Payouts

v1.0.3Sandbox ready

Pay customers, agents and suppliers from your float. Payouts are asynchronous: you get an id immediately and the result on your callback URL.

New in 1.0.3Bank payouts now return the receiving bank's reference in the callback.

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Authentication

Swap your keys for a token

Send your app's consumer key and secret to the token endpoint using HTTP Basic auth. You get a bearer token that lasts one hour. Send it in the Authorization header of every call.

Sandbox base URL https://devportal.softwaregroup.com/api/sandbox

Get keys for Payments

curl -X POST 'https://devportal.softwaregroup.com/api/sandbox/oauth/v1/token' \
  -u "$LANGO_KEY:$LANGO_SECRET" \
  -d 'grant_type=client_credentials'

Result by callbackMoves money

Send a payout

POST/payouts/v1/send

Moves money out of your float. Each reference can be used once.

Request body

amountintegerrequired: Whole currency units. In the sandbox, 1 triggers the low-float scenario.min 10
currencystringrequired: KES · TZS · UGX
destinationobjectrequired
typestringrequired: mobile · bank
phoneNumberstring: Required when type is mobile.
bankCodestring: Required when type is bank.
accountNumberstring: Required when type is bank.
referencestringrequired: Unique per payout. Reusing one returns 409.max length 32
reasonstring: Salary · Supplier · Refund · Commission · Other
callbackUrlurirequired

Responses

202Payout queued.Fields

202 body

payoutIdstring
statusstring: QUEUED

409The reference was already used.Fields

409 body

errorstring
messagestring
requestIdstring

Sandbox scenarios

Payout succeedsdefault

202 + callback

Float too lowamount = 1

202 + callback

Duplicate referencereference = "DUPLICATE"

409

curl -X POST 'https://devportal.softwaregroup.com/api/sandbox/payouts/v1/send' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LANGO_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "amount": 25000,
    "currency": "KES",
    "destination": {
      "type": "mobile",
      "phoneNumber": "254712345678"
    },
    "reference": "PAYRUN-0917-044",
    "reason": "Salary",
    "callbackUrl": "https://example.com/hooks/lango"
  }'

Try it in the sandboxno keys needed

POST/payouts/v1/send

{
  "amount": 25000,
  "currency": "KES",
  "destination": {
    "type": "mobile",
    "phoneNumber": "254712345678"
  },
  "reference": "PAYRUN-0917-044",
  "reason": "Salary",
  "callbackUrl": "https://example.com/hooks/lango"
}

Choose what happens

Check a payout

GET/payouts/v1/{payoutId}

Path parameters

payoutIdstringrequired

Responses

200Current state of the payout.Fields

200 body

payoutIdstring
statusstring: QUEUED · DELIVERED · FAILED
amountinteger
receiptstring

Sandbox scenarios

Delivereddefault

200

curl -X GET 'https://devportal.softwaregroup.com/api/sandbox/payouts/v1/pay_3n7c2q8d' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LANGO_TOKEN"

Try it in the sandboxno keys needed

GET/payouts/v1/pay_3n7c2q8d

Choose what happens