Apparently Pesapal operates on the notion of pay all or nothing. I have always wondered how they deal with partial payments or whether they even support it. Solomon Kariri, Software Developer, Cell: +254721 956 172 Skype: solomonkariri On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Ndungi Kyalo via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Thanks Kelvin.
It would be great if someone from Pesapal would shed more light on this great product API as well. I would have wished for an API that simply returns how much has been paid for a transaction. Just that. The programmer knows best how to flag it.
Something as simple as :
{'tx' : 'ABC-123', 'amount':'2260.0', 'ref' : 'MPESACODE'}
If only wishes were horses!
-- Ndungi Kyalo
On 5 October 2016 at 10:08, Kelvin <kjayanoris@gmail.com> wrote:
As far as I know, there is now way of getting this from Pesapal via thei APIs.
Please see: http://developer.pesapal.com/how-to-integrate/api-reference
The closes you can get is thei "QueryPaymentDetails" method which only returns
- pesapal_transaction_tracking_id, - payment_method, - payment_status, - pesapal_merchant_reference
How I got around this in the past:
Notice that Pesapal returns "*pesapal_merchant_reference*" which was generated by your system and fed into Pesapal initially.
What I always do is to store the transaction details and then use this variable to query my own details once I get the IPN from Pesapal.
Unless someone from Pesapal corrects me, I believe you will never (as of right now) get back the MPESA reference or the reason for failure, if any.
One time I was parsing the excel file that you can get from Pesapal's dashboard to get a bit more information (the confirmation code / MPESA reference) - but I no longer think this is a good idea!
Kelvin *www.jayanoris.com <http://www.jayanoris.com>*
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Ken Muturi via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Watching ......
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Ndungi Kyalo via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Greetings Skunkers,
For those who know the Pesapal API inside out, is there a way to query :
1. the exact amount paid by a customer 2. the MPESA transaction/confirmation code 3. the reason for a FAILED status (for the purpose of informing the customer on the next appropriate steps to take to resolve the failure)
Currently I am only able to get status (COMPLETED|PENDING|FAILED|INVALID) and payment method. I think the other details (#1,#2,#3 above) are important to improve the customer's interaction with a system.
Anyone has this info?
-- Ndungi Kyalo
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