Authorize Transaction - Afriex Business API

Afriex SDK

TypeScript

const transaction = await afriex.transactions.authorize("transaction-id", {
  type: "OTP",
  otp: "123456",
});

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/transaction/{transactionId}/authorize \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "type": "OTP",
  "otp": "123456"
}
'

Python

import requests

url = "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/transaction/{transactionId}/authorize"

payload = {
    "type": "OTP",
    "otp": "123456"
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Fetch API

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({type: 'OTP', otp: '123456'})
};

fetch('https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/transaction/{transactionId}/authorize', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/transaction/{transactionId}/authorize",
  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([
    'type' => 'OTP',
    'otp' => '123456'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
?>

Go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
    "net/http"
    "io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/transaction/{transactionId}/authorize"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"type\": \"OTP\",\n  \"otp\": \"123456\"\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
    req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/transaction/{transactionId}/authorize")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"type\": \"OTP\",\n  \"otp\": \"123456\"\n}")
  .asString();

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/transaction/{transactionId}/authorize")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"type\": \"OTP\",\n  \"otp\": \"123456\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response Example

{
  "data": {
    "status": "PROCESSING",
    "type": "DEPOSIT",
    "channel": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "sourceAmount": "10",
    "sourceCurrency": "USD",
    "destinationAmount": "14101.041",
    "destinationCurrency": "NGN",
    "customerId": "68e6717848e1f632e9686460",
    "transactionId": "69d3c79531c0234586ad5ee0",
    "meta": {
      "reference": "ref-deposit-001",
      "idempotencyKey": "idem-deposit-001"
    },
    "createdAt": "2026-04-06T14:47:49.166Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-04-06T14:49:02.110Z"
  }
}

Complete a transaction that was created in a CUSTOMER_ACTION_REQUIRED state and needs an extra authorization step, such as a one-time password (OTP) on a mobile-money deposit. The request body is discriminated by type; today the only supported variant is OTP. A deposit needs this step when the create-transaction response comes back with status CUSTOMER_ACTION_REQUIRED and meta.otpRequired set to true.

Testing in sandbox? Submit the OTP 123456 to complete the deposit. Any other value is rejected so you can test the wrong-OTP path. See Simulating OTP-required deposits for the full sandbox flow.

Authorizations

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