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Zerocash documentation. Collect and disburse across Africa — one integration for charges, payouts and webhooks. Zerocash is connective financial infrastructure for businesses moving money across Africa. This documentation covers the two things the API does:

Charges

Collect money from your customers via mobile money, bank transfer, card, or OPay — across every market Zerocash supports.

Payouts

Send money to recipients’ mobile money wallets and bank accounts, with saved beneficiaries and cross-currency debits.

Base URL

Every endpoint in this documentation is served from a single host.
Requests are authenticated with a bearer token that you generate from your API key. See Authentication for the full flow.

Start here

1

Get your keys

Grab your public key and API key from the Developers → API Keys page of your dashboard.
2

Generate a bearer token

Exchange those keys for a short-lived bearer token, then send it as Authorization: Bearer <token> on every other request.
3

Move money in the sandbox

Run a charge and a payout against the sandbox with test credentials before you go live.
4

Listen for webhooks

Transactions settle asynchronously. Webhooks tell you the final status — never grant value on the initial API response alone.

Quickstart

Make your first charge and your first payout.

How the API is shaped

Charges and payouts both create a transaction with a transactionId. You attach your own externalReference at creation time, and you can look a transaction up later by either identifier through Get Transaction.
A 200 on a charge or payout means the request was accepted for processing, not that funds moved. The final outcome arrives by webhook or by polling the transaction. Treat only a terminal successful status as settlement.
Bank codes, mobile money operator codes, and country coverage change over time. Fetch them from the reference data endpoints rather than hard-coding them.
externalReference must be unique per transaction. Reusing one is how you avoid creating duplicate charges or payouts when a request is retried.

Get help

support@zerocash.tech

Reach the team for integration support, coverage questions, or production access.