Interswitch Quickstart

Integrating with Interswitch is straightforward with Payfonte and can be done in just a few steps.

The setup is as follows:

  • Requirements
  • Grab Your Interswitch Credentials
  • Set Credentials On Payfonte
  • Get Provider Webhook on Payfonte
  • Set Provider Webhook on Interswitch

Step 1. Requirements

Step 2. Grab Your Credentials

  • Grab the value for the Merchant Code, Pay Item ID, Client ID and Secret Key and head to your Payfonte account

Step 3. Set Credentials On Payfonte

  • In Payfonte, navigate to All Integration, Select Interswitch and Click on the add button and a modal should pop out.
  • Kindly enter the Merchant Code, Pay Item ID, Client ID and Secret Key copied from the interswitch platform and enter it here.
  • NB: If you want the webhook for interswitch payments to go elsewhere, add your webhook url the webhook field in the form above and save it.

Step 4. Get Provider Webhook

  • Navigate to The My Integration Section, click on "More Details" on the interswitch integration and you should see more details

  • Copy the "Provider Webhook URL"

Step 5. Set Provider Webhook on Interswitch

  • Back to Interswitch, navigate to Developer Tools -> Webhooks add the Provider Webhook URL to the Webhook URL field on interswitch and make sure you enable to following as seen in the image below:
  • Once the webhook is saved, make sure the Notification Enabled checkbox is enabled and all other sub-notifications are turned on.