Security on M-Pesa and Proxy API

Here is a topic which, I think, everyone wants or needs to hear/read about, but few, if any, have touched on…. Security on M-Pesa and its APIs. Am pretty sure most owners of Safaricom Shortcodes want to know how to secure their M-Pesa accounts and Internal Systems against malicious access or API calls by either […]

Proxy API

So, we have been working on a neat piece of art, an API for M-Pesa, named Proxy API. And we are proud to announce it is ready! For quite some time, Developers have been trying (and mostly succeeding) in integrating with the First and Second generation M-Pesa APIs (G1 and G2 respectively). It was quite […]

Co-op Bank Kenya API

So The Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd. seems to have unveiled a developer portal and exposed quite a number of APIs to work with their back-ends. These include: Account Transactions Exchange Rate Internal Funds Transfer Pesalink Transaction Status Query Account Balance Account Transactions Check it out at https://developer.co-opbank.co.ke:9443/store/ Interesting times coming up… 🙂

#52WeekChallenge

There is a Challenge going around Local social circles (could be International) called the 52 Week Challenge. This challenge is a savings plan that seeks to motivate or encourage people to save a small amount each week, towards a final target at the end of the year. I have seen multiple variations of the challenge, […]

M-Pesa Portal Certificates

This article is no longer valid as certificates are now no longer needed to access the portal. One now needs to only have the nominated phone to receive OTP. Safaricom’s M-Pesa portal, located at https://org.ke.m-pesa.com, requires you to have a pre-installed certificate that identifies you as a “valid” entity. If you have tried accessing this […]