Initialize Card Payment

Developing

POST

https://devapi.collect.africa/payments/card/initialize

Last modified:2025-04-19 09:55:32

Request

Authorization

Provide your bearer token in the

Authorization

header when making requests to protected resources.

Example:

Authorization: Bearer ********************

Body Params application/json

Example

{
    "reference": "order_12345",
    "currency": "USD",
    "amount": 100.5,
    "callback_url": "https://example.com/callback",
    "card": {
        "number": "4111111111111111",
        "security_code": "123",
        "expiry": {
            "month": "12",
            "year": "2025"
        }
    },
    "customer": {
        "first_name": "John",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "email": "john.doe@example.com",
        "phone_number": "+1234567890"
    },
    "billing": {
        "city": "Lagos",
        "state": "Lagos State",
        "country": "Nigeria",
        "zip_code": "100001",
        "address1": "1234 Elm Street",
        "address2": "Apt 567"
    },
    "shipping": {
        "city": "Lagos",
        "state": "Lagos State",
        "country": "Nigeria",
        "zip_code": "100001",
        "address1": "1234 Elm Street",
        "address2": "Apt 567"
    },
    "auth_method": "3ds",
    "metadata": {}
}

Request samples

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

PHP

Python

HTTP

Objective-C

Ruby

OCaml

Dart

curl --location --request POST 'https://devapi.collect.africa/payments/card/initialize' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "reference": "order_12345",
    "currency": "USD",
    "amount": 100.5,
    "callback_url": "https://example.com/callback",
    "card": {
        "number": "4111111111111111",
        "security_code": "123",
        "expiry": {
            "month": "12",
            "year": "2025"
        }
    },
    "customer": {
        "first_name": "John",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "email": "john.doe@example.com",
        "phone_number": "+1234567890"
    },
    "billing": {
        "city": "Lagos",
        "state": "Lagos State",
        "country": "Nigeria",
        "zip_code": "100001",
        "address1": "1234 Elm Street",
        "address2": "Apt 567"
    },
    "shipping": {
        "city": "Lagos",
        "state": "Lagos State",
        "country": "Nigeria",
        "zip_code": "100001",
        "address1": "1234 Elm Street",
        "address2": "Apt 567"
    },
    "auth_method": "3ds",
    "metadata": {}
}'

Responses

🟢200OK

application/json

Card Payment Initialized

Body

Example

{
    "message": "string",
    "data": {
        "status": "string",
        "reference": "string",
        "next_action": {
            "type": "html",
            "value": "string"
        },
        "message": "string"
    }
}

🟢201Created

Modified at 2025-04-19 09:55:32

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