Transactions

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Introduction

Transactions are funds movements that happened to your account. This includes Mobile Payments, Airtime Payments, Collections, Service Charges, Account Balance Funds Update.The transactions API allows you to list all these transactions.

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The transactions api endpoint is:

https://api.mfsafrica.com/api/transactions

The Transaction object

FieldTypeDescription
idlong integerUnique object identifier
accountlong integerThe ID of the account which this transaction belongs to
amountfloatThe transaction amount
descriptionstringThe payment description
createdstringThe date that the transaction was created, in the UTC timezone. Format: “YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ”
typestringThe transaction type. This can be admin_funds_update, mobile_funds_update, funds_deposit, funds_adjustment, mobile_collection, mobile_payment, airtime_topup, service_charge, mobile_withdrawal, bank_withdrawal
{
    "id": 218,
    "account": 12,
    "amount": "228.0000",
    "description": "Incoming payment from +401000000099",
    "created": "2017-03-28T12:50:59Z",
    "type": "mobile_collection"
}

Retrieving a Single Transaction

To retrieve a single transaction, provide the transaction id and a transaction object will be returned. Note, this is not currently available for transactions from cross border wallets.

Parameter (*required field)TypeDescription
id*Integer
Ex. 12		The id of the transaction you want to retrieve

Sample Request

curl https://api.mfsafrica.com/api/transactions/12 -H "Authorization: Token ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900"

package com.beyonic.samples;

import com.beyonic.exceptions.BeyonicException;
import com.beyonic.models.*;

Beyonic.API_KEY = "ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900";

String response = null;

try{
    response = new Transaction().get(123);
    System.out.println(response);
}
catch (Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
}

<?php
require_once('./lib/Beyonic.php');
Beyonic::setApiKey("ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900");

$transaction = Beyonic_Transaction::get(12);
?>

import beyonic
beyonic.api_key = 'ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900'

transaction = beyonic.Transaction.get(12)

require 'beyonic'
Beyonic.api_key = 'ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900'

transaction = Beyonic::Transaction.get(12)

Sample Response

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Note

Sample Response (JSON) - if you use one of the development libraries, this is automatically converted into a native object for you:

{
   "id": 12,
   "account": 123,
   "amount": "228.0000",
   "description": "Incoming payment from +401000000099",
   "created": "2017-03-28T12:50:59Z",
   "type": "mobile_collection"
}

Listing all transactions

To retrieve a list of all transactions, make a GET request to the transactions endpoint. This will return a list of transactions.

Sample Request

require 'beyonic'
Beyonic.api_key = 'ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900'

transactions = Beyonic::Transaction.list

package com.beyonic.samples;

import com.beyonic.exceptions.BeyonicException;
import com.beyonic.models.*;

Beyonic.API_KEY = "ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900";

String response = null;

try{
    response = new Transaction().list(null, null);
    System.out.println(response);
}
catch (Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
}

<?php
require_once('./lib/Beyonic.php');
Beyonic::setApiKey("ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900");

$transactions = Beyonic_Transaction::getAll();
?>

import beyonic
beyonic.api_key = 'ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900'

transactions = beyonic.Transaction.list()

require 'beyonic'
Beyonic.api_key = 'ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900'

transactions = Beyonic::Transaction.list

Sample Response

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Note

Sample Response (JSON) - if you use one of the development libraries, this is automatically converted into a native object for you:

{
  "count": 2,
  "next": "https://api.mfsafrica.com/api/transactions?limit=10&offset=10",
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 137,
      "account": 123,
      "amount": "2000.0000",
      "description": "Complementary Test Credit.",
      "created": "2016-12-09T11:16:30Z",
      "type": "admin_funds_transfer"
    },
    {
      "id": 160,
      "account": 123,
      "amount": "-600.0000",
      "description": "test msente",
      "created": "2017-02-13T12:01:38Z",
      "type": "mobile_payment"
    }
  ]
}

Filtering Transactions

You can search or filter transactions on the following fields. Simply add them to your request as shown in the examples. You can combine multiple filters. Note that filters return exact matches only.

  • account - the account id
  • type - the type of the transaction
  • created_after - only return transactions created after this date (E.g. 2017-01-01 00:00)
  • created_before - only return transactions created before this date (E.g. 2017-01-01 00:00)
  • start_date - the earliest date you want to include transactions from, inclusive (E.g. 2017-01-01 00:00)
  • end_date - the latest date you want to include transactions, inclusive (E.g. 2017-01-01 00:00)

Sample Request

curl https://api.mfsafrica.com/api/transactions?type=mobile_payment -H "Authorization: Token ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900"

package com.beyonic.samples;

import com.beyonic.exceptions.BeyonicException;
import com.beyonic.models.*;

Beyonic.API_KEY = "ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900";

String response = null;

try{
    HashMap<String, String> filterValues = new HashMap<>();
    filterValues.put("type", "mobile_payment");
    response = new Transaction().filter(filterValues, null);
    System.out.println(response);
}
catch (Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
}

<?php
require_once('./lib/Beyonic.php');
Beyonic::setApiKey("ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900");

$transactions = Beyonic_Transaction::getAll(array(
  "type" => "mobile_payment"
));
?>

import beyonic
beyonic.api_key = 'ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900'

transactions = beyonic.Transaction.list(type='mobile_payment')

require 'beyonic'
Beyonic.api_key = 'ab594c14986612f6167a975e1c369e71edab6900'

transactions = Beyonic::Transaction.list(
  type: 'mobile_payment'
)

Updated 6 months ago