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Vodacom M-Pesa (DRC)

VODACOM_MPESA collects through Vodacom’s M-Pesa Open API for the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a customer-to-business request is pushed to the payer’s M-Pesa wallet, and the payer approves it on their handset. The backend country catalog offers it for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (CD) only.
This version has no credential form for Vodacom M-Pesa. The gateway appears in the country catalog, but Settings → Payments renders no fields for it, so there is no supported way to enter or verify its credentials.Do not select Vodacom M-Pesa for an account that is not already running on it. In DR Congo, PawaPay and Orange Money are both configurable today.If an existing account already runs on it, contact support before changing anything.

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What the integration needs

Documented for support and upgrade planning, not as an instruction to set these another way. Requests go to Vodacom’s production Open API host for DRC. There is no sandbox switch — a session key is fetched, encrypted with the public key, and used to authorize each request.

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How a payment would complete

1

Session

Centipid Billing fetches a session key and encrypts it with the configured public key.
2

Request

A customer-to-business payment is pushed to the payer’s normalized DRC M-Pesa number for the merchant code.
3

Authorization

The payer approves the prompt on their handset.
4

Confirmation

Vodacom’s response description is recorded against the transaction, and the payment settled from the outcome.

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Troubleshooting

For the gateways that are configurable today, see Payment gateways, and for their fields, the credential reference.