Create Payment Requests Using FawryPay Reference Number
Learn how to create payment requests with FawryPay reference number.
Throughout this page, you will be guided to obtain a fully functional server to server integration. You will also learn how to use our pay with FawryPay reference number payment methods snd let your clients pay at any FawryPay POS.
1. Collect your client's payment details
Whenever your client is ready for checkout, you will need to present your own payment details form. This form should collect all payment details, i.e. preferred payment method , card details, and client's personal information. After collecting the required information, pass them to your server so your application can decide on the right Payment API to proceed with. For example, if the user choose to pay with his card, then, Pay with Card API is the right one to go with.
A sampleJSON Object that can be passed from your payment form to your server is provided below.
2. Make Payment with Reference Number
Depending on the payment method selected by your client, you may proceed with our pay with reference number API.
Charge Request using FawryPay Reference Number POST
This API can be used to generate a payment reference number for your client to use it for payment at any FawryPay POS retail stores which can be found almost everywhere in Egypt. In case you are still in development phase, you will need to call our API using POST at the following staging endpoint API point URL
Meanwhile, whenever you are ready for production, you should use the following production API endpoint URL instead
Detailed description of the parameters that you need to incorporate into your POST request are given in the table below.
| Parameter | type | required | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| merchantCode | String |
required | The merchant code provided by FawryPay team during the account setup. | |
| merchantRefNum | Integer |
required | The unique reference number for the charge request in merchant system. | |
| customerProfileId | Integer |
optional | The unique customer profile ID in merchant system. This can be the user ID. | |
| paymentMethod | String |
required | Payment Method: PayAtFawry. | |
| customerName | String |
optional | The customer name in merchant system. | |
| customerMobile | String |
required | The customer mobile in merchant system: 01xxxxxxx | |
| customerEmail | String |
required | The customer e-mail in merchant system: test@email.com | |
| amount | Decimal |
required | The charge amount: must in the form of xx.xx | |
| paymentExpiry | Timestamp |
optional | Use this element to set specific expiration time for the generated order. After this time, the received reference number shall expire and the client will not be able to pay using it. This element take value as timestamp or in the format of date in milliseconds, e.g. 1631138400000. | |
| description | String |
required | Item description. | |
| orderWebHookUrl | URL String |
optional | WebHook Url used to notify your application back end when an event happens in this order like order paid , expired or refund for more details about the request message please check Server To Server Notification V2 | |
| language | String |
required | Language: "ar-eg" - "en-gb". This key will control the language of the notification message to the customer | |
| chargeItems
|
||||
| itemId | String |
required | The ID for the charge item | |
| description | String |
required | Description of charge item. | |
| price | Decimal |
required | Price per unit charge item. | |
| quantity | Decimal |
required | Quantity of the charge items. | |
| signature | String |
required | The SHA-256 digested for the following concatenated string "merchantCode + merchantRefNum + customerProfileId + paymentMethod + amount (in two decimal format 10.00) + secureKey" | |
An example call of payment at FawryPay POS with an amount of 580.55EGP is given below.
function FawryPayAtFawry(transaction_data) {
const PaymentData = {
merchantCode: transaction_data.merchantCode,
customerName: transaction_data.customerName,
customerMobile : transaction_data.customerMobile,
customerEmail : transaction_data.customerEmail,
customerProfileId : transaction_data.customerProfileId,
merchantRefNum : transaction_data.merchantRefNum,
amount : transaction_data.amount,
paymentExpiry : transaction_data.paymentExpiry,
currencyCode : transaction_data.currencyCode,
language: transaction_data.language, // "en-gb" or "ar-eg"
chargeItems : [
{
itemId : transaction_data.chargeItems.itemId,
description : transaction_data.chargeItems.description,
price : transaction_data.chargeItems.price,
quantity : transaction_data.chargeItems.quantity
}
],
signature : transaction_data.signature ,
paymentMethod : 'PayAtFawry' ,
description : 'transaction description'
};
// Use fetch to send the Payment Data to FawryPay.
