Django-Mpesa is a generic python library that interfaces the safaricom MPESA APIs to enable easy payments to your python application.

Detailed documentation is in the "docs" directory.

View the module from the official pypi site

1. Install the package with pip like this:

   pip install django-mpesa
   

2. Add "mpesa" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'mpesa',
   ]
   

3. Add Mpesa Config variables to your project's settings.py file

   MPESA_CONFIG = {

   ... 'CONSUMER_KEY': '<Your consumer key from daraja>', 'CONSUMER_SECRET': '<Your consumer secret from daraja>', 'HOST_NAME': '<Your hostname e.g https://myhostname>', 'PASS_KEY': '<Your pass key from daraja>', 'SAFARICOM_API': 'https://sandbox.safaricom.co.ke', 'SHORT_CODE': '174379'

   }

   Check below for full setting variables description

4. Include the polls URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

   from django.urls import path, include
   from mpesa.urls import mpesa_urls
   
   path('mpesa/', include(mpesa_urls)),
   

5. Run python manage.py migrate to create the mpesa models.

6. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

7. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/mpesa/ to checkout the library features.

This module exposes some API endpoints that enable you work with MPESA API

1. mpesa/submit/

   This endpoint allows you to submit a post request to initiate an STK push

2. mpesa/confirm/

   This endpoint is used as the callback endpoint on which MPESA will return a transaction response/status

3. mpesa/check-transaction/

   This endpoint allows you to manually check for the status of an mpesa transaction

Check out the test module for more elaborate examples