Query Status With Your Reference

The endpoint described here allows you to query transaction status with the payment reference you provided at payment initialization.

Get Transaction Status

GET https://a1pay.net/api/query/statuswithmyreference

Get transaction status using your unique transaction reference

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
transactionRef	string	Your unique transaction reference
merchantId	string	Your Merchant ID provided to you at registration

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Hash	string	SHA256 .of Amount in two decimal places + MerchantId + SecretKey

200 JSON of status and data. data will carry transaction response object if call is successful, if not, it will carry a string representation of the error message. Even if status is success, always look out for the IsSuccessful property of the data object which must be true to show that the transaction is fully successful.

{
    "status": "success",
    "data": 
    {
      "AmountPaid": "100000.00",
      "FriendlyMessage": "Transaction completed successfully",
      "FurtherExplanation": null,
      "IsSuccessful": true,
      "PayerEmail": "[e-mail]",
      "PayerName": "SOLOMON GRUNDY",
      "PaymentReference_Local": "A1PAYREFERENCE",
      "PaymentReference_Switch": "SWITCHREFERENCE",
      "ResponseCode": "00",
      "ResponseDescription": "Approved By Financial Institution",
      "TransactionDate": "02/06/2018",
      "TransactionType": "School Fees"
    }
}

Always look out for the IsSuccessful property of the data object in the response. A status=success alone is not enough to determine that your transaction is successful

Its always a good practice to log all responses from A1Pay for future reference.