This WordPress Plugin extends WordPress and WooCommerce functionality to integrate MPESA for making payments, remittances, checking account balance transaction status and reversals. It also adds Kenyan Counties to the WooCommerce states list.
Woocommerce Provides several Checkout options on your website (Direct Bank Transfer, Check payment, etc). This plugin will add mpesa as a checkout option.
The customer clicks Place Order buttom and gets Pop up asking them to confirm the payment by entering their PIN.
Since the Mpesa Payment Request is Assynchronous, there's a short delay before the payment results come in - and the plugin has provisions to process this.
Once payment is received, the plugin will update the order by adding the MPesa Receipt Number as an order note. A custom post is also created with all the payment details.
Easy Customization
Plug-n-play design with simple configuration in WordPress dashboard.
Convenient
Your customers no longer have to leave your site to make a payment.
Secure
This plugin interfaces directly with Safaricom's new Daraja API so you can be assured all your transactions are secure.
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Note: This is a WooCommerce based plugin, so the WooCommerce PlugIn must be activated.
- Upload the “M-Pesa WooCommerce STK” plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
- Then activate the plugin.
- Go to Mpesa > Configure and setup the necessary customizations.
- You need to create an app on Daraja.
- Your site must be running over SSL (https)
- Ensure you have access the Mpesa Web Portal
Setting up this plugin is pretty straight-forward. Just navigate to the WooCommerce settings page and follow the instructions there.
**NOTE:** We offer assistance with moving from Sandbox(test) to Live (production) at a flat fee of `KSH 6500/$65`This is one process which has had several people scratching their heads on the portal. It is the process which one uses to enable their application to carry out requests on the live API and begin processing client payments. For this process, you require at least the following two items already existing:
This is the shortcode which you received after you registered to use MPesa services.
These are admin users on your Mpesa Org portal who have the roles of either the Business Administrator or the Business Manager assigned to them. To confirm who this is, you can try to follow the steps below on the Mpesa Org Portal:
Log into the Mpesa Org portal using the shortcode which you shall use in the Go Live process using an admin user.
Check if you have the Browse Organization menu at the top of the screen. If not, you are not an admin, log out. If you have it, click on it.
Click on the Operators sub-menu on the bar that appears on the left of the screen
A list will appear showing all the users on your portal, and their roles. From this list, check on the Role column and see if anyone has the Business Administrator/Manager role on them. You can also click on the Operation icon at their far right on the list to see their profile and the complete list of roles assignable to them. That user with the Business Administrator/Manager role is the required one for the Go Live process.
Open the Business Administrator/Manager user’s details by clicking the Operation icon at the far right. Once there, click on the KYC tab and confirm that the following details are there:
- Identity Status is Active
- Preferred Contact Phone Number (starting with 2547XX)
- Notification Receiving MSISDN (starting with 2547XX)
- Notification Receiving E-Mail
- ID type and Number
After confirming the above details, you may start the process. On the first step of the Go Live process, you shall be required to download and fill in a form specifying how your tests went along. These cases consist of the possible scenarios which you shall encounter as you test your application. The test cases just need a simple Success or Fail response on the Actual Results tab. I doubt you will have a Fail on that file anyway
Once downloaded and filled, go back to the same Page and upload the form via the Upload Test Results form, click on Upload, then after the form has been picked up, check the Terms and Conditions checkbox, then click on Next.
On the Verification section, you shall need to confirm your ownership of the paybill you are taking live. This will require you to enter your paybill and your contact details, receive a One Time Pin (OTP) on your registered Mobile Phone, then put that OTP on the portal to confirm your authenticity. On that page, you shall select Verification type as Short Code (only one supported for now), Organization Name as the name of the Organization as registered on MPesa, your Organization ShortCode, and the username of either the Business Administrator or Business Manager as filled in on the Org Portal (that’s why I had you confirm the details exist first). Without either of these, the process will fail as there will be no contact phone to send you the OTP or the email to send the production URLs.
Once you click on Submit, and MPesa confirms the details you put as correct, it will send an OTP to the Phone Number registered on the Org Portal under the User whose username was filled on the verification form. Once you get the OTP on your phone (you might need a few retries), you shall fill it on the next section, the OTP Confirmation section. From the docs, the OTP has an expiry timeout of 3 minutes, thus you need to be fast, or you can just click on Resend OTP. Once the OTP has been confirmed, you shall then be given the chance to select the APIs you are applying for (note the limitations mentioed in the API Apps section). After completing the section, there shall also be created automatically the production apps for your account. These apps need to be approved internally, then after approval, you shall have the production URLs sent to the email registered against the same user who applied for Verification in step 2 of the process. You will then have the new Consumer Keys and Consumer Secrets for your app ready for use in production. More on this process can be found on the official site. For password creation, you can follow the steps given in this document.
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