Glossary

Term

Meaning

PesaBridge Express

Prompt-to-pay (STK Push): you request, the customer confirms on their phone.

C2B

Customer-to-Business: the customer initiates a payment to your shortcode.

B2C

Business-to-Customer: a payout from a business account to a customer wallet.

charge

A single Express payment request, identified by charge_ref.

MSISDN

A phone number in full international format, 2547xxxxxxxx.

shortcode

Your collection account number (Pay Bill / Buy Goods till).

idempotency key

A unique string (idem) that makes a retry return the original result.

webhook

An HTTPS callback we POST to your server when something happens.

control profile

The regulator-grade limit set (per-txn/daily/monthly/balance) applied to an account.

access token

A 1-hour Bearer token from /oauth/token sent on every call.

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