Verify a payment

curl --request GET \
  --url https://server.staging.vestrapay.app/v1/payment/verify/{reference} \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://server.staging.vestrapay.app/v1/payment/verify/{reference}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://server.staging.vestrapay.app/v1/payment/verify/{reference}"

headers = {"x-api-key": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://server.staging.vestrapay.app/v1/payment/verify/{reference}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "id": "uuid",
    "reference": "VPY_TXN_ACME001",
    "amount": "100.00",
    "total": "101.50",
    "amountSettled": "100.00",
    "currency": "NGN",
    "status": "success",
    "channel": "card",
    "fees": "1.50",
    "merchantBearsCost": false,
    "paidAt": "2026-05-10T14:30:00.000Z",
    "metadata": {
      "orderId": "ORD_12345"
    }
  }
}

{
  "status": "failed",
  "error": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}