Enabling Mpesa Customers using their own paybill

MPESA GOING LIVE

Pre-requisite

• You should have authorisation to login to the finaplus account at https://developer.safaricom.co.ke
• You should have access to the prefilled testcases of the APIs.
• The customer should have access to their MPESA Web Portal which is only accessed using a certificate Safaricom offers the customer.

Getting a MPESA Certificate

• You first send a blank email to M-PESACertpassword@safaricom.co.ke to get Authentication details required to log in to the Certificate Request Website.

• You will get an immediate response from safaricom with the certificate portal password.

• Then using Internet Explorer head to the Certificate Request Website https://vmtke.ca.vodafone.com/certsrv

• A more detailed step by step guide is below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQyBkJDsmuw

  
  
• With the Certificate you can access the live M-PESA Web Portal https://org.ke.m-pesa.com

Going Live

Log in to the Finaplus Daraja account and click on the Go Live option. Follow the process answering the questions with these notes:

• Request the following details from the customer:
  • MPESA User Name should be the username of a person with Business Manager Role
  • MPESA shortcode
• Upload filled Testcases from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UnADTzdoM4XwekB4yFZl73iZ5bJloFGb/view?usp=sharing.
• At the verification stage:
  • select Shortcode as Verification Type
  • the Organisation Name should be one word
  • the MPESA User Name should be the username of a person with Business Manager Role set on the MPESA Web Portal
  • The Business Manager will receive an OTP sms from safaricom to authorise the go-live, this code should be input within 2 minutes or else it will fail.