USE CASE

How to take payments in a game

In a game, charge a player without leaving the session by using provider paynow-mobile with their phone number — the EcoCash, OneMoney, InnBucks or O'mari prompt is pushed to their handset and your game polls checkout status until it reads collected.

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The flow

Create: POST /v2/checkouts with provider paynow-mobile and the player's phone (EcoCash, OneMoney or InnBucks).
Wait: poll GET /v2/checkouts/<reference>/status — pending, collected or expired.
Grant: unlock the item when the status reads collected, or on your signed webhook.
Retry safely: reuse the same Idempotency-Key so a network retry cannot charge twice.

Questions

Does the player need to open a web page?

No. With paynow-mobile the prompt arrives on their handset, for EcoCash, OneMoney, InnBucks and O'mari wallets.

How do I avoid double-charging on a retry?

Send the same Idempotency-Key; the same checkout is returned.