Making a payment

Payment requests in Waza are regarded to as Orders. Payment involves you as a business paying your partners, suppliers or customers in their preferred currency using your local fiat currency provided both currency pairs are supported.

To make a payment using Waza's B2B global payment APIs you need to:

Create a beneficiary
Generate a quote

Payment Request Parameters

Below are the parameters required to initiate a payment using our B2B global payment APIs

Param	Required?	Description
beneficiary_id	Yes	The reference of the beneficiary that was returned by us when you created one.
amount	Yes	Amount (in the lowest currency value - kobo, cent, etc) you intend sending to the beneficiary.
currency	Yes	The currency the order is made in.
description	Yes	The order description.
client_reference	No	Your unique client reference.
metadata	No	Object containing any extra information you want recorded with the transaction.
quote_id	Yes	The ID gotten from generating a quote.

Example Request

A POST request should be made to our /orders endpoint

curl --location 'https://api.sandbox.waza.co/v2/orders' \
--header 'WAZA-X-KEY: {{API_KEY}}' \
--data '{
    "beneficiary_id" : "clh9bsjzt0046c0vo6hpw5v1n",
    "amount": 100000,
    "currency": "NGN",
    "description": "Test API Transfer",
    "client_reference": "exists",
    "metadata": {"extra": "test payment"},
    "quote_id": "723cb15e-9f52-450a-9407-d6fd9299a14d"
}

'

Example Response

A successful Order API call should return a similar response structure as seen below:

{
  "data": {
    "id": "16d91a42-8b39-4485-a84b-58bc461232e2",
    "client_reference": "exists",
    "amount": 100000,
    "currency": "NGN",
    "receive_amount": 174,
    "receive_currency": "USD",
    "beneficiary_id": "clh9bsjzt0046c0vo6hpw5v1n",
    "state": "pending",
    "metadata": {
      "extra": "test payment"
    },
    "fee_amount": 0,
    "fee_currency": "NGN",
    "rate": 0.00174044732325749,
    "description": "Test API Transfer",
    "destination": {
      "type": "business",
      "address": "Some address",
      "business_name": "My good business",
      "first_name": null,
      "last_name": null,
      "bank_name": "Test Bank",
      "bank_code": "044",
      "account_number": "11111434"
    },
    "timelines": {
      "payout_sent_date": null,
      "arrival_date": null
    }
  }
}