Rwanda mobile money

Flutterwave allows merchants to accept payments from customers in Rwanda using their mobile money wallets.

Let us show you how to accept payments using Rwanda mobile money.

Pre-requisites for accepting Rwanda mobile money payments.

Sign-up for an account here .
Set up a webhook to get notified on payments, to see more on webhooks visit the Webhook section.
When trying to accept payment on a website you can use our Flutterwave inline method and pass currency as RWF and type as mobile_money_rwanda, once you do this, the payment options for Rwanda mobile money will be enabled on your checkout page.
If you would prefer to accept payments using our APIs please see how to accept mobile money payments via APIs.
After getting a response for the transaction, call the Transaction verification endpoint to confirm the final status of the transaction.

Step 1 - Initiate payment

Send your payload to our charge endpoint: https://api.flutterwave.com/v3/charges?type=mobile_money_rwanda
Method: POST

{
   "tx_ref":"MC-158523s09v5050e8",
   "amount":"1500",
   "currency":"RWF",
   "network":"MTN",
   "email":"[email protected]",
   "phone_number":"054709922220",
   "fullname":"John Madakin"
}

Parameter Definition

Parameter	Required	Description
tx_ref	True	This is a transaction reference you supply to identify different transactions on your account. It is important to ensure that you pass unique references for every transaction.
amount	True	This is the amount to be charged. It is passed in RWF - ('amount':'100').
currency	True	This is the specified currency to charge in. (expected value: RWF)
email	True	This is the email address of the customer.
phone_number	True	This is the phone number linked to the customer's mobile money account.
client_ip	False	Internet Protocol. This represents the current IP address of the customer carrying out the transaction.
device_fingerprint	False	This is the fingerprint for the device being used. It can be generated using a library on whatever platform is being used.
meta	False	This is an object you can use to include any additional payment information you would like to associate with this charge
network	False	This is the customer's mobile money network provider. e.g MTN

Payment Response

When you send your payload to our charge endpoint to make a payment, you'll get a successful response if it all goes well.

{
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Charge initiated",
    "meta": {
        "authorization": {
            "redirect": "https://ravemodal-dev.herokuapp.com/captcha/verify/93:bc3bb122e3e9151361c910f619de0369",
            "mode": "redirect"
        }
    }
}

Step 2 - Redirect customer to the link returned in the charge call above

When we return the link in the response, you are required to redirect your customers to that link data.meta.authorization.redirect to complete the transaction on our modal.

On the link, your customers will be require to provide an OTP sent to their phone numbers for verification.

On test mode, the mock OTP is 123456

Step 3 - Get transaction notification

Once the transaction is completed, If you provided a redirect URL, the page will redirect to your redirect URL. If not, a webhook will be sent to your provisioned hook URLs.

Verify payment

After charging a customer successfully, you need to verify that the payment was successful with Flutterwave before giving value to your customer on your website.

Check our Transaction verification section for implementation instructions