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch
const response = await fetch('https://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/charge', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify(PaymentData),
});
// Return and display the result of the charge.
return response.json();
}
$merchantCode = '1tSa6uxz2nTwlaAmt38enA==';
$merchantRefNum = '23124654641';
$merchant_cust_prof_id = '777777';
$payment_method = 'PayAtFawry';
$amount = '580.55';
$merchant_sec_key = '259af31fc2f74453b3a55739b21ae9ef'; // For the sake of demonstration
$signature = hash('sha256' , $merchantCode . $merchantRefNum . $merchant_cust_prof_id . $payment_method . $amount . $merchant_sec_key);
$httpClient = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(); // guzzle 6.3
$response = $httpClient->request('POST', 'https://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/charge', [
'headers' => [
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Accept' => 'application/json'
],
'body' => json_encode( [
'merchantCode' => $merchantCode,
'merchantRefNum' => $merchantRefNum,
'customerName' => 'Ahmed Ali',
'customerMobile' => '01234567891',
'customerEmail' => 'example@gmail.com',
'customerProfileId'=> '777777',
'amount' => '580.55',
'paymentExpiry' => 1631138400000,
'currencyCode' => 'EGP',
'language' => 'en-gb',
'chargeItems' => [
[
'itemId' => '897fa8e81be26df25db592e81c31c',
'description' => 'Item Description',
'price' => '580.55',
'quantity' => '1'
]
],
'signature' => $signature,
'paymentMethod' => $payment_method,
'description' => 'example description'
] , true)
]);
$response = json_decode($response->getBody()->getContents(), true);
$paymentStatus = $response['type']; // get response values
# importing the requests library
import requests
# importing Hash Library
import hashlib
# FawryPay Pay at Fawry API Endpoint
URL = "https://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/charge"
# Payment Data
merchantCode = '1tSa6uxz2nTwlaAmt38enA=='
merchantRefNum = '23124654641'
merchant_cust_prof_id = '777777'
payment_method = 'PayAtFawry'
amount = '580.55'
merchant_sec_key = '259af31fc2f74453b3a55739b21ae9ef' // For the sake of demonstration
signature = hashlib.sha256(merchantCode + merchantRefNum + merchant_cust_prof_id + payment_method + amount + merchant_sec_key).hexdigest()
# defining a params dict for the parameters to be sent to the API
PaymentData = {
'merchantCode' : merchantCode,
'merchantRefNum' : merchantRefNum,
'customerName' : 'Ahmed Ali',
'customerMobile' : '01234567891',
'customerEmail' : 'example@gmail.com',
'customerProfileId' : '777777',
'amount' : '580.55',
'paymentExpiry' : '1631138400000',
'currencyCode' : 'EGP',
'language' : 'en-gb',
'chargeItems' : {
'itemId' : '897fa8e81be26df25db592e81c31c',
'description' : 'Item Description',
'price' : '580.55',
'quantity' : '1'
},
'signature' : signature,
'paymentMethod' : payment_method,
'description': 'example description'
}
# sending post request and saving the response as response object
status_request = requests.post(url = URL, params = json.dumps(PaymentData))
# extracting data in json format
status_response = status_request.json()
// you Need to install sha256 and axios and import both inside js or by script tag
// sha256 from https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/js-sha256/0.9.0/sha256.min.js
//axios from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/axios/dist/axios.min.js
import { sha256 } from 'js-sha256';
import axios from 'axios';
function FawryPayAtFawry() {
let merchantCode = "1tSa6uxz2nTwlaAmt38enA==";
let merchantRefNum = "23124654641";
let merchant_cust_prof_id = "777777";
let payment_method = "PayAtFawry";
let amount = "580.55";
let merchant_sec_key = "259af31fc2f74453b3a55739b21ae9ef";
let signature_body = merchantCode.concat(merchantCode , merchantRefNum , merchant_cust_prof_id , payment_method , amount , merchant_sec_key);
let sha256 = new jsSHA('SHA-256', 'TEXT');
sha256.update(signature_body);
let hash_signature = sha256.getHash("HEX");
axios.post('https://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/charge', {
'merchantCode' : merchantCode,
'merchantRefNum' : merchantRefNum,
'customerName' : 'Ahmed Ali',
'customerMobile' : '01234567891',
'customerEmail' : 'example@gmail.com',
'customerProfileId' : '777777',
'amount' : '580.55',
'paymentExpiry' : '1631138400000',
'currencyCode' : 'EGP',
'language' : 'en-gb',
'chargeItems' : [{
'itemId' : '897fa8e81be26df25db592e81c31c',
'description' : 'Item Description',
'price' : '580.55',
'quantity' : '1'
}],
'signature' : hash_signature,
'paymentMethod' : payment_method,
'description': 'example description'
})
.then(response => {
// Get Response Contents
let type = response.data.type;
let paymentStatus = response.data.paymentStatus;
//
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error.response.data)
})
}
$ curl https://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/charge \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-X POST \
-d "{
"merchantCode" : "1tSa6uxz2nTwlaAmt38enA==",
"merchantRefNum" : "23124654641",
"customerName" : "Ahmed Ali",
"customerMobile" : "01234567891",
"customerEmail" : "example@gmail.com",
"customerProfileId" : "777777",
