pesajs

PesaJs

Goal

Simplify interactions with the official (horribly documented) M-PESA API.

Important: 🚧 Work in progress, NOT ready for use in production

Usage

$ npm install pesajs
 

• Online checkout (Lipa Na M-Pesa): According to Safaricom, this is a "Web service for integrating the M-Pesa Checkout API to a merchant site. The overall scope of this Web service is to provide primitives for application developers to handle checkout process in a simple way."

Initiate Lipa Na M-Pesa online payment

const PesaJs = require("pesajs");
 
let options = {
    merchant: "YOUR_MERCHANT_ID",
    passkey: "YOUR_PASSKEY",
    //debug: false || true
};
let paymentService = new PesaJs.LipaNaMpesa(options);
 
 
let cart = {
    transaction: MY_TRANSACTION_ID,
    ref: MY_REFERENCE,
    account: USER_MPESA_NUMBER,
    amount: AMOUNT,
    callbackUrl: MY_CALLBACK_URL,
    details: "Additional transaction details if any"
};
paymentService.requestPayment(cart).then(function(data) {
 
    // Now display M-Pesa message to user
    let msg = data.message;
    
    // Keep mpesa transaction id so you can use it to confirm transaction.
    let mpesa_txn = data.mpesa_txn
});
 

Confirm payment request

let params = {
    transaction: MY_TRANSACTION, 
    mpesa_txn: mpesa_txn
};
paymentService.confirmPayment(params).then(function(data) {
    
    // User should see a USSD menu on their phone at this point.
    // Now relax and wait for M-Pesa to notify you of the payment
 
});

Receive payment notification

// Wait for payment notification (example using express)
app.post("/ipn", paymentService.paymentNotification, function(req, res) {
    
    // Do whatever with payment info like confirm purchase, init shipping, send download link, etc.
    let paymentData = req.payment;
   
});
 

See the example app for a working demo.

• Paybill and Buygoods validation & confirmation: TODO

• Transaction Extracts: TODO

Contributing

1. Fork this repo and make changes in your own fork.
2. Commit your changes and push to your fork git push origin master
3. Create a new pull request and submit it back to the project.

Bugs & Issues

To report bugs (or any other issues), use the issues page.