This repository provides a comprehensive demonstration of integrating with the Vodacom M-Pesa API, covering the crucial security and transaction stages required to successfully execute payments.
This project focuses on the core steps necessary for a successful M-Pesa integration:
🔒 1. Application Key Encryption
The initial step in securing your transactions is encrypting your application key.
- Encryption Stage: Demonstrates the logic for encrypting your Application Key using the publicly available Base64 public key string provided on the Vodacom M-Pesa developer portal.
- Security Focus: This crucial step ensures that your sensitive Application Key is protected before being sent to the M-Pesa service.
🔑 2. Get Session Key Implementation
Once the Application Key is secured, you can request a valid session key to authorize subsequent transactions.
- Session Key Retrieval: Includes the full implementation of the getSessionKey request.
- Authentication: Shows how to use your encrypted Application Key to obtain a temporary Session Key, which is required for all transaction requests.
💰 3. C2B (Customer to Business) Transaction Demo
The heart of the payment system—demonstrating how to initiate a transaction.
- C2B Transaction: Contains the full implementation of a Customer to Business (C2B) transaction request.
- Transaction Flow: Clearly shows how to use the retrieved Session Key to authorize and execute a mobile money payment.