"amount" : 580.55,
"paymentExpiry" : "1631138400000",
"currencyCode" : "EGP",
"language" : "en-gb",
"chargeItems" : [{
"itemId" : "897fa8e81be26df25db592e81c31c",
"description" : "Item Description",
"price" : 580.55,
"quantity" : 1
}],
"signature" : "3f527d0209f4fa5e370caf46f66597c6a7c04580c827ca1f29927ec0d9215131",
"paymentMethod" : "PayAtFawry",
"description": "example description"
}"
URL url = new URL ("https://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/charge");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; utf-8");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
con.setDoOutput(true);
String jsonInputString = "{
"merchantCode" : "1tSa6uxz2nTwlaAmt38enA==",
"merchantRefNum" : "23124654641",
"customerName" : "Ahmed Ali",
"customerMobile" : "01234567891",
"customerEmail" : "example@gmail.com",
"customerProfileId" : "777777",
"amount" : 580.55,
"paymentExpiry" : 1631138400000,
"currencyCode" : "EGP",
"language" : "en-gb",
"chargeItems" : [{
"itemId" : "897fa8e81be26df25db592e81c31c",
"description" : "Item Description",
"price" : 580.55,
"quantity" : 1
}],
"signature" : "3f527d0209f4fa5e370caf46f66597c6a7c04580c827ca1f29927ec0d9215131",
"paymentMethod" : "PayAtFawry",
"description": "example description"
}";
try(OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream()) {
byte[] input = jsonInputString.getBytes("utf-8");
os.write(input, 0, input.length);
}
try(BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(), "utf-8"))) {
StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
String responseLine = null;
while ((responseLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(responseLine.trim());
}
System.out.println(response.toString());
}
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
namespace FawryPayRequest
{
public class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
PostJson("https://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/status", new fawrypay_request
{
merchantCode = "1tSa6uxz2nTwlaAmt38enA==",
merchantRefNum = "23124654641",
customerName = "Ahmed Ali",
customerMobile = "01234567891",
customerEmail = "example@gmail.com",
customerProfileId = "777777",
amount = 580.55,
paymentExpiry : 1631138400000,
currencyCode = "EGP",
language = "en-gb",
chargeItems = [{
itemId = "897fa8e81be26df25db592e81c31c",
description = "Item Description",
price = 580.55,
quantity = 1
}],
signature = "3f527d0209f4fa5e370caf46f66597c6a7c04580c827ca1f29927ec0d9215131",
paymentMethod = "PayAtFawry",
description = "example description"
});
}
private static void PostJson(string uri, fawrypay_request postParameters)
{
string postData = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(postParameters);
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(uri);
httpWebRequest.Method = "GET";
httpWebRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "text/json";
using (Stream requestStream = httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream())
{
requestStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Count());
}
var httpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse) httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
if (httpWebResponse.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
string message = String.Format("GET failed. Received HTTP {0}", httpWebResponse.StatusCode);
throw new ApplicationException(message);
}
}
}
public class fawrypay_request
{
public string merchantCode { get; set; }
public string merchantRefNum { get; set; }
public string signature { get; set; }
public string merchantCode { get; set; }
public string merchantRefNum { get; set; }
public string customerName { get; set; }
public string customerMobile { get; set; }
public string customerEmail { get; set; }
public string customerProfileId { get; set; }
public string amount { get; set; }
public string paymentExpiry { get; set; }
public string currencyCode { get; set; }
public string language { get; set; }
public ChargeItems chargeItems;
public string signature { get; set; }
public string paymentMethod { get; set; }
public string description { get; set; }
}
public class ChargeItems
{
public string itemId { get; set; }
public string description { get; set; }
public string price { get; set; }
public string quantity { get; set; }
}
}
Regardless of the choice of your preferred language, any of the code snippets above should produce an POST request containing the following JSON object in the request header:
Sample Request Data
{
"merchantCode": "1tSa6uxz2nTwlaAmt38enA==",
"customerName": "example",
"customerMobile": "01234567891",
"customerEmail": "example@gmail.com",
"customerProfileId": "777777",
"merchantRefNum": "2312465464",
"amount": "580.55",
"paymentExpiry" : "1631138400000",
"currencyCode": "EGP",
"language" : "en-gb",
"chargeItems": [
{
"itemId": "897fa8e81be26df25db592e81c31c",
"description": "Item Descriptoin",
"price": "580.55",
"quantity": "1"
}
],
"signature": "2ca4c078ab0d4c50ba90e31b3b0339d4d4ae5b32f97092dd9e9c07888c7eef36",
"paymentMethod": "PayAtFawry",
"description": "Example Description"
}
FawryPay Sample Response
Whenever you call FawryPay payment using pay-at-Fawry API, you may expect a response in the form of JSON object which contains all payment processing information.
