Getting started with Gara Pay
The Gara Pay API enables you to pay and get paid with mobile money in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Today Gara Pay covers 30 countries over the 54.
Gara Pay specializes in the cultural and creative industries in Africa.
In this documentation we explain integration using our APIs or using our Unity SDK.
Quickstart guide
To access the Gara Pay APIs, you must first create an account on the dashboard and get your access token.
Create a merchant account
Go to the Gara Console website and click on Create Account if you don't have one.
Fill in all the information, validate the OTP code and then create your merchant account.
Create an app template
Click on Distribute, then Distribue Game/App.
Fill in all the necessary information, then click on create.
Then upload the icon to recognize your application.
If your game/app is distributed in Gara, you must fill in all the information, the cover and the screenshots and deploy in production. Otherwise, just fill basic info and create the sheet to have an id.
Copy the game/app id
Once the page has been created, an identifier is generated. This identifier will be used for all queries.
Copy it from the home page, by clicking on the ID displayed.
Access your user profile
Click on the icon at the top right to access your user profile and click on Security then open Gara Token section. You can also access it from the menu on the left by clicking directly on Security.
Get your Access Token
Copy your access token and keep it in a secure place. You'll need it to access apis directly or via the unity SDK.
The token is in the form :
123456dff-ddddd-zzz-999de-1578derzsz
Your token is private. If we detect fraudulent access, the access token will be automatically revoked.
Ready to start the integration
At this stage, you should have an id for your game/app and an access token.