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Payment features

At Okra, we offer a variety of payment features that makes dealing with payments integration seamless in your projects.
The following are the payment features available at Okra;

Payment Links - Create a payment link from your dash with no-code and send it to any of your merchants to send payments with ease.
One-time payments - This allows you to simply receive a one-time payment from your customers.
Refunds - Make refunds to your customers with ease.
Payouts - Receive funds seamlessly into your account connected to Okra.

Payment objects

Field	Description
id `ObjectID`	Unique Auth ID (Unique Okra Identifier)
available_balance `Number`	Amount of available funds in the account
ledger_balance `Number`	The closing balance of the account
account `ObjectID`	Unique account ID (Unique Okra Identifier)
connected `Boolean`	Customer connection status (Did they choose to connect this account to you?)
customer `ObjectID`	Unique customer ID (Unique Okra Identifier) See Manage Customers ]
record `ObjectID`	Unique record ID (Unique Okra Identifier) See Records
owner `ObjectID`	Unique company ID (Unique Okra Identifier) ( Your Client Token)
env `String`	Okra API Env the Auth was pulled from `production` or `production-sandbox`
created_at `Date`	Date of Authentication
last_updated `Object`	Last date of Authentication

Payment status

While making a payment, technical issues can prevent your customer from paying and your API from receiving a response. Without this response, you may be unable to verify whether the payment has been processed or it's either canceled or completed.

This may cause you to attempt to cancel or refund the transaction, or risk a duplicate transaction.

Instead, your integration should request the payment status to verify whether the transaction is success, pending, initiated, cancelled, completed, error, review, success_pending_validation, failed.

Status messages

Status	Description
PENDING	The payment is submitted to Okra and is in the queue to be processed.
INITIATED	The payment is initiated.
ERROR	It occurs when there is a payment error from the bank or insufficient funds from the customer account. More information at error statuses.
SUCCESS	The payment is successful and responds with ANY success status code 2XX, like 200, or 201.
SUCCESS_PENDING_VALIDATION	The payment is successful but is pending settlement and validation.
CANCELLED	The payment is cancelled by the client or the API.
REVIEW	The payment has been reviewed.
FAILED	The payment was declined by the bank network or otherwise expired.

Check a payment status

Verify payments

This endpoint allows you to verify the status of a payment initiated

curl -X POST https://api.okra.ng/v2/pay/verify
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' 
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <secretKey>'
-d '{
    "payment_id":"PAYMENT ID"
}'

{
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Payment Status suceccefully retrieved!",
    "data": {
        "payment_status": {
            "_id": "5f88ebf63103d912f1d4baca",
            "amount": 10000, //kobo
            "currency": "NGN",
            "customer": "5f5b67748df30163f294f432",
            "link": {
                "_id": "5f824ed45f283033c424f530",
                "url": "https://dev-pay.okra.ng/wyred",
                "short_url": "wyred",
                "surl": "https://dev.okr.to/wyred"
            },
            "status": "completed",
            "response_status": "success"
        }
    }
}

Cancel payments

You can cancel a payment if you no longer intend to use it to collect payment from the customer. Canceling a payment is optional, and it’s okay to keep the payment in an incomplete status. Incomplete payments are useful in understanding your conversion rates.

Payment can only be canceled when it has one of the following statuses: initialized or
pending

curl -X POST https://api.okra.ng/v2/pay/cancel
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' 
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <secretKey>'
-d '{ 
		payment_id: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
	}'

A Payment can’t be canceled while it is actively processing or once it has succeeded.

When a Payment is canceled, you can no longer use it to perform additional charges. Any operations that your application attempts to perform on a canceled Payment will fail with API Errors.

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