Verify customer
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({customer_id: '<string>', product_name: '<string>'})
};
fetch('https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));curl --request POST \
--url https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"customer_id": "<string>",
"product_name": "<string>"
}
'import requests
url = "https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification"
payload = {
"customer_id": "<string>",
"product_name": "<string>"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'customer_id' => '<string>',
'product_name' => '<string>'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}Verification
Verify customer
Confirm customer details before purchase.
POST
/
api
/
v2
/
verification
Verify customer
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({customer_id: '<string>', product_name: '<string>'})
};
fetch('https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));curl --request POST \
--url https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"customer_id": "<string>",
"product_name": "<string>"
}
'import requests
url = "https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification"
payload = {
"customer_id": "<string>",
"product_name": "<string>"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.datashop.africa/api/v2/verification",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'customer_id' => '<string>',
'product_name' => '<string>'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}Run validation before payment when a product requires it. The response confirms whether the identifier is recognized and may include the registered customer name for checkout confirmation.
For airtime and data, a temporary network-verification outage does not prevent purchase. In that case the endpoint returns:
Request body
string
required
Phone number, meter number, smartcard number, or customer identifier to verify.
string
required
Product selected from List products.
Request
{
"customer_id": "1234567890",
"product_name": "dstv-padi"
}
Successful response
{
"status": true,
"message": "Verification completed successfully.",
"data": {
"verified": true,
"customer_id": "1234567890",
"customer_name": "Umar Yahaya",
"provider": "DSTV"
}
}
Failed response
{
"status": false,
"message": "Error message"
}
{
"status": true,
"message": "Verification completed successfully.",
"data": {
"verified": false,
"skipped": true,
"reason": "temporarily_unavailable",
"customer_id": "08030000000"
}
}