Payment Link

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This API is used to create a simple payment link. All calls to this end point is to be made using your secret key gotten from your dashboard.

Authorization Any request made without the authorization key (secret key) will fail with a 401 (Unauthorized) response code.

The authorization key is sent via the request header as Bearer Token Authorization

Example: Authorization: Bearer sandbox_sk_94f2b798466408ef4d19e848ee1a4d1a3e93f104046f

Sample Request

{
    "name": "Demo Otp Link",
    "hash": "mypaymentlink",
    "link_status": 1,
    "expire_by": "2023-04-26T11:22:08.587Z",
    "amounts": [
        {
            "amount": 4000,
            "currency_id": "NGN"
        }
    ],
    "description": "My description",
    "redirect_link": "https://fjfhgfd.com",
    "return_msg": "Successful"
}

Creating a Payment Link

This API creates a Simple Payment Link

POST https://sandbox-api-d.squadco.com/payment_link/otp

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
name*	String	Title/Name of the Payment Link
hash*	String	Unique string that identifies each payment Link (cannot exceed 255 characters)
link_status*	Integer	Value can be 0 or 1. 1 - Active, 0 - Inactive
expire_by*	String	sample: 2021-04-26T11:22:08.587Z
amount*	Integer	Amount must be in the lowest currency. (kobo for Naira transactions and cent for Dollar transaction) i.e 40000 = 400NGN
currency_id*	String	USD or NGN (USD - US Dollars & NGN - Nigerian Naira)
description*	String	This describes what the payment link does
redirect_link	String	URL to be redirected to after payment. When this is not provided, the default redirect URL set on your dashboard will be used
return_msg	String	Message to be displayed to the customer after payment via the link

200: OK Successful

{
    "status": 200,
    "success": true,
    "message": "Success",
    "data": {
        "name": "Demo Otp Link",
        "link_type": "otp",
        "hash": "mypaymentlink",
        "description": "My description",
        "currencies": null,
        "redirect_link": "https://squadco.com",
        "return_msg": "Successful",
        "support_email": null,
        "support_phone": null,
        "terms_condition": null,
        "return_policy": null,
        "pickup_location": null,
        "expire_by": "2021-04-26T11:22:08.587Z",
        "merchant_id": "SBN1EBZEQ8",
        "link_status": 0,
        "extra": null,
        "createdAt": "2022-08-08T09:24:41.269Z",
        "updatedAt": "2022-08-08T09:24:41.269Z",
        "archivedAt": null,
        "image_id": null,
        "image": null,
        "amounts": [
            {
                "amount": 4000,
                "currency_id": "NGN"
            }
        ]
    }
}

400: Bad Request Bad Request

401: Unauthorized Unauthorized

Generating the Link

The payment link is a concatenation of the base URL: https://sandbox-pay.squadco.com/ and the hash selected when creating the payment link For instance, if the hash is mypaymentlink then the payment link will be https://sandbox-pay.squadco.com/mypaymentlink

GO LIVE - Production

To create payment link on production:

1. kindly change the base URL of the endpoint from sandbox-api-d.squadco.com to api-d.squadco.com

2. get production keys from your production environment on dashboard.squadco.com

3. On production, the base URL for concatenation of the payment link needs to be changed from sandbox-pay.checkout.squadco.com/hash to pay.checkout.squadco.co/hash