Pesepay is a payment gateway for Zimbabwe. One integration gives your application access to EcoCash, InnBucks, Omari, Zimswitch, PayGo and Visa/Mastercard, in US dollars and Zimbabwe dollars.
Every request and response that carries payment details is encrypted with AES-256-CBC using a key unique to your application. See the Encryption Guide for the full spec.
You initiate a transaction and redirect the customer to a hosted Pesepay payment page, where they choose a method and pay. Simplest to build — Pesepay’s page handles the payment method UI for you.
You collect the payment method and its required fields (for example a phone number for EcoCash) in your own UI and call make payment directly. More control, more UI to build.
Both flows return a referenceNumber you use to check status, and both can
notify your server automatically via the result callback
instead of you having to poll.
Set up an account and locate your integration key and encryption key.
Take a sandbox transaction end to end in about five minutes.
Decide which channels to support and what each one requires.
Work through the checklist before you switch to live keys.
Using an AI coding assistant? Read Building with AI tools first — it links machine-readable versions of these docs and gives you a prompt that keeps assistants from inventing Pesepay endpoints, fields and currency codes.
