Kora Balances API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Kora (Korapay) Merchant Balances API
  description: 'The Kora merchant REST API for pan-African payments. It supports pay-ins (card, bank transfer, mobile money, pay-with-bank), payouts (single, bulk, remittance), NGN and USD virtual bank accounts, balances, refunds, multi-currency conversion, and payout utilities (bank / mobile-money lookups and account resolution). All requests are authenticated with API keys - a public key for client-side charge initiation and a secret key (Bearer) for server-side and financial operations - and each account has separate Test and Live mode keys. Card charge payloads must be AES-256 encrypted with your encryption key. Webhook notifications carry an `x-korapay-signature` header that is an HMAC SHA-256 of the response `data` object signed with your secret key.

    This document is a representative, grounded subset of the public Kora API. Request and response schemas are simplified; consult the Kora developer documentation for the authoritative field-level contract. Endpoints are confirmed against Kora''s published documentation except where a description notes an inferred path.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Kora Developer Support
    url: https://developers.korapay.com
    email: support@korapay.com
servers:
- url: https://api.korapay.com/merchant/api/v1
  description: Kora merchant API (Test and Live selected by the API key used)
security:
- secretKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Balances
  description: Real-time available and pending balances per currency.
paths:
  /balances:
    get:
      operationId: getBalances
      tags:
      - Balances
      summary: Retrieve balances
      description: Returns available and pending balances across all supported currencies (NGN by default, plus USD, GHS, KES, XAF, XOF, ZAR on multi-currency accounts). Requires secret key authentication.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Balances per currency.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BalancesResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  schemas:
    BalancesResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: boolean
        message:
          type: string
        data:
          type: object
          description: Map of currency code to balance object.
          additionalProperties:
            type: object
            properties:
              pending_balance:
                type: number
              available_balance:
                type: number
              issuing_balance:
                type: number
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: boolean
        message:
          type: string
        data:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
  securitySchemes:
    secretKeyAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Secret API key passed as `Authorization: Bearer sk_...`. Required for server-side and financial operations (payouts, balances, virtual bank accounts, refunds, conversions, charge verification). Test and Live modes use different keys.'
    publicKeyAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Public API key (`pk_...`) used from client-side code to initiate charges. Cannot access financial data.