Start a fee payment

• Authorizationstringheaderrequired

  Your secret key as a bearer token, in the form Bearer ks_live_sk_... or Bearer ks_test_sk_.... Keep it on your server. A test key gets the documented example and touches no school data.

• idempotency-keystringheader

  A key of your own that makes this write safe to retry: the same key returns the first response instead of writing again.

application/json

• amountinteger

• sessionIdinteger

• studentIdinteger

• callbackUrlstring

• paymentMethodIdinteger

200, application/json

• dataobjectrequired

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  • transactionReferencestringrequired

  • statusstringrequired

  • amountnumberrequired

    Major units of the school currency (naira for NGN), not kobo.

  • currencystringrequired

  • authorizationUrlstring or nullrequired

    The provider's hosted checkout (the payment link). Null once paid.

  • paidbooleanrequired

• metaobjectrequired

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  • request_idstringrequired

    Also returned in the X-Request-ID header.

  • paginationobject

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    • limitintegerrequired

      Required range: x <= 100

    • has_morebooleanrequired

    • next_cursorstring or nullrequired

      Send this back as cursor for the next page. Opaque: never parse it.

• 401invalid_api_keyNo key was presented, or the key is not valid.
• 402insufficient_balanceThe school's service wallet cannot cover this call.
• 403insufficient_scopeThe app does not hold the scope this endpoint needs.
• 404endpoint_not_exposedThis endpoint is not part of the API.
• 429rate_limitedThe rate limit was reached. Retry after the Retry-After header says.
• 503platform_unavailableThe API is not available for this school right now.

What each code means, and what to do about it, is in the errors guide.

This call can trigger payment.succeeded. See the webhooks guide for the payload and how to verify it.