Changelog

You can now see all MNO related incidents that affect your merchant account directly from the pawaPay portal. More information can be found in our portal documentation.

Improved the accuracy of payment failure reasons for Airtel Tanzania and Orange Senegal.

You can now sign your financial requests to pawaPay to add a second layer of security in case your API token should ever leak. Read more about it from our API docs.

You can now enable signatures for callbacks sent by pawaPay. You can then verify those signatures to ensure the payload has not been tampered with and assure they were sent by pawaPay. Read more about it from our API docs.

Orange Burkina Faso is now available for merchants.

We have enhanced user security in the pawaPay portal by introducing new options. You can now enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for added protection, or require your users to use Google Authentication for secure access. For detailed instructions on how to implement these features, please refer to our portal documentation.

Fixed an issue where in some cases timestamps in statements were not following the same format.

Resolved a problem where Airtel DRC confirms a payment to be failed even though it can later turn out to be successful.

The 'reason' column of your statements is now populated with the 'statementDescription' of the payment for deposits, payouts and refunds.

Improved the accuracy of payment failure reasons for Orange Cameroon and Airtel DRC.

Moov Burkina Faso is now available for merchants.

You can now add metadata to your payments. This metadata is searchable in the portal helping you find the right payment based on information relevant to you. Read more about how to add metadata from our API docs.

Improved the accuracy of payment failure reasons for MTN Uganda, Airtel Uganda and Airtel Zambia.

Greatly improved the speed of which financial statements are generated.

Merchants are now able to access historical financial data of their wallets even if they do not have an active integration.

Vodafone in Ghana has been rebranded to Telecel.

Improved the accuracy of payment failure reasons for Orange DRC and Vodacom DRC.

As Vodacom TZA introduced callbacks for failed payments, now more than 98% of payments are processed within 60 seconds.

Improved the accuracy of payment failure reasons for MTN integrations in Benin, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia.

Improved the accuracy of payment failure reasons for Airtel Uganda and Airtel Malawi.

Merchants are now able to query their wallet balances via our API. Read more in our API documentation.

Fixed the issue caused by an unannounced change made by AT Ghana where they changed the format of their callbacks and removed all information about failure reasons. The new callback format is now handled and failure reasons are fetched through a separate API call ensuring payments are processed quickly and accurately.

Batch disbursements are no longer available if merchants do not have a payout flow configured.

Default end time for date-time selectors in search pages is now set to midnight local time.

Sierra Leone is now available for merchants.

More descriptive labels for transactions on your statements.

Uganda is now available for merchants.

Payment requests are now rejected with a specific error, when using an incorrect amount of decimals for an MNO (correspondent) in the amount.

The pawaPay portal now has a fresh new visual design.

Resolved an issue in our portal's calendar component where selecting multiple dates in succession could cause it to become unresponsive, requiring a page refresh.

Improvements to payment processing speed for Airtel Zambia

Improvements to the reconciliation engine

Various internal improvements.

Improvements to the reconciliation engine.

You can now revoke API tokens directly from the portal.

Fixed the issue of showing callbacks as not delivered when callbacks have not been configured.

Improvements to the sign in experience.

Fixed the issue of freshly created wallets not being immediately shown in the portal.

Improved the accuracy of payment failure reasons for Orange DRC.

You can now use the predict-correspondent endpoint in our Merchant API to predict the correspondent (the MNO) for a phone number.

Improvements to the signup experience on mobile devices.

Improvements to the reconciliation engine.

Improvements for the reconciliation engine.

Improvements to the signup process.

Improved logging for specific failure cases.

Improvements for the reconciliation engine.

You can now use the pawaPay Payment Page for a low code solution to collect payments. Learn more.

You can now sign up for a sandbox account directly from pawapay.io.

Improved performance metrics for MNO integrations.

Improvements for the reconciliation engine.

Improved failure scenarios for Airtel DRC when testing in our sandbox environment.

Improvements for the reconciliation engine

Improvements for the reconciliation engine.

Improved logging for rejected payments.

Improvements for the reconciliation engine.