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.

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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!

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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

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?

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Ndungi Kyalo

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