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Workflow infrastructure / Payments

Payments & M-PESA Integration

Payment integration work focused on reliability, reconciliation, and a smoother customer checkout. Used inside custom systems and operations dashboards alike.

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Common use cases

Where this infrastructure usually shows up

Retail checkout

Product catalogue, M-PESA STK push, card option, order status, receipt, and failed-payment handling.

Service deposits and invoices

Quote approval, deposit request, payment confirmation, invoice status, and follow-up reminders.

Fees, subscriptions, or account payments

Customer account, amount due, payment attempt, reconciliation against a ledger, and reporting for the finance owner.

What we wire in

Capabilities included

  • M-PESA STK Push, PayBill, and Buy Goods integration
  • Card payments via Stripe and Paystack
  • PayPal and international gateways
  • Mobile money: Airtel Money, SasaPay
  • Reconciliation, refunds, and reporting
  • PCI-aware integration patterns

End-to-end flow

How this looks in production

A typical flow when this infrastructure is wired in correctly.

1

Customer action

The customer checks out, pays an invoice, clears a balance, or confirms a deposit.

2

Provider request

The system sends the right request to M-PESA, Paystack, Stripe, PayPal, or another approved provider.

3

Webhook and status

The provider sends back payment status, errors, transaction references, and settlement details where available.

4

System record

The order, booking, invoice, ledger, or customer account is updated so the team does not reconcile manually.

5

Customer update

The customer receives the right confirmation by page state, email, WhatsApp, or SMS depending on the journey.

Buyer checks

What to clarify before we build

A short, specific brief avoids vague discovery and gives you a useful first scope conversation.

  • Which payment methods are essential now, and which can wait?

  • Who owns provider accounts, settlement, reversals, and disputes?

  • Where should transaction references and payment status be stored?

  • What happens when STK push fails, expires, or is paid late?

  • What reports does finance need each day or month?

Where this fits

This infrastructure is most useful inside one of these solution pillars.

Custom Systems - checkout and self-service payments Operations Systems - reconciliation, fee ledgers, and finance dashboards

Buyer questions

Questions that usually come up

Do you provide the M-PESA account?

Usually the business owns the provider account. We help with integration requirements, callback URLs, testing, and the system logic around the account.

Is payment integration only checkout?

No. The valuable part is often reconciliation, payment status, receipts, refunds, reporting, and what the team sees after a customer pays.

Get payments wired in

Tell us what the workflow needs and we will point at the right setup, timeline, and budget range.

  • Free 30-minute planning call
  • Setup and integration plan
  • Long-term reliability and reporting