Kora Payouts API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Kora (Korapay) Merchant Balances Payouts 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: Payouts
  description: Disbursements to bank accounts and mobile money wallets.
paths:
  /transactions/disburse:
    post:
      operationId: createPayout
      tags:
      - Payouts
      summary: Request a single payout
      description: Disburses funds from your Kora balance to a single bank account or mobile money wallet. Kora notifies your application via webhook when the payout completes.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayoutInput'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The initiated payout.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayoutResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /transactions/disburse/bulk:
    post:
      operationId: createBulkPayout
      tags:
      - Payouts
      summary: Request a bulk payout
      description: Disburses to multiple destinations in a single batch (minimum 2 payouts). Supports NGN and ZAR bank accounts and KES and GHS mobile money. A webhook is sent after each individual payout in the batch completes.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/BulkPayoutInput'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The initiated bulk payout batch.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayoutResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /transactions/disburse/remittance:
    post:
      operationId: createRemittancePayout
      tags:
      - Payouts
      summary: Request a remittance payout
      description: Disburses a cross-border remittance payout to a supported destination.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayoutInput'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The initiated remittance payout.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayoutResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /payouts:
    get:
      operationId: listPayouts
      tags:
      - Payouts
      summary: Fetch payout history
      description: Retrieves all payout transactions made from your Kora account. Accepts your secret key as the authorization header and supports date-range and pagination query parameters.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/StartDate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EndDate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Page'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of payout transactions.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayoutList'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /payouts/availability:
    get:
      operationId: getPayoutAvailability
      tags:
      - Payouts
      summary: Check payout availability
      description: Returns whether payouts are currently available for a destination.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Payout availability status.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    PayoutList:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: boolean
        message:
          type: string
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: true
    PayoutInput:
      type: object
      required:
      - reference
      - amount
      - currency
      - destination
      properties:
        reference:
          type: string
        amount:
          type: number
        currency:
          type: string
          example: NGN
        merchant_bears_cost:
          type: boolean
          default: false
        narration:
          type: string
        destination:
          type: object
          description: The payout destination - bank account or mobile money details.
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
              enum:
              - bank_account
              - mobile_money
            amount:
              type: number
            currency:
              type: string
            bank_account:
              type: object
              properties:
                bank:
                  type: string
                account:
                  type: string
            customer:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Customer'
          additionalProperties: true
    Customer:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
    BulkPayoutInput:
      type: object
      required:
      - batch_reference
      - currency
      - payouts
      properties:
        batch_reference:
          type: string
          description: Unique reference for the batch (5-50 characters).
        description:
          type: string
        merchant_bears_cost:
          type: boolean
          default: false
        currency:
          type: string
          example: NGN
        payouts:
          type: array
          description: Between 2 and the batch maximum individual payouts.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayoutInput'
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: boolean
        message:
          type: string
        data:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
    PayoutResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: boolean
        message:
          type: string
        data:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
  parameters:
    Page:
      name: page
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Page number for pagination.
      schema:
        type: integer
    StartDate:
      name: start_date
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Start of the date range (ISO 8601).
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    EndDate:
      name: end_date
      in: query
      required: false
      description: End of the date range (ISO 8601).
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Number of records per page.
      schema:
        type: integer
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  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.