Sample Pay-at-Fawry API Response
Response Parameters Description
| Arguments | type | Description | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| type | String |
Type of response. | ChargeResponse |
| referenceNumber | String |
FawryPay issued transaction reference number. | 963455678 |
| merchantRefNumber | String |
Merchant issued transaction reference number. This is the same as the reference number you have set in your charge request. | 9990d0642040 |
| orderAmount | Decimal |
Order amount in two decimal places format. | 20.00 |
| paymentAmount | Decimal |
The paid amount in two decimal places format. | 20.00 |
| fawryFees | Decimal |
The payment processing fees. | 1.00 |
| paymentMethod | String |
Payment Method Selected by your client. | 'CashOnDelivery', 'PayAtFawry', 'MWALLET', 'CARD' or 'VALU' |
| orderStatus | String |
Order Status. | PAID |
| paymentTime | Integer |
Timestamp to record when the payment has been processed. | 1607879720568 |
| customerMobile | String |
Customer Mobile Number. | 01234567891 |
| customerMail | String |
Customer E-mail address. | example@email.com |
| customerProfileId | String |
Customer Profile ID in the merchant's system. | 1212 |
| signature | String |
Response Signature generated as the SHA-256 of the following concatenated string (referenceNumber (if exist) + merchantRefNum + paymentAmount (in two decimal places format 10.00) + orderAmount (in two decimal places format 10.00) + orderStatus + paymentMethod + fawryFees (if exist) (in two decimal places format 10.00)) + shippingFees (if exist) (in two decimal places format 10.00)) + authNumber (if exists) + customerMail (if exist) + customerMobile (if exist) + secureKey) | 2df2943c6704176809ba6d559e2906b3d4df14916d6 |
| statusCode | String |
Response status code. | 200 |
| statusDescription | String |
Response status description. | Operation done successfully |
POSThttps://atfawry.fawrystaging.com/ECommerceWeb/Fawry/payments/chargeResponse
// API Response Data Should Appear here
// This is a sample successful Response
{
"type": "ChargeResponse",
"referenceNumber": "963455678",
"merchantRefNumber": "9990d0642040",
"orderAmount": 20.00,
"paymentAmount": 20.00,
"fawryFees": 1.00,
"paymentMethod": "PayAtFawry",
"orderStatus": "PENDING",
"paymentTime": 1607879720568,
"customerMobile": "01234567891",
"customerMail": "example@gmail.com",
"customerProfileId": "1212",
"signature": "b0ef178e2f06b215b18cfc7d82fb5d1f7b95dfcc91e33f8a6ce1e1251fdd04ec",
"statusCode": 200,
"statusDescription": "Operation done successfully"
}
3. Present Payment Result
After the client completes the payment and no further actions are
required on the front end or client app, use the stausCode to inform
the client about the payment status.
Error Handling
After submitting an API call to FawryPay, you receive a response back to inform you that your request was received and processed. A sample error response can be found below.
Depending on the HTTP status code of the response, you should build some logic to handle any errors that a request or the system may return. A list of possible potential error codes that you may receive can found below. For a full list of all possible error codes can be found in the Error Codes section.
| Error Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 200 | Operation done successfully. |
| 9901 | merchant code is blank or invalid. |
| 9938 | Order not found. |
| 9946 | Blank or invalid signature. |
| 9935 | Refunded amount greater than paid amount. |
| 9954 | Order is not paid |
Next steps
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