Your first VALIDIF payment

1. 01

   Create your account

   Sign up, then open your company workspace. Every company only ever sees its own data.

2. 02

   Generate an API key

   Keys are created from your workspace. The secret value is shown once, at creation, and never stored in clear text.

3. 03

   Create a payment

   Call the payment intents endpoint with an idempotency key.

4. 04

   Receive the event

   Your endpoint receives the payment event; ingested events are also listed in your workspace with masked payloads.

Amounts are integers in the minor unit — 250000 is 2 500,00 XOF.

curl https://api.validif.com/v1/payment_intents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vl_sec_xxxxx" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: order_98231" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "amount": 250000,
    "currency": "XOF",
    "capture_method": "automatic"
  }'

Read Authentication, Payments and Webhooks, then check the Sandbox and Production pages.