "customerName": "Che Devert",
  "description": "Order for electronics",
  "email": "maviance.akongnwi.devert@gmail.com",
  "expiryDate": "2018-11-25T14:47:03.597Z",
  "id": {
    "uuid": "45auf-dj76x-78dhg",
    "version": "V1.2"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "itemId": "12",
      "particulars": "Samsung Galaxy s6",
      "quantity": 2,
      "subTotal": 150000,
      "unitCost": 75000
    },
    {
      "itemId": "14",
      "particulars": "Sony TV HD12",
      "quantity": 1,
      "subTotal": 50000,
      "unitCost": 50000
    }
  ],
  "langKey": "en",
  "merchantReference": "abc123456",
  "orderDate": "2018-11-25T14:47:03.597Z",
  "phoneNumber": "+237653754334",
  "receiptUrl": "www.myshop.com",
  "totalAmount": 200000,
  "optRefOne": "myRef1",
  "optRefTwo": "myRef2"
}

Response

CODE

HTTP/1.1 201 Created 
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

{
  "orderTransactionId": "dc332ac8a45e452eb7543e059c586126",
  "merchantReferenceId": "abc123456",
  "redirectUrl": "https://payment.enkap.cm/payment/ui/auth?stxid=dc332ac8a45e452eb7543e059c586126"
}

Data Types

Input Data Types

Name	Type	Required	Maximum Length	Description
id	object	N		id of the transaction generated by your system
id.uuid	string	N		uuid of the transaction generated by your system
id.version	string	N		version of api used for this transaction
langKey	string	N, default: en	2	The language key used in the payment option portal. It corresponds to the ISO-2 language. Current supported language keys: en, fr
description	string	N	100	The description of the order.
totalAmount	Float	Y		The total amount of the order.
Email	string	N		Email of the customer.
phoneNumber	string	N		This is the contact/phone number of the customer placing the order.
customerName	string	N	50	The name of the customer.
currency	enum [XAF]	Y	3	The ISO-3 code of the currency
expiryDate	Date	N, default: 7 days		The date when the transaction will expire if the customer does not complete the payment. Date should be formatted based on ISO-8106 like "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000+0000"
orderDate	Date	N		The date of the order. Smobilpay for e-commerce will generate one automatically using current date and time if not provided.
merchantReference	string	Y	36	This is the merchants transaction reference which has to be unique for each transaction that is requested. This can be used to query the status of the transaction.
Items	List	N		Container for order items
itemId	string	N	36	The unique id of the purchased item.
particulars	string	N	50	Description of the item.
unitCost	Float	N		Cost per unit of the purchased item.
Quantity	Integer	N		Quantity purchased.
Subtotal	Float	N		The subtotal of the line of items.
receiptUrl	string	N		The URL where the customer can download or print the receipt after a successful payment.
optRefOne	string	N		Optional order reference
optRefTwo	string	N		Optional order reference

Output Data Types

Name	Type	Description
orderTransactionId	string	The tracking id of the transaction. This should be used for any query related API. For example, query the status of the payment.
merchantReferenceId	string	The unique reference id created by your system and provided in the request.
redirectUrl	string	The URL where to redirect the customer browser.