Checkout

Checkout creates a hosted payment page. You redirect the customer to its url, and IntaSend shows the payment methods enabled on your account for that currency.

Checkout is authenticated with your publishable key, so you can call it from your frontend or your server.

curl -X POST https://api.intasend.com/api/v1/checkout/ \
  -H "X-IntaSend-Public-API-Key: ISPubKey_test_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "amount": 1500,
    "currency": "KES",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "first_name": "Jane",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "phone_number": "254712345678",
    "api_ref": "order-123",
    "redirect_url": "https://example.com/thank-you"
  }'

{
  "id": "0b7d…",
  "url": "https://sandbox.intasend.com/checkout/0b7d…/express/",
  "signature": "eyJ…",
  "amount": 1500,
  "currency": "KES",
  "paid": false
}

Redirect the customer to url. After they pay, they are sent to redirect_url.

Request

Field	Required	Description
amount	Yes	Amount to charge
currency	No	KES (default), USD, EUR, GBP, UGX, TZS, RWF, CDF. UGX and TZS amounts must be between 500 and 5,000,000.
email, first_name, last_name, phone_number	No	Prefills the customer's details
country, address, city, state, zipcode	No	Billing address (card payments)
api_ref	No	Your reference (letters, numbers, -, _, : and spaces)
unique_api_ref	No	true returns the existing checkout for this api_ref instead of creating a new one
redirect_url	No	Where the customer goes after paying
wallet_id	No	Wallet to credit
host	No	Your site's URL

Methods shown

The page shows the methods enabled on your account:

Currency	Methods
KES	M-Pesa, card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PesaLink, crypto
USD / EUR / GBP	Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, crypto
UGX	MTN, Airtel
TZS	M-Pesa TZ, Tigo Pesa, Airtel, HaloPesa

Confirming payment

Don't treat a redirect to redirect_url as proof of payment. Instead, confirm with one of these:

• the collection_event webhook (recommended), or
• payment status using the invoice